Overview
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Learn to shoot raw. Explore the image-quality benefits and workflow considerations of shooting in your camera's raw format mode.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Introduction to raw mode
- Exploring whether your camera supports raw
- Understanding the primary colors of light
- Exploring how a digital sensor captures an image
- Understanding how an image sensor sees color
- What is a digital photo?
- Processing basic color
- Correcting and compressing a JPEG
- Exploring how JPEG compression works
- Customizing JPEG compression
- Understanding raw conversion software
- Getting under the hood of your raw converter
- Exploring nondestructive editing
- Working with raw files in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop
- Exploring white balance and highlight recovery
- Understanding when to shoot raw or JPEG or both
- Understanding in-camera JPEG conversions
- Exposing raw images
- Reprocessing old raw images
- Understanding Foveon sensors
- Evaluating RAW, mRAW, and sRAW
- Choosing a camera
- Exploring next steps
