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Sebastiaan de With, the artist abaft Halide has alone some adeptness today on aloof how RAW photography works with the iPhone. de With goes into answer the advantages, and disadvantages, that appear with RAW photography and why they matter.
In iOS 10, Apple alien the adeptness to shoot RAW photography application the latest bearing iPhones. Though the affection hasn’t fabricated its way into the official camera app, affluence of third-party apps accept appear in to aces up the slack. Halide, a almost new iOS camera app, is one of those apps.
The aboriginal few times I attempt in RAW on my iPhone, it took some accepting acclimated to. I wasn’t acclimatized to the differences in images it offered over the banal camera app. This claiming primarily existed because I wasn’t absolutely abiding how RAW photos were accepted to perform. de With’s column today goes through answer what I ambition I knew back the affection started rolling out to third-party apps.
Out of the box, iOS’ camera app saves images in a JPG (or HEIC) format. It automatically applies what it considers to be the best saturation, lighting, and colors for that specific photo. By cutting in RAW, which Halide supports, it increases image-editing adaptability in post.
As de With puts it:
RAW affords you alteration freedom. Absolute abandon to change the colors and white antithesis of a photo, or convalescent too-bright highlights and too-dark shadows.
Example RAW image: Before
Example RAW image: After
Many of us accept acquainted disappointment back we photograph a admirable dusk alone to acquisition it attractive absolutely clashing what our eyes see. With RAW, you can change the angel after to accomplish it resemble what you absolutely saw. A JPEG abduction about commits to the white antithesis the camera estimates was authentic back the photo was taken.
de With is bright that while RAW can be absolutely magical, it’s not consistently the optimal choice.
Because RAW files can’t use lossy compression, they’re are about 10 megabytes, while the apprehensive JPEG is beneath three megabytes. If you’re demography a photo of area you parked, RAW is apparently overkill.
He alike explains the oft-confusing acquaintance iOS has in previewing its RAW angel files.
…RAW files additionally accommodate a actual low resolution examination image. It isn’t advised for editing, aloof award your photo. This examination is alone bisected a megapixel, while the absolute angel central is over twelve megapixels.
Now this is area best bodies get confused: apps that don’t abutment RAW will still amount the image. However, they aloof amount the low resolution examination instead of the full-resolution image. And they won’t acquaint you. Believe it or not, the congenital in iOS Photos app doesn’t abutment RAW…
Take a apprehend through the blow of de With’s column on cutting in RAW to accept what it agency to the iPhone. Halide is accessible on iOS for $4.99.
Have you attempt any RAW photos on your iPhone? Were you afflicted with the after-effects or what you could do in post? Share your examples below, we’d adulation to see them!
Images: Sebastiaan de With
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