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In the **Mask** group, **Amount** fades the whole mask's edit and **Invert** turns it inside out.","Name your masks (**Rename…** in each mask's menu) once a photo has a few.",[301,304],{"q":302,"a":303},"Do masks need an internet connection or a download?","No. Select Subject and Select Object use the model built into your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and Select Sky works on the device too.",{"q":305,"a":306},"Can I copy masks to other photos?","Yes: Copy Settings… (in the photo's … menu) lets you tick Masking, which is left out unless you ask for it.",[4,308],"edit-portrait",{},{"masks-open-mac-dark-1600":311,"masks-open-mac-dark-800":312,"masks-open-mac-light-1600":313,"masks-open-mac-light-800":314},"https:\u002F\u002Ffiles.eliasruiz.com\u002Fhelp-bites\u002Ftb4A2EAxRx\u002Fblog\u002F0d9dabb1-4de0-45fd-a6f4-2aaf56784950.webp","https:\u002F\u002Ffiles.eliasruiz.com\u002Fhelp-bites\u002Ftb4A2EAxRx\u002Fblog\u002F813b39ad-1cfc-4537-a41f-f5ad65d43130.webp","https:\u002F\u002Ffiles.eliasruiz.com\u002Fhelp-bites\u002Ftb4A2EAxRx\u002Fblog\u002F39df4704-06f9-4961-9b8b-4fcbf5b8f775.webp","https:\u002F\u002Ffiles.eliasruiz.com\u002Fhelp-bites\u002Ftb4A2EAxRx\u002Fblog\u002Fb41e3613-616e-4c96-8b34-d5f0dfee6d7a.webp",{"slug":142,"section":5,"title":316,"seoTitle":317,"description":318,"intro":319,"level":320,"minutes":60,"updated":12,"icon":321,"keywords":322,"presetName":328,"raw":329,"steps":338,"faq":436,"related":446,"order":448,"downloads":449,"images":459},"How to edit a raw photo, in the order the pros do","How to edit raw photos: a step-by-step workflow on iPhone and Mac","A raw file is where a great photo starts. The order to work in, from profile and white balance to tone, colour and sharpening, with a raw file to practise on.","Most edits go wrong because they're done in the wrong order. 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Choose it first, because everything after builds on it.",[344,347],{"ios":345,"mac":346},"Tap **Edit**, then **Profile**, and try a few. Each tile is the photo in that profile.","Open **Profile** at the top of the Edit panel, or **Browse Profiles** to see them as pictures.","Pick one that looks natural rather than finished: you'll add the punch later.",{"alt":349,"ui":350},"The profiles for a raw landscape, each shown as a thumbnail of the photo",{"screen":38,"group":340},{"id":352,"title":353,"text":354,"do":355,"tip":361,"shot":362},"white-balance","Set the white balance","White balance decides whether white looks white. With a raw file it's lossless, so get it right now: every colour after depends on it.",[356,357,360],"In **Color**, choose a **White Balance**: **As Shot**, **Auto**, or the light you shot in (**Daylight**, **Cloudy**, **Shade**…).",{"ios":358,"mac":359},"Or tap the eyedropper and then something that should be neutral grey or white.","Or press `W` and click something that should be neutral grey or white.","Fine-tune **Temp** (cooler or warmer) and **Tint** (greener or more magenta) by eye.","Not sure? Look at something you know is white, a cloud or a wall, and move **Temp** until it stops looking blue or yellow.",{"alt":363,"ui":364},"The Color group with the white balance menu, Temp and Tint",{"screen":38,"group":39},{"id":366,"title":367,"text":368,"set":369,"shot":370},"exposure","Get the exposure right","Set **Exposure** so the main subject is as bright as you want it. Don't worry about the brightest and darkest parts yet: that's the next step.",{"light.exposure":290},{"alt":371,"ui":372},"Exposure raised a third of a stop in the Light group",{"screen":38,"group":52},{"id":374,"title":375,"text":376,"do":377,"set":381,"tip":383,"shot":384},"tones","Bring back the highlights, open the shadows","This is where raw files shine: there is far more in the bright and dark parts than the camera showed you.",[378,379,380],"Pull **Highlights** down until the sky has detail again.","Push **Shadows** up until the dark parts open, but stop before it looks flat.","Set **Whites** and **Blacks** last: up and down until the brightest and darkest parts just touch white and black.",{"light.highlights":382,"light.shadows":113,"light.whites":255,"light.blacks":127},-60,"Watch the histogram: the graph should reach both ends without piling up against either.",{"alt":385,"ui":386},"Highlights down and Shadows up: the sky and the shadows both have detail",{"screen":38,"group":52},{"id":388,"title":389,"text":390,"set":391,"shot":392},"presence","Add contrast and presence","Recovering both ends makes a photo flatter, so add some of it back. **Contrast** for the whole photo, then **Texture** for fine detail and **Clarity** for mid-sized detail, both gently. A little **Dehaze** cuts through haze in the distance.",{"light.contrast":90,"effects.texture":91,"effects.clarity":90,"effects.dehaze":128},{"alt":393,"ui":394},"Texture, Clarity and Dehaze in the Effects group",{"screen":38,"group":132},{"id":396,"title":397,"text":398,"set":399,"shot":401},"colour","Colour: vibrance first","**Vibrance** lifts the dull colours more than the strong ones, and spares skin. Use it before **Saturation**, which pushes every colour equally. For one colour only, open **Color Mixer**: the blue of a sky, the green of grass.",{"color.vibrance":274,"mixer.blue.sat":60,"mixer.green.sat":400},-6,{"alt":402,"ui":403,"mac":404},"Vibrance raised in the Color group, the Color Mixer below it",{"screen":38,"group":39},{"sections":405},[39,107],{"id":407,"title":408,"text":409,"do":410,"set":416,"shot":418},"detail","Sharpen and clean up noise","Sharpening and noise reduction come last, looked at up close. Zoom in to 100 % on something with fine detail.",[411,414,415],{"ios":412,"mac":413},"In **Detail**, open **Sharpening** and raise the amount until edges look crisp, not crunchy.","In **Detail**, raise **Sharpening** until edges look crisp, not crunchy.","Raise **Masking** to keep the sharpening off smooth areas such as the sky.","Add **Noise Reduction** only if you see grain in the shadows.",{"detail.sharpenAmount":113,"detail.sharpenMasking":417,"detail.nrLuminance":91},35,{"alt":419,"ui":420},"The Detail group: sharpening and noise reduction",{"screen":38,"group":407},{"id":422,"title":423,"text":424,"edit":427,"shot":431},"crop","Straighten and crop",{"ios":425,"mac":426},"Open **Crop**, tap **Auto** to level the horizon, and crop out anything at the edges that pulls the eye away.","Open **Crop**, level the horizon with **Angle**, and crop out anything at the edges that pulls the eye away.",[428],[429,430],"crop.autoStraighten",{},{"alt":432,"ui":433},"The finished photo with the horizon levelled",{"screen":422,"cropTab":434,"cropGuide":435},"aspect","thirds",[437,440,443],{"q":438,"a":439},"Why shoot raw?","A raw file keeps everything the sensor saw: much more detail in the bright and dark parts, and white balance you can change without losing quality. A JPEG has already thrown most of that away.",{"q":441,"a":442},"Does this work for iPhone ProRAW?","Yes. ProRAW is a DNG file, and LightBites edits it like any raw. Turn on ProRAW in the Camera settings of your iPhone.",{"q":444,"a":445},"Why this order?","Each step changes what the next one sees: the profile and white balance change every colour, exposure changes every tone. 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