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Photo Answers

Andrew James

Andrew is a highly-experienced writer and photographer – if you have a problem, he is here to help.

JPEG panic

Q I use Lightroom to develop my raws, but the other day I accidentally shot a whole day with my camera set to JPEG instead of raw. Can I still process them in Lightroom, or am I stuck with the JPEGs as they are?

Andy Cooper

A For starters, don’t panic: we’ve all done this at some time or another, and a Large JPEG setting will give you a quality file that can still be taken further. You can load the JPEGs into Lightroom just as you would the raws, and use all the sliders as you would for a raw file.

The difference, of course, is that the amount of post-processing you can do

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