The other is a free plug-in for Photoshop itself - Adobe Camera Raw - that ships and installs with Photoshop. One is a completely separate, standalone application known as Adobe Lightroom.
To work with these files, we need to use special software that knows what to do with the raw data. If you remember from a previous tutorial, raw files contain nothing more than the raw image data captured by your camera's sensor, with no processing of any kind (which is where the name raw comes from). There's no question that Photoshop has become the world's most popular and powerful image editor, but one thing Photoshop can't do on its own is process raw files. Yet Camera Raw can also be used to edit JPEG and TIFF images, leaving many people wondering, "Which should I use for editing my photos - Photoshop or Camera Raw?" In this tutorial, we'll answer that question by taking a quick look at where Camera Raw fits within a standard image editing workflow, as well as some of the advantages Camera Raw has over Photoshop for developing and processing your images.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! What Is Camera Raw? We also learned that in order to process raw files, we need to use a program like Adobe Camera Raw.
Not only do we gain complete creative freedom over the process, but the abundance of image information means we can often rescue and restore detail in the highlights and shadows that, as a JPEG, would most likely have been lost. What we end up with is an already developed image, with permanent changes already made to its pixels, and with a lot of (what would have been) useful image detail missing and gone forever.Ī raw file, on the other hand, contains every bit of image detail straight from the camera's sensor with no processing of any kind so we can develop the image ourselves from scratch according to how we, not the camera, think it should look. We learned that our camera's JPEG conversion process acts like a mini photo lab, developing our images according to how it thinks they should look, with no input from us, while at the same time discarding much of the original image information that was captured by our camera's sensor. In a previous tutorial, we looked at the benefits that the raw file format has over JPEG when capturing images with our camera.
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