Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode

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Free Online Course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode is taught by Ben Long.

Overview
  • Learn to shoot raw. Explore the image-quality benefits and workflow considerations of shooting in your camera's raw format mode.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Introduction to raw mode
    1. Camera Sensors and Image Capture
    • 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?
    2. How Your Camera Makes a JPEG
    • Processing basic color
    • Correcting and compressing a JPEG
    • Exploring how JPEG compression works
    • Customizing JPEG compression
    3. Understanding the Raw Format
    • 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
    4. Understanding Image Formats and Processing
    • 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
    Next Steps
    • Exploring next steps