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Determining your working file format

Determining your working file format - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Determining your working file format

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- As you choose to work with images, there's really a big dividing line between two types of file formats. You might find that you're working with JPEG or HEIC files that are captured by a smartphone or a traditional camera or you have the option to work with DNG files or RAW files. Smartphones can capture DNG files, sometimes using specialty apps. And most DSLRs and mirrorless cameras can capture RAW files. While these files are really quite similar in many ways, they both have pictures, they both have details, they are hugely different in that the RAW file captures a lot more information. RAW files are often substantially bigger, but it gives you a lot more flexibility. Let me show you how we can see this. Let's switch to an album here for the UAE. And in this particular image I see the tags here on the files giving me a bit of detail. I notice that some of these are labeled RW2 which are RAW files. And that's…

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