When you use a digital camera, you may have the option to save the photo you’ve taken as a raw+JPEG file. This is a quasi-standardized file format that bundles a JPEG with the unmodified sensor ...

At some point in everyone’s photographic journey, most people will ask: what is a RAW file? In my early days as a novice ...

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 ...

Your digital SLR or high-end compact camera gives you the option of saving your photos as Raw files or as JPEGs. Which should you pick? It’s an old question, but it isn’t as easy to answer as you ...

Ever since Apple added a “raw” mode to iPhone and iPad camera shots, the pathway diverged for how to send the highest-resolution format of a file to other people. “Raw” (sometimes capitalized as RAW, ...