Q: What exactly is the RAW option in my camera good for? I don’t really see any difference when I’m shooting in it. A: Unless you’re still using a really old digital camera, virtually everything that ...

Cameras, including phones, shoot JPEGs by default, but this compressed format saves a fraction of the data your camera’s sensor is capable of recording. The alternative is to shoot in RAW, a filetype ...

A lot of the wait for camera support in Aperture was due to the new RAW engine that was being developed for Aperture 2.0. An Apple spokesperson told Ars that this new low-level "plumbing" would allow ...

When Adobe speaks about camera raw problems, people listen. And the software giant spoke loudly on Monday when it released an update to the free Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop CS. The plug-in update ...

The next time you start pining for the good old days of computing, keep this in mind: In 1995 we had to negotiate hundreds of image file formats, and no two imaging programs spoke the same language.

Unlike JPEG files, which are processed in the camera, Raw files are processed on a PC, allowing users to adjust the exposure and color after the image has been captured. Although the format is thought ...

Google seems to be bringing support for RAW to third-party camera apps in Android. In other words, a lot more photography and editing apps for Android smartphones would be able to capture and edit ...