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Of course, Lightroom can also perform the usual simple edits, like fixing the color, contrast and cleaning up any dust spots. If you get things perfect in camera, you may be able to get away with using JPEGs, but professionals and anyone serious about photography use RAW files, since they are much more flexible and give you a better chance at nailing the shot. We’ve dug deeper into the advantages of RAW files before, so check out this article for more information. That’s a big difference in the amount of data you have to use when you edit. If your photo is underexposed, a JPEG will be useless, but a RAW file will probably still have the information you need to make it work.įor comparison, my Canon 5D III saves photos as (approximately) 4 MB JPEGs or 25 MB RAW files. All the extra data gives you a lot more room to post-process your photos. Rather than just saving enough information to make an acceptable JPEG, DSLRs and other high quality cameras can write all the information they can record to a RAW file. RAW images are photos captured in a lossless file format. RELATED: What is Camera Raw, and Why Would a Professional Prefer it to JPG? Second, Lightroom is a very powerful RAW image editor.

If you shoot a lot of images, Lightroom is invaluable for keeping track of them all. There’s no way to give them star ratings or flag them as rejected. For example, in Apple Photos, you can only Favorite pictures.

While other apps like Picasa or Apple Photos can store your photos, they don’t have as many options when it comes to sorting, categorizing and finding them. Lightroom sets itself apart with the depth and power of its cataloging tools. I can instantly find all the best photos I shot last year just by filtering by 5 stars and 2016. You can then filter the photos by rating, or any other metadata. You can flag them as picks or rejections, or rate them between 1 and 5 stars. Once you’ve got the images imported, Lightroom makes it easy to go through and pull out the best images.