How to CHANGE MY CAMERA FROM SHOOTING IN RAW TO JPEG IN MANUAL?

I have a Canon Rebel T3 and my camera keeps wanting to shoot in RAW in manual mode instead of jpeg. I know that raw is better and more detailed BUT I like taking my pictures and syncing them to my iphone. The problem is once i try to sync them my phone tells me the files are too big and will not proceed the syncing. I then have to put them through a converter online and it usually will end up distorting the photo or completely messing up the color! I need to know a way to shoot in jpeg and be in manual mode at the same time. Can you maybe try to take me step by step (what buttons to press to change it)?

Try reading the manual that came with your camera. You can set the camera to shoot jpg only in manual. Look in the index (at the back of the book) and find jpg. It will tell you what page to find the directions.

Crazy. I shoot RAW, but when I sync my photos from my camera to my phone, it converts to JPEG for me. Maybe that's a 70D thing? I thought it was the Canon app itself doing it. Which I actually didn't like because Droids have apps that can work with RAW files (at least, so these apps claim)

Well, anyway, yes, reading your manual will be the BEST thing to do. It will teach you a lot.

In the mean time, when you're innm mode, go to your Quick Menu settings. There, you should see that you're shooting in RAW mode. Select that, then switch to, I would say RAW+JPEG at least, but you can just switch to JPEG.

If you're having trouble finding it there in your Quick Menu, go to your regular Menu and locate Image Quality (It's the first page on mine, and the first option. Not sure if it's the same for you). Select that and switch to your desired quality.

Giving up high resolution RAW files because " I like taking my pictures and syncing them to my iphone" is sort of sad.

As mentioned, maybe you need to shoot RAW + JPEG with the JPEG set to Normal

That way your iPhone can see the JPEG images.

RTFM

CAMERA OWNERS MANUAL. It came with your camera. Have you ever read one page of it? It tells you exactly how to set the camera for RAW, or RAW plus Jpeg, or various Jpeg size and quality levels. I find it very odd that you shoot in Manual but have no clue of how to adjust such a totally basic image quality setting. I also agree with fhotoace, … Why even use a DSLR if you are going to cripple the quality for the sake of some kind of phone "syncing"? Ludicrous.

Phones do not support display of RAW images, so what you are describing must be the app you installed on your phone, which is converting the RAWs to JPEG You are basically wasting your time trying to use a phone.

Also, typically a RAW file from a T3 will be about 20 Megabytes. A full size jpeg on the other hand will be about 6 Megabytes or less depending how much compression is added. Even decent images under 1 Megabyte are possible in jpegs by adding compression.

The best way to would be to process your images using the RAW conversion software Canon included in the box with your Camera. It's called Canon DPP. It only works on computers. You could use that to convert your RAWs to jpeg, then transfer them to your phone.