Image File Formats Best Practices: Dos and Don'ts

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Always Shoot Your Pictures In RAW Format!

Or even better: RAW+JPEG. For each shot you will have two files: a RAW file (the real picture, to be developed), and a JPEG for quick visualisation purposes.

Never work in JPEG !!!

if you are going to edit and save your image several times. (each time you save the image it will be re-compressed, which may cause degradation of the image on the long term.) Learn more

Work in TIFF format...

If you are going to edit -> save -> edit -> save -> etc... a particular image Learn more

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