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title: "What is RAW?"  
description: "What is RAW?"  
author: "Andy Simon"  
published: 2018-02-27  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35032/what-is-raw  
category: "photography"  
tags: ["photography"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What is RAW?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**RAW is basically a format which captures all the pictures data recorded by the [sensor](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1912/with-the-use-of-sweat-sensor-could-track-medication-intake-within-30-seconds) while taking a snap.** Whenever we take a [picture](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1066/world-s-clearest-ufo-picture-found-after-32-years) in a JPEG format the information of the particular [image](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/216/i-want-to-display-images-into-to-datagridview-one-by-one-taking-image-url-from-database-field) gets vanished and the image also gets compressed.

There are diverse ways of shooting an [advanced](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/323453/why-you-should-create-your-own-study-space-at-home) and sharp picture and photographers for capturing high [quality](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/329/what-is-the-quality-assurance-in-testing) and intense picture prefer RAW or JPEG format of **[photography](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30859/what-are-the-types-of-photography).** In case you're another picture taker simply beginning you're most likely shooting JPEG records and this is absolutely alright. Anyway, you totally should begin shooting in RAW [configuration](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13112/setting-up-the-perfect-configuration-for-your-work-computer) at the earliest opportunity.\

![What is RAW?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/74401422-a108-4704-8c08-d85ae02dfd81/images/1ae63839-4c60-46a4-8f21-73c5c22c6578.jpg)\

**RAW picture document contains insignificantly prepared information from the picture sensor.** Crude records are named so since they are not yet handled and in this way are not prepared to be printed or altered. Regularly, the picture is handled by a crude converter before you can truly do anything with it. You can utilize something like Adobe Lightroom for this.\
**Well, when shooting in JPEG you are shooting a vigorously packed picture and you are losing information.** At the end of the day, your camera is discarding data when it makes the JPG picture. When you shoot RAW your camera is gathering up all the data it can and sparing it in one major lump. \
![What is RAW?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/74401422-a108-4704-8c08-d85ae02dfd81/images/669d7031-8c7e-4526-9125-9723d75adb36.jpg)\
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**With JPG a few things are simply heated in and you can't return like white adjust.** Though when you shoot RAW you can change your white adjust in [post](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/255/post-get-and-request-function-in-php) preparing on the off chance that you [committed](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/290/zoos-prisons-for-beings-who-have-never-committed-a-crime) an error. Or on the other hand, you can truly cut down the extinguished or overexposed bits of your pictures similar to the case in this photograph.\
**"All the best"**


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