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RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

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215 points l8rlump | 3 comments | 09 Jul 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.393s | source
1. brcmthrowaway ◴[09 Jul 25 07:32 UTC] No.44507212[source]▶
What is the difference between RAW and Bitmap. I thought Bitmap had no compression
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2. cfn ◴[09 Jul 25 07:39 UTC] No.44507256[source]▶
No an expert here but RAW is the data generated by the sensor and requires some heavy processing before you can show it on screen. A bitmap is an image format (assuming you mean the BMP files).
3. mkl ◴[09 Jul 25 10:01 UTC] No.44508080[source]▶
They are different lossless image formats. What is called "raw" is quite a few different formats from different manufacturers, and they contain lossless image data from the camera sensor without significant postprocessing. They usually need some postprocessing to look "good". A "bitmap" is just pixel data, not a file format, but .bmp is a file format, which does support some compression, and usually won't contain raw camera sensor data but something ready to be displayed on a screen.