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When to load raw and when to use preprocessed files

When to load raw and when to use preprocessed files - Aurora HDR Tutorial

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When to load raw and when to use preprocessed files

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- I realize that not all of you will have a camera that's capable of shooting RAW. Maybe you shoot on a smartphone, which actually can shoot bracketed with third party apps. Or maybe you're shooting on a GoPro, and you're not taking advantage of the newer GoPro that has its own GPR or RAW format. It's okay. You can still get good results by merging the files. But I'd like to show you in detail why I recommend choosing RAW files over processed files. I'm going to switch and open these up here so you can see them, and what we have is a nice image with a relatively wide dynamic range, and I can merge those files directly inside of Aurora. However, maybe you're a Light Room user, and if that's the case, you can use Light Room to take advantage of perspective correction. So let's do just that. I'm going to take these images here and send them to my Light Room library. I'll just drag those into that new Light Room catalog I was working with earlier, and we'll import those in. Let's select…

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