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

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211 points l8rlump | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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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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1. 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).