![]() If I try to recover some of the detail using the Highlights slider in the jpeg in Lightroom, I’m really not getting much improvement. By nature, a jpeg file captures a much lower number of levels of brightness than a Raw file. ![]() In the jpeg photo there is not very much detail in the highlight areas of these clouds. Here are the originals of both photos – jpeg on the left and Raw on the right. We’ll look at 2 photos shot at the same time - one in jpeg format and one in Raw. The advantages of Raw become clear once you edit your photos in Lightroom on a computer or mobile device. Every camera is different of course, but on most cameras there is a setting such as Image Quality where you can choose Raw as your capture format. Whether you use a point and shoot, a DSLR, or even some Android Smart Phones – you can choose Raw as the format for shooting photos. ![]() Raw gives you so much more creative flexibility in your photography and your editing in Lightroom: including a greater opportunity to fix exposure and recover detail, particularly in highlight areas, as in the clouds in this scene, and the ability to easily change white balance, as in this sunset. One of the choices we face when taking photos is deciding between shooting in raw or jpeg format. ![]()
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