We all have been there at some point in our photographic journeys: Our cameras, set to AUTO, pointing and clicking, saving JPEG images that we perhaps edit a little and put in an album to archive.

Once, photographers converted their precious raw files into DNG files, which promised to be future-proof. There might be another reason: there is a DNG file format with lossy compression. Could this ...

Every photographer makes decisions about file formats constantly, yet most of us operate on habit, hearsay, or whatever our camera defaulted to when we first pulled it out of the box. The problem is ...

This week a friend and photo enthusiast asked a question, "I know a person who knows more about photography than me, and he says I might want to look into shooting RAW photos. I asked him why and I ...

If you’re interested in digital photography then one thing you absolutely need to know are RAW files. We’ve all heard of JPEGs – the industry standard for compressed, easily sharable pictures – but ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're interested in digital photography then one thing you absolutely need to know are RAW files. We've all heard of JPEGs – ...

Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac natively support a variety of image formats. With JPEG, HEIF, and ProRAW being the most common, here's what they mean and how to pick between them. The camera on iPhone and ...