If you’ve ever transferred photos from your camera to your computer, you might have noticed that some files are 30MB while others are only 3MB. This is the RAW vs JPEG issue. Every photographer faces this, often when trying to email a photo that won’t attach. RAW gives you everything your camera captured. It’s untouched and uncompressed, ready for your edits. JPEG, on the other hand, compresses the image. It removes data you likely won’t miss, making it small enough to text, upload, or print easily. Most working photographers do both. They shoot in RAW, edit in RAW, and export