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Understanding JPEG profiles in raw processing

Understanding JPEG profiles in raw processing

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Understanding JPEG profiles in raw processing

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- Buried deep in your camera's menus maybe something called picture styles or picture controls or film emulation, something like that. If you're a JPEG shooter these are image processing operations that your camera applies to your image when you shoot to change contrast or saturation or sharpness or make the image look more like it was shot with a specific type of film. If you're a raw shooter then these settings have no impact on your final shot. This week on the Practicing Photographer we're gonna look at a way that you can get that functionality back into your raw workflow if you're missing it from JPEG. So we spend a lot of time saying, oh, you've got to shoot raw, it's much better than JPEG. Why would I be wanting to bring back some JPEG functionality into my raw workflow? If you've played at all with picture styles or picture controls, whatever your camera calls them, you may have found that they produce better…

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