Editing RAW photos

No, I am not talking about raw meat.

RAW photos are unprocessed images that contain the raw image data captured by your digital camera’s sensor. JPEG images are immediately compressed, but raw images are saved with more room to adjust all the settings seen in the video and more. Professional photographers prefer to shoot in RAW mode instead of jpeg to have more control of the photo editing process.

Photoshop RAW Editor comes directly with the purchase of Photoshop, so it is a handy tool to have if you’d like to do some convenient editing.

Some downsides to shooting in RAW mode:

• RAW images take up more storage than the compressed jpegs
• Some image viewing programs might not recognize RAW files