Shooting RAW vs JPEG - Easy 1 minute tip to improve your photo

[WindowsVista562]

@fulltunes The camera's JPEGs are lower quality.

[fulltunes]

still i do not fully see the point in shooting raw when all these adjustments as well as editing in camera raw can actually be done with a jpeg file too.

can someone explain that to me? ;)

[ztb8888]

What if you do the exact same thing that you did with the jpeg in photoshop?

[DGundam90]

Thank you so much been looking for editing like this for very long time. what kind editing will you call this? Can you show how you do it in lighroom if possible.

I also want to know if you could help me I'm thing of buying a m6 want to know different between normal and ttl, and I wear glasses do you thing .75 will be fine or should I get .58?

thank you

[Entropy56]

Actually, your demo didn't exactly address the benefit of raw, because you could have edited the JPG just the same. You would have to edit the JPG and demonstrate how it could not achieve the same results side by side.

I know there is some degradation when resaving a JPG but that should be part of the discussion. One edit and one save of a JPG is not a deal breaker.

[YumyumArx18]

i have a question please answer... whats the difference between editing a raw vs jpeg? isn't it the same thing? coz i can also edit my jpeg files just like what you did in your raw files...

[Philscbx]

@YumyumArx18

jPeg straight out of camera, it's stripped of 9/10's of the information.

RAW is all the data recorded to the card to play with.

Image file size difference to hard drive is easy to see.

RAW maybe 5MB, jPeg about 500K. That's a lot of data missing.

Processing/adjusting RAW image never messes with original.

It's just instructions, and then makes a new image.

You can re-edit RAW image a 100 times w/o worry.

jPeg will be destroyed the more it's played with.

Give it a shot.

[jdtx1]

Great video Steve, you should do more of these. I learn a lot especially since I don't know how to use Photoshop

[stevehuff1969]

@jdtx1 Ill be doing many more in 2012. Thanks!

[86BBUB]

Good primer!



[CRANKYONE100]

Thanks for tips Steve - as a newbie to the art of digital imagery, I cant get enough info at the moment. More of these quick ezi tips would be awesome! So quick question on RAW post processing:- by shooting RAW, does that mean your processing app is going to give you more image editing options?(you couldn't have done the same changes to the jpeg??)

[80M83R]

@CRANKYONE100 That's right, by shooting RAW you are retaining every bit of data the sensor produced for the image, it hasn't been compressed into JPEG form. This means that colours are more tolerant to editing so will effectively lose less detail when being changed.