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At some point in everyone’s photographic journey, most people will ask: what is a RAW file? In my early days as a novice ...

In this post, we will discuss what is an ARW file and how to view it on Windows 11/10 PC. ARW stands for Sony Alpha Raw and is a RAW image file format. This file format is specially used by Sony ...

If you follow digital photography and photo editing at all, you’ve probably noticed mentions of raw camera files. If you care about getting the best possible results from your photos, whether you ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

All DSLRs and many recent highly-featured digicams support two capture formats: JPEG or Raw. TIFF may also be offered. Raw is quite different from the other two formats in several ways: All DSLRs and ...

To open & view RAW image format files in Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Explorer, and Windows Live Photo Gallery on Windows 11/10, you can download and install the free Microsoft Camera Codec Pack. The ...