One of the great things about shooting in digital is being able to see if you captured your priceless images--not having to wait a week or two for them to come back from processing. The other great thing is you have the choice with the higher end digitals to shoot in the RAW format--which allows you to produce sharp prints when you enlarge pictures to 24 x 36 or more.
You can find the definitions and full descriptions about RAW on the internet or on your camera's website. This blog will talk about working with large files and being able to "see" them in your photo program. Adobe has a great plugin on their website if you are using CS2 or earlier. It works just fine once you download it into the directory that holds all the plugins.
But I needed a browser that was easy to use and would show a preview that was big enough to really scrutinize the picture. When you are working with 8gig cards you end up with hundreds of pictures in RAW and they can routinely be upwards of 30 mb each when you shoot in this format. I have a nice computer but it is 4 years old and even with dual processing, it is not fast enough a lot of the time when I am working with such large files. I went out on the internet and found a couple of nice programs--one of which I will talk about now.
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