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Editing a RAW 64 MP PHOTO (from the DJI Pocket 2) in Lightroom // Can my Google Pixel 4a handle it?
Is Lightroom on my Google Pixel 4a going to handle a RAW 64 MP photo from the DJI Pocket 2? How good is the RAW file considering the DJI camera has a tiny sensor? I will answer these questions by editing a 64 MP RAW photo of a sunset I captured using the DJI Pocket 2 with the wide-angle lens. It's also my first tutorial with Lightroom Mobile, so I will use this occasion to explain how to use the basic editing options and why I prefer it to another mobile photo editing app.
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good evening everyone welcome back to another photo editing tutorial for those of you who are new to this channel i'm like ben mahalford a young photographer and filmmaker on the journey to become better at design every two weeks i publish a video where i show how i edit one of my shots this week we're going to be talking about one of the shots i captured using the dji pocket 2. if you don't know what is this camera you can go check out the review i published last week now let's start editing this shot and for this i'm going to be using my favorite mobile editing app which is lightroom on my google pixel 4a and it's pretty impressive that you can edit 120 megabyte picture on my pixel 4. the first thing we're going to look at inside of lightroom here is the crop option so we're not really going to crop the picture but we're going to make the horizon a little bit more leveled so we're just going to come here and bring it down a little bit so let's see something like this and i'm looking at the trees to make sure that the trees are vertical with the vertical lines and the pictures so we're going to bring it to something i would say about like this and this is pretty good it's kind of hard to do on a mobile phone but this seems to be pretty good so once this is done we're going to go in the next tab here which is light and this is actually where we're gonna see how much information there actually is in this raw file and it's pretty imperative so if we go down here we can see we have all the details inside of the highlights of the sky and if we bring it back up here we can see we have all the details also inside of the shadows and this was one question i got from people why do raw pictures matters and it's because of this because you have all the details that are in the highlights and also all the details in the shadows and this is really impressive considering it's coming from a tiny camera the dji pocket 2 so yes it's really impressive so for the highlights here we're going to leave them around something here we're going to expose it for the highlights then we're going to bring up the contrast and by bringing up some contrast we're gonna get more of the separation in the foreground here and also it's gonna make the colors pop a little bit more in the background then if we come inside of highlights here we're gonna bring the highlights down completely and you're gonna see at that inside of the sky it really changes everything when we bring down the highlights so i just realized my exposure might be a little bit too low so i'm going to bring back up the exposure just a little bit here then we're going to go inside of shadows here and we're going to bring up the shadows to the maximum because we thought there isn't that much noise in the shadows so we're going to get more detail by bringing back up the shadows then we're going to bring up the whites here and by bringing up the whites it's just going to make the picture pop a little bit more by making the points that are white a little bit brighter then we're going to bring up the blacks we could bring them down to get more contrast but i think just bring actually bringing them down just a little bit to around minus 14 is looking pretty good then we're going to go inside of the color tab here and in this time we're not going to touch the temperature or tint we're going to leave them down like that but we're going to bring up a vibrance and vibrance is better to use than saturation because if you bring saturation to the max here it brings every single color value to its maximum possible value and that's not what you want so saturation if you go a little bit too far it's kind of a terrible result so we're just gonna bring it up to around i would say five something like that but vibrance if you bring it up it brings the color makes the colors pop but not the same way as uh saturation does so for this one we can bring it up a little bit more here so around 40 is actually pretty good because we still want to have these nice colors from the sky next step here is the effects tabs and we're not going to touch the texture we're not going to touch the clarity because i don't really use them that much but we're going to use the haze here just to add a little bit and this is going to help remove some of the haze inside of the sky and inside of the shot and just get a little bit more contrast in the shot here then we're going inside of the details uh panel and if we zoom inside of the branches here to have a little bit better idea of what it looks like we can see there's already a lot of detail inside of the shot but if we come here and just bring up the sharpness we can bring it up to let's say something like 70 and we're just going to get a little bit more detail in the branches here then we're going to apply a little bit of noise reduction uh so let's say something like 20 i think 20 is pretty good um and this is just going to help if we look at the branches here and also going to apply some color noise reduction i forgot about that and it's really going to help inside of the branches here once it process the change here to remove some of this annoying noise we had in the shadows and now we have a pretty clean image in the shadows here the next step is going in the next tab right here so if you didn't understand yet uh lightroom was made that you go tab by tab to edit your shot so it's a really simple way of editing you can remove chromatic aberration uh there isn't much inside of this shot so it's not making a big difference and what is really cool with the raw pictures from dji is that they have built-in lens profile information inside of the raw file so lightroom can use that already to apply a correction for this wide-angle picture that we got so it's already applied we don't have to do anything here about it so if we look at our original shot right here so i'm just gonna click on the picture here we look at the original one and our edit one it wasn't really complexity but we can see it's a huge difference on the result we have right here so now we're ready to go and export so we're going to go inside the menu here export as we're going to leave it as jpeg leave the dimension that's largest available quality 100 and we're gonna click on export and we're just gonna wait a few seconds for the export to be done so the photo just finished exporting and if we go inside of the adobe folder inside of uh photos here we're gonna actually see our exports we have the picture right here and it's kind of incredible how much detail there is in the 64 megabyte file coming from this tiny sensor because if we zoom inside of here we can actually see the chair right here which can wait a few seconds to get it clear but we have all the details inside of the chair here and the bone in the background and if we actually look at the other side here and we zoom in we can actually perfectly see the canoe and perfect details which is really incredible because when you zoom back out you're gonna see how tiny the canoe and the chair actually are so it's actually really impressive how good and how high quality the pictures from this tiny camera are and how much flexibility you have inside of the raw picture to edit it the reason i like lightroom so much compared to most mobile photo editing app is that first of all i have the catalogue about my pictures so i can quickly access any of the pictures and also go through them and rate them or review them so i can quickly select them and place a review so this is great when i come back from a chip and i have three thousand or something like that and i want to select quickly on my favorite shots and if i have a picture here that i want to edit i can actually just come in here and that's actually a picture i had on my desktop that automatically sync to the app here i can come here look at my settings and change my settings as i want wherever i am which is really great because a lot of times i take a picture i did it the first time come back the next day decide to change it a little bit and i do that a few times until i decide for the final edit so this is a huge feature that most other apps don't really have like snack scene you can only import a picture and you use all your edits when you save it at the end as a jpeg so this is really a must-have feature when you have so many pictures like i do if you enjoyed this video please leave a like below it really does help the channel and also consider subscribing because i'm going to be releasing a new tutorial on photo editing every single two weeks see you in the next one bye you
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What is this video about?
In this tutorial, I'm diving into one of my favorite questions: can a tiny camera like the DJI Pocket 2 actually produce usable RAW files worth editing? And more practically, can my Google Pixel 4a handle processing a 64 MP RAW file in Lightroom Mobile? I'm going to answer both by editing a sunset photo I captured with the Pocket 2's wide-angle lens.
What really impressed me about this file is the amount of information packed into it, despite the Pocket 2's small sensor. When I open it in Lightroom, I can see full detail recovery in both the highlights (the bright sky) and the shadows (the darker foreground). This is really the point of shooting RAW—you get flexibility that a JPEG simply can't offer.
I walk through my editing process step by step. First, I level the horizon slightly using the crop tool. Then I move into the Light panel where the real editing happens: I bring down the highlights to recover detail in the sky, boost the shadows to lift the darker areas, and adjust contrast to make the image pop. In the Color tab, I add some vibrance (not saturation—there's a difference, and I explain why). Then it's into Effects for a touch of dehaze, and finally Details to sharpen and reduce noise.
The coolest part? The DJI RAW file comes with built-in lens profile information, so Lightroom automatically corrects for the wide-angle distortion. No manual work needed.
What makes Lightroom my go-to app isn't just the editing tools—it's the ecosystem. I can catalog my shots, rate them, and sync my edits across devices. When I shoot hundreds or thousands of photos, being able to quickly review and select my favorites on my phone, then refine the edits over time, is huge. Most other mobile apps don't offer this flexibility.
The final export speaks for itself. Even zoomed in on what seemed like tiny details in the composition—a chair, a canoe—the resolution and clarity are remarkable. It's genuinely impressive what you can pull from such a compact camera when you shoot RAW and have the right editing software.