Chapter 4. Using Camera Raw 5.0

I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.

—Woodrow Wilson

It has been an ongoing dilemma for digital photographers in recent years: JPG or raw? Some might say that only high-end photographers with high-end gear (read: “expensive”) could afford to shoot raw, in all forms of the word. But raw-format photography is now a fairly common technique used by photographers of all skill levels to ensure maximum image quality and a higher level of editing latitude. Raw files are different from JPEG or TIFF images in that they contain all the data that was captured from the camera, but with minimal ...

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