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.

Fortunately, I was shooting Raw + JPEG at that moment. This is the best version I got from processing the Raw file myself in Adobe Lightroom 3. A year after I took the photo, ...

At some point in everyone’s photographic journey, most people will ask: what is a RAW file? In my early days as a novice photographer I was easily frustrated by common mistakes, like the wrong white ...

JPEG vs Raw Files When you capture JPEG files, the camera’s microprocessor converts the raw image data into RGB pixel values (a process known as demosaicing) then applies white balance, saturation, ...

Especially when using the Fujifilm GFX system, where RAW file sizes are huge, I began questioning the need. So I did something I never thought I would: I started shooting in JPEG, and not just ...

Another difference between RAW and JPEG is bit-depth. JPEGs offer 8-bits of red, green, and blue color information per pixel. That’s still 16 million colors but pales in comparison to RAW’s up ...

I still believe shooting RAW is the way to go for most photographers – just don’t fall into the ‘I’ll fix it in post’ trap like me ...

Photos identifies raw+JPEG images with a special marker: a J reversed out of a white box with a shadow box behind it. To split the file, it’s this simple: Select one or more images.

Two years ago, Google introduced the first true mobile RAW photo support in the form of a new camera API that debuted alongside Android 5.0 Lollipop. Much like the RAW photo capabilities of more ...

Last week we published 36 sample images taken with the new Olympus E-P3 compact system camera in Large SuperFine JPEG+RAW format. So far neither Olympus nor any of the major third-party software ...