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RAW file

Usually when you take a picture the camera will process the data captured by the sensor into an image file. More advanced cameras can save the image in its unprocessed state – a RAW file – so that you can do the processing yourself later on your computer.

10 myths about RAW files – and why they’re wrong

October 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Almost any photographic expert will tell you that you should shoot RAW files not JPEGs, and that RAW files are innately superior. The trouble with this kind of wisdom is that it’s repeated and passed on without question.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Workflow Tagged With: 14-bit RAW, JPEG vs RAW, RAW file, RAW processing, RAW+JPEG

White balance tips: 12 ways to control and use white balance more effectively

July 26, 2020 by Rod Lawton

White balance sounds a pretty simple image adjustment, but there’s a little more to it than meets the eye. Here are 12 white balance tips that might help you get the results you want and explain what’s gone wrong if you don’t.

Filed Under: Featured, General Tagged With: Color temperature, RAW file, RAW processing, Temperature (white balance), Tint (white balance), White balance, White balance presets

Dynamic range and exposure

June 1, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Dynamic range is the camera sensor’s ability to capture detail in very bright and very dark parts of a scene. Cameras (or sensors) with a low dynamic range record dark shadows as a solid black or bright highlights as a featureless white.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Dynamic range, Exposure latitude, Exposure value (EV), HDR, Histogram, JPEG vs RAW, RAW file

RAW vs JPEG: things you can do with RAW files that you can’t do with JPEGs

May 15, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Most serious photographers prefer RAW files to JPEGs. They take more time and storage, but the payback is greater quality and flexibility. It’s not a one-sided argument – JPEGs have some advantages which are obvious, and some which are not – but here are six important reasons why RAW files are the way to go […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 14-bit RAW, Adobe Camera Raw, JPEG, JPEG vs RAW, RAW file, RAW processing, RAW+JPEG

How to manage Lightroom RAW+JPEG pairs

November 19, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom RAW+JPEG pairs

Yesterday I looked at how Aperture handled RAW+JPEG pairs and today it’s the turn of Lightroom (now Lightroom Classic). At first glance it looks as if Lightroom RAW+JPEG pairs work in much the same way, but there is in fact a significant difference: Aperture imports both and lets you choose which one to display; Lightroom […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Organising, RAW file, RAW+JPEG

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