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We’re going to start with my favorite first adjustment. Just open them up with the software, and you will get this import dialog.

Most RAW files are compatible with Adobe Photoshop Elements. Your camera might create some other file type. Rest assured, you can expect quite a few more tutorialsīear in mind that there all kinds of different file formats for RAW camera data. That it’s simply too much to cover in one tutorial. There are so many options in this one dialog box, You’ll also see a histogram on the top, so you’ll immediately know if you’ve taken your changes a little too far. The Adobe Camera RAW dialog box will open up, giving you a number of options to change your image before you import it. To import a RAW file into Photoshop Elements, you simply open up the RAW file. Importing RAW files into Adobe Photoshop Elements Never do this: RAW File -> Adobe Photoshop Elements -> JPEG File -> Adobe Photoshop Elements -> JPEG File -> Share, Print, etc. I never modify the JPEGs more than once because it tends to degrade the quality.Īlways do this: RAW File -> Adobe Photoshop Elements -> JPEG File -> Share, Print, etc. If I ever want to modify any of my images, I open up the RAW and process it into a shareable JPEG image. This ensures they will never get corrupted. I always keep all of my RAW files in a separate folder, completely unmodified. You never want to modify a RAW file because if you did, you’d make an irreversible change to the original image. The second reason has to do with processing.

Why is this? Well, it’s partly due to the fact that RAW files are very large. They process them into other image formats that then get shared with others. You can think of a RAW file as a sort of digital negative. That’s unfortunate because RAW files give you so much more options than JPEGs do. If you shoot in JPEG, you never see the RAW file because it gets deleted once the JPEG is created. It adds a little sharpening and some compression to reduce the file size. Before creating the JPEG files we are all accustomed to, your camera does some basic modifications to the RAW data. The RAW format is the completely unaltered image data, taken straight from the camera's image sensor.