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Help with changing image dimensions!!

Started May 27, 2021 | Questions
RiptonDubai New Member • Posts: 1
Help with changing image dimensions!!

Hi all, I'm very much a novice with a camera but am taking some shots at a sporting event and I'm having some issues with image quality.

I have the camera set on highest image quality, which is Raw 6000x4000, yet when I view the images in Photoshop they're only shooting at a much smaller size (2400x1200), so the quality/resolution isn't great! I can't figure out why they're not being shot in the dimensions listed, am I missing something?

The camera is a Canon EOS 200D. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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Canon EOS Rebel SL2 (EOS 200D / Kiss X9)
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seri_art
seri_art Veteran Member • Posts: 3,063
Re: Help with changing image dimensions!!

I don't use Photoshop on RAW files, but I'll take a guess that you're seeing the built-in JPG which is that smaller size. To see the image full size, you need to convert the RAW file. Photoshop can do that (but I can't tell you how) as well as other RAW converters.

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AshleyMC Senior Member • Posts: 2,228
Re: Help with changing image dimensions!!

Welcome to the forum.

Canon 200D / SL2 User Manual, page 128

View your JPG images (on the SD card, or copied from the SD card to the hard drive) with any photo viewer program on your favourite operating system and you can verify that their dimension is indeed 6000 x 4000 pixels.

Note that the JPG image embedded in each Raw file is a reduced version (for reference) of the high-quality JPG image that is created by the firmware at the same time according to your B setting above.

Put differently, if you have used the B setting then, for each exposure (click) you make, the camera firmware creates two files: a Raw file and a high-quality JPG file. The JPG file is for immediate use. The CR2 Raw file is for post processing.

Michael Fryd
Michael Fryd Forum Pro • Posts: 16,059
Re: Help with changing image dimensions!!

RiptonDubai wrote:

Hi all, I'm very much a novice with a camera but am taking some shots at a sporting event and I'm having some issues with image quality.

I have the camera set on highest image quality, which is Raw 6000x4000, yet when I view the images in Photoshop they're only shooting at a much smaller size (2400x1200), so the quality/resolution isn't great! I can't figure out why they're not being shot in the dimensions listed, am I missing something?

The camera is a Canon EOS 200D. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Photoshop allows you to process the raw data into a lower resolution image. It's possible that you have selected the option for Photoshop to resize the image.  However 2,400 x 1,200 is a 2:1 aspect ratio, and the raw image has a 2:3 aspect ratio.  So something else may be going on here.

ˇhe camera does off the option of "S2" sized JPEGs. Available dimension for S2 include 2,400x1600 and 2,400x1344 (depending on selected aspect ratio).   None of these are a match for 2,400x1,200

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