What you need
Lightroom is designed specifically for photographers working with digital capture files. Lightroom can process JPEGs, TIFFs, raw images, and video files. If your camera is capable of capturing raw images, I strongly advise you to shoot in raw mode whenever possible. Lightroom currently supports more than 350 different raw camera formats.
Tip
To see if the raw files from your camera are supported in Lightroom, go to the Adobe Photoshop website at www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html.
Those cameras that are capable of capturing raw images using the Digital Negative (DNG) format also can be supported by Lightroom. The DNG format offers many benefits: it is a self-contained raw format that can incorporate externally edited ...
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