thats not really how it works. with raw you can tweak the photo before its converted to jpg file and since raw format is lossless you can adjust it more without lowering the iq before turning it to jpg that has slight loss of information, but the information loss of jpg is something you cant see unless you start editing it. for example jpg loses info you cant see on dark and light tones(from each color channel) that arent visible on the picture, but you can bring that info you cant see on on raw editing and you cant get the info if its compressed to jpg on camera(or on photoshop after raw conversion)

when camera makes the editing(for white balance contrast etc) it does them for the raw file and compresses the picture into jpg. camera doing the raw conversion is like poor automated editing for the picture, when you shoot raw the camera doesent compress the picture and you can make edits manually on photoshop(or other raw converter) without any loss of quality.

3 versions, bw / lowsaturated / highsaturated





This post was edited by Nevereon on Feb 28 2010 09:36am

Not exactly in a vase, but they are roses.





I have 10.2 MP versions of both photos if you decide that you want one of them. 10.2 MB is more then enough for the size you want.

I haven't had a chance to take a picture so far but I'll try with an old one. 10.2 mp. Raw version available. \



This post was edited by onepagememory on Feb 28 2010 02:12pm

do you have a rose color preference? i can probably pick some up and give this a shot

also:
do you want it to be a happier picture
or a more sad/dismal/emo style photo?

This post was edited by xbaun on Feb 28 2010 08:00pm

sure that's not a carnation??