re: #264 ggt

BACK TO Photoshop …

So my camera takes pix in RAW —they upload to my computer in JPG and I pull them into Photoshop which always seems to save things in PNG.

Should I be worried?

I don’t want mixed-file little picturess.

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RAW files are essentially recording exactly what light is hitting the sensor. It’s the digital version of a negative, if you were. They are BIG files, but excellent for doing photo manipulation after the fact, if desired. For example, this and this are the same base image, processed from RAW differently (Tofino, British Columbia, where I was last week).

A lot of cameras will save as RAW , which means they also save a JPEG file processed according to the on-board parameters, since most folks expect JPEG images. That’s probably what you’re seeing when your computer transfers the files.

Photoshop can save in a variety of formats; my guess is that yours is set to default to PNG (for Internet use maybe?) as I believe it is somewhat better than JPEG in terms of loss of image quality. I’m not sure on that part though.