From the course: iPhone and iPad Photography with iOS 14

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Edit raw photos

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- [Instructor] If you have an iPhone 12 Pro or a 12 Pro Max, iOS 14 now supports RAW capture in the native camera app. I covered how to activate the Apple ProRAW format earlier in the course in the chapter on using the camera app. Let's take a look at where you'll see the most benefit from capturing in RAW, and that is when you edit your photos. As I mentioned earlier, the main superpower of a RAW file is that it has so much more tonal information about the scene. A 12 bit Apple ProRAW file can contain over 4,000 possible tonal levels, from the very darkest shadows, to the brightest highlights. By contrast, a JPEG can only contain a maximum of 256 levels. Here's the type of scene where photographing in RAW can help you once you began to process the file. This was shot in the bright mid-afternoon sun. There's high contrast with very dark shadow areas, and bright highlights. I adjusted the exposure when I took this photo,…

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