These free RAW photos for retouching practice are all landscape images and are ideal unedited RAW photos to practice editing.
I shoot all of my landscape photos in RAW, as it gives so much more flexibility when it comes to editing your photos in Lightroom or Photoshop.
Feel free to use any of these RAW images for Photoshop practice (although they are not allowed to be used for commercial use, or re-sold or re-packaged for download), and if you do post your finished versions anywhere, please link back to www.lapseoftheshutter.com 🙂
Download RAW Photos: Unedited Photos to Practice Editing
If you want some practice editing these photos in Lightroom, then take a look at my themed packs of free Lightroom presets, available for unlimited use and immediate download with no email or signup needed.
You can also download PSD files which include the RAW file and layers containing my edits, from my page of practice images for Photoshop.
These are unedited photos to practice editing.
2. Santorini, Greece
And below is the version I created using the Lightroom Develop System.
There is also a free video tutorial on retouching this photo.
4. Bangkok, Thailand
And below is the version I created using the Lightroom Develop System.
This is part of a tutorial on how to easily add color depth to your photos.
11. Death Valley National Park, USA
And below is the version I created using the Lightroom Develop System.
12. Canyonlands National Park, USA
And below is the version I created using the Lightroom Develop System.
17. The Alps, Austria
18. The Alps, Austria
19. Meteora, Greece
20. Skaftafell, Iceland
21. Bryce Canyon National Park, USA
22. Matera, Italy
23. Bagan, Myanmar
24. The Chopta Valley, Sikkim
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25. Rome, Italy
26. Prague, Czech Republic
27. The Lake District, UK
28. Athens, Greece
29. Lofoten Islands, Norway
30. Rome, Italy
31. Petra, Jordan
32. Milan, Italy
33. Lofoten Islands, Norway
34. Luxembourg
35. Madison, WI, USA
36. The Maldives
37. Wadi Rum, Jordan
38. Lofoten Islands, Norway
39. Seville, Spain
40. Cambridge, UK
41. Singapore
42. Bali, Indonesia
43. Lofoten Islands, Norway
44. Mandalay, Myanmar
45. Dubrovnik, Croatia
46. Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina
47. Hampi, India
48. Lofoten Islands, Norway
49. Li River, China
50. Vieste, Italy
Download All 50 Free RAW Files in One Pack!
Click the button below to download all 50 files in one go (use the Download icon in the top-right of the page that opens), but note that this is a few GB in size.
Download the Edits for a Select Number of the RAW Files
A number of the RAW files in the list above also show a version containing my edits. You can now download those edited files from the link below, then see if you can try to match them. You can also take a look at my practice images for Photoshop, which contain all my PS layers of an edit.
File Format
All of these photos for editing are CR2 files, which is Canon’s proprietary RAW format.
You can open these RAW photos to edit in any reputable photography program, but I would recommend either Lightroom or Photoshop, which will open these with ease.
How to Edit RAW Photos?
If you are struggling with your RAW photo editing, then try the Lightroom Develop System, a series of over 1000 guided Lightroom presets, or the Photoshop Color Control Action Pack, both freely available when you join the club.
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Or take a look at my collection of themed free Lightroom presets, available for immediate download without an email address or any other signup.
Read My Top Photo Editing Tutorials
The Digital Blending Workflow Tutorial
The Landscapes Masterclass: No HDR, No Plugins
This long form guide contains a complete workflow for one landscape photo, giving you detailed tips, tricks and guides on how to perfect your landscape photos through digital blending, using the tools in Lightroom and Photoshop
Lightroom Tutorial - Adding Color Depth with White Balance
Using targeted white balance adjustments, you can enhance sunrises, paint in new sunsets, make stormy skies pop, create stylised effects, and much more, all with very little time and effort. Learn how to do this entirely in Lightroom
Photoshop Tutorial - Blend Any Two Photos
This tutorial covers methods of blending in five common landscape situations: Multiple Exposure Blending; Time Blending; Object Blending; Double-Process Blending; Blending Skies. These powerful methods will help you blend photos in any situation.
Color Control in Your Photography Tutorial
“I’ve blended my exposures, but my photo still doesn’t look like how I want it to look. Now what?” Learn a two-and-a-half minute, Photoshop based workflow to fix both colour and tone in this long form tutorial and video series.
2 Responses
Trang Nguyen
Hi the author,
It’s great that you shared RAW images of beautiful landscapes. However the links are wrong or the files are deleted that I couldn’t download images. I really appreciate your sharing if you could send me the link for download your 50 RAW files. Thank you so much !
Tim Daniels
Thanks for letting me know.
It looks like the company hosting the files have closed down without letting me know.
I’ll re-upload them elsewhere and update these links.