A JPEG is a pre-packaged meal, while a RAW photo is a fridge full of ingredients. Learning when to use each will help you master your camera's capabilities.

Nevertheless, there are a few reasons to consider letting your camera do the Raw-to-JPEG conversion for you. In the first place, all Raw files require some processing on the computer—maybe not ...

The basic Raw conversion tools supported by Camera Raw in Adobe's popular Photoshop Elements image editor enable digital photographers to make a wide range of adjustments to image files. However, some ...

If you have a DSLR or mirrorless camera, you may want to start using RAW images instead of JPEG files. Here's what you need to know about using the higher-quality images in Photos on macOS.

Rather than letting the camera itself process the image for you (turning it into a JPEG image), shooting in RAW allows you as the photographer to process the image to your liking.

Using unprocessed raw camera files takes more work than shooting JPGs, but it also gives you better images and far more control in the editing stage.

During raw processing, which I do in Adobe Camera Raw, I clean up each exposure and make any adjustments that will benefit the image (which is the topic that would require several articles to ...

Image is opened in the browser. Camera Raw is an uncompressed native file format particular to each camera, unlike universal compressed formats such as JPEG, GIF, and PNG.

White balance The colors produced by the camera’s internal JPEG processing are often somewhat different to those you see in RAW software. Is this ‘color science’?