 Right, so Apple just released iOS 14.3 recently and alongside that was the ability to now take photos using Apple Pro RAW. Currently it's only available for the 12 Pro and the 12 Pro Max models. I have the 12 Pro so I'll be taking some pictures using this. To update and enable this, first you need to update your phone to iOS 14.3. Then you go into settings, you scroll down into camera, the first option in the list is formats, so you select that and you'll see at the bottom there, photo capture, Apple Pro RAW, just enable this and turn that on. So then you open up your camera, you'll see on the top right hand corner, you'll see RAW is currently disabled. If you tap that it will be enabled and then you can start taking pictures using Apple Pro RAW. Just to let you know this is only available on photo mode for both back and front cameras. You can't use it on portrait mode or any other mode. Now if you're new to photography in layman's terms, a RAW photo is an unprocessed image taken directly from the sensor of your camera lens without all of the additional software processing that's layered on top of it to make your images more exposed, more vibrant, more sharp, leaving you with less flexibility to make color grading adjustments yourself. An Apple Pro RAW image however is slightly different to other standard RAW images whereby they still add a small amount of processing for rendering HDR, deep fusion or night mode on top of the photos. The format of the images will be the .dng standardized format of RAW image data. The good thing is is that most photo editing applications accept importing of this file type to make adjustments. So once you're done you can export to JPEG and then share it to all of your social media. So now let's take a look at some sample RAW pictures that I've taken using my iPhone 12 Pro and edit it using Adobe Lightroom. Alright guys, the first step is to transfer the RAW images from your iPhone to your computer. So the way I do that is I currently use iCal Photos. All I have to do is select the RAW ones which I know are the second ones of each image I've taken here. I will just select them like so and then when you go to export make sure you don't export them as just a general export. They will be transferred as JPEGs. You need to do export unmodified originals and that will transfer the .dng files to your MacBook. So once you've done that you can export it and save it to a folder. Now just before I start to edit any of the raw images here's a side by side comparison of one of them. The left hand side is the non-raw picture and the one on the right hand side is the .dng RAW file. So you can see it's a bit darker, it's more dull and I'll have more flexibility to brighten it myself, make it more vibrant, make the red in the car color pop a little bit more. So I just wanted to showcase to you guys the difference between the non-raw and the RAW files and I'll be showcasing a whole bunch of examples after I've edited this one specifically. So the first thing you will need to do is go into an editing application. There's many out there that you can use. For example purposes I will use Adobe Lightroom. I'll go into my raw images and I will load my .dng file. So here I will take my first one and I will add that to the library and start playing around with editing it. So as you can see it's pretty dull. I'm going to play around with the exposure. You can change the contrast. Now the reason you would do this is so that you as a photographer would have so much more flexibility in making the images stand out in the way you want it to rather than the way the iPhone 12 Pro will process it for you with. So that's great to have as well and this does take time but you can copy your edits in every picture and then make relevant adjustments. So I'm just going to make some examples here. There you go. Once you're ready all you can do is export and generally I would export the raw files as JPEGs so that it's easier for me to share in various different locations. So I will now export this as a edited version of the raw image. There we go and that's the end to end process. It's very straightforward from taking a raw image on your phone, transferring it, editing it and then exporting it ready to use elsewhere. So it's pretty straightforward but if you have a whole host of images to do then it might take some time but for the most part if you are going to be using editing applications to do this then this is the process. So here's some examples of me taking a lot of images and I'm going to compare that with the raw image file and the edited raw image file using Adobe Lightroom. So let's go ahead and take a look at a few more examples. So that was the tutorial guys. My final thoughts why would you want to use raw images? In all honesty as a beginner unless you're really interested in manually editing or color grading your photos then using raw images would be great for you but for the most part the standard photos will do a good enough job to give you a great looking photo with the inbuilt software processing for your iPhone 12 Pro or 12 Pro Max. Raw images on their own will look bland and basic and they're generally made specifically for photographers who want to gain the flexibility for a better post editing experience. So that's it guys. If this was useful make sure you hit that like button. Make sure to subscribe for more useful iPhone tutorials I have coming out in the near future and I will catch you guys next time. Take care.