Working in the camera's raw image file format isn't just for professionals anymore; today, even some point and shoot cameras can do it, giving the versatility of the format's editing capacity to many shooters. In this updated version of Getting Started with Camera Raw, author Ben Long gives detailed information about how to use raw in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Elements, in addition to some basics about how your camera captures and stores data, raw versus JPEG files, and sorting/processing images using Adobe Camera Raw in Elements or full Photoshop.
Written by photographer/videographer Ben Long, an author of many imaging-software-related books