There are so many reasons to get raw files from your camera instead of JPEGs that it’s difficult to know where to start to list them.

Shooting raw can provide much better colour, resolution and dynamic range. It also allows you to better balance sharpness with noise, to protect highlights and to scale your images. White balance when you shoot raw is suddenly much less of a problem. And as raw converters improve (which they’re doing constantly), images you shoot today will look even better in tomorrow’s software.

At Shoot Raw, we help photographers with every stage of a digital raw workflow, from getting optimal exposures right through to print and creating the best output for the web, for print bureaux and for your client CDs. We show you how to use Lightroom 2 as the management software for your work and as your go-to raw conversion application, integrating smoothly with Photoshop when you need it.

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