Unlocking the secrets of RAW

I just recently last Wednesday evening, nope... It was Tuesday. I did a shoot with a coworker of mine and the Murray Pool. His name is Parker. I told him I wanted to try something new and shoot in RAW, he understood the idea very little but enough that he knew it was a bigger file then JPEG which indeed, it is VERY much bigger. After I got home and got the images on the computer I couldn't view them and I was confused. Although I never can view the images on the computer because the files are to big for the video card I have, so that's why I move them over to my external hard drive and view them on my MAC so I figured it wasn't to big of a problem. Once I had them on my Hard Drive I ran down stairs excited to see the results of my shoot, but once I plugged it in. I Still couldn't view them... Thoughts going through my mind "Oh no what will I do???!?!" "Shoot, how am I gonna show him how they look?!" "Crap.." So I frantically started to search the internet for the reason why I couldn't view these images... Nothing was helping me and I was desperate for an answer! I finally came upon a website that I had viewed a couple times and click a couple of the links. One of the links sent me to this adobe page that would allow me to download files that would help me to be able to view them if I had photo shop CS6 but since I use CS2 that didn't help at all. I went back to that page of links (Forum) and I had the feeling to scroll down to the bottom of the page, so I did so and I saw someone say if you had a T2i you need to look at this page, so I clicked the link excitedly thinking maybe I had my solution! I looked at all the updates looking for my camera and Finally I found it! I downloaded a program called Adobe DNG converter 5.7 and it converts my Canon Rebel T2i RAW images to a DNG image, then I can edit them on Photoshop and get my image to a JPEG and output my sources online for everyone to see! :) I did it ALL by myself and I feel great! Now, here is a Before and After shot to show you all what my edit looked like before and after with RAW! :)