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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrleo33" data-source="post: 278208" data-attributes="member: 17332">I have Photoshop Elements and invested in a copy of Lightroom and am now using that for most of my RAW processing needs. Lightroom software handles RAW and JPEG files identically, with no additional steps needed compared to Elements, therefore shooting RAW is much simpler than it used to be.  In simple terms, RAW files provide the Photographer with every scrap of data their Camera’s Sensor can record, as opposed to JPEG, which compresses the JPEG image by throwing away a percentage of the data the sensor records. In a rudimentary way, you can think of shooting RAW as being the same as shooting with negatives, which always allow one to go back and re-edit the original image without loss of data. TIFF and RAW files produce the highest quality images because there’s no JPEG-like loss due to image compression.When you post process your RAW image in Lightroom, you can save it as either a JPEG or TIFF; and this also includes the dimensions of the file.  99.9% of the time, the JPEG image one produces in Lightroom using a RAW image, will be of higher quality than the JPEG a Camera produces.  This is not to say, modern Cameras cannot produce an acceptable JPEG. With most modern Nikon Cameras, the Photographer always can shoot RAW or RAW + JPG and have the convenience of both prints and negatives. </blockquote>