Convert RAW to XMP

What is RAW file?

RAW (Raw Image Data File) is a type of file used in digital photography and contains the pixel data captured by the camera's sensor. This data is uncompressed and untouched by any image manipulation software, making it ideal for digital photography purposes. RAW files can be opened with photo-editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and Corel PaintShop Pro. [ ⏩ ] RAW file extension

What is XMP file?

The XMP file extension is used by a variety of software applications for the storage of metadata embedded within digital images, audio files, video files, and other digital media files. The data stored by the XMP file format allows the user to better describe the file to other users when sharing or sending, as well as allowing software programs to more easily read and parse the data contained within them. The XMP file format is an XML-based format developed by Adobe Systems Inc.. [ ⏩ ] XMP file extension

How to convert the file from RAW to XMP?

To successfully convert the RAW file to XMP, you should install one of the applications from the list. After installing the software, open the program and select the file you want to convert (file-name.RAW). The next step is to select the target format from the list, in this case XMP (usually converters allow you to convert to several different formats, so check out their features - maybe one of the available formats will suit you more than XMP).

What is a file conversion?

A data conversion is normally an automated process to some extent. The effect of the operation of one program is automatically the input product of another application. If that does not happen we need to help the process a little bit and convert the file on our own, e.g. RAW to XMP. To obtain a matched structure of the data, it is necessary to use an appropriate converter.

Program for converting RAW files to XMP files is a kind of a "binary code translator" compensating for the differences in the code or translating it in such a way so that another application could use it. For us, as users, the visible change will be only another file extension. (After converting the file, it will be the extension XMP, while before this step we had the RAW file). For the programs, the difference is on a much higher level – either the application will be able to open a new XMP file, or not.

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