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Processing older images in a newer RAW processor

Processing older images in a newer RAW processor

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Processing older images in a newer RAW processor

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- If you've watched my course on shooting in raw mode, you know that when you shoot raw with your camera, you get this file full of fairly abstract data, and that data has to be processed into a finished color image. When you're shooting jpeg mode on your camera, that processing stuff happens in camera. When you're shooting raw mode, you use something like Lightroom, or Photoshop, or any number of other pieces of software to do that raw conversion. Now, one of the great things about raw photography, in addition to the wide balance control, and the exposure recovery, and the greater bit depth, and all of that stuff, is that the raw file itself is never altered, no matter what you do. No matter how many edits you make, none of those edits actually affect the original raw file, because the original raw file is just raw data. It's been converted into this other thing that you edit first. Now what's nice about having that…

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