Using unprocessed raw camera files takes more work than shooting JPGs, but it also gives you better images and far more control in the editing stage. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more ...

The RAW photo format has been around for a long time, but perhaps you have never heard of it. Since at least the early 2000’s, professional photographers have used it as a way to get the highest level ...

In this post, we will discuss what is an ARW file and how to view it on Windows 11/10 PC. ARW stands for Sony Alpha Raw and is a RAW image file format. This file format is specially used by Sony ...

At some point in everyone’s photographic journey, most people will ask: what is a RAW file? In my early days as a novice photographer I was easily frustrated by common mistakes, like the wrong white ...

Now when I put a RAW photo file from my Oly 8080 on the desktop it shows a preview icon of the image instead of blank document icon, assuming you have your desktop or folder prefs set to show previews ...

I have been working on a comparison of Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture for Macworld, and I ran into an issue with both programs when I tried to import Raw image files that had been ...

Professional photographers have long used the RAW format and editing software to turn image files into gorgeous pictures — and you can, too. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer, whose first camera ...

I always shoot raw. For me, the advantages of shooting raw image files have long outweighed any of the issues sometimes associated with working with the file type, like limited storage. But even if ...