![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, Camera Raw is a very poor quality format (as it comes out of a camera), because it has only 1/3-1/4 of the colour info in other graphics format. So I naturally want to convert my work to this best possible format and use it as my standard image format, because it's the best. That must mean that Camera Raw is the best possible graphic format.ģ. I see a lot of questions about camera raw and SOME of them seem to make this series of assumptions.Ģ. I found these articles especially useful: I realised I didn't know what Camera Raw really was so I have been studying about this. I think the word I mean is "mosaiced", that is in the format stored by a camera. Lightroom Classic can export a raw as DNG. I wonder if this is what Test Screen Name is referring to. The original RGB data are written to the DNG, so the DNG will simply not be a raw file in that case.īy Classic can export a JPEG as a DNG. And if the original is not a raw image, then it works the same way. If you export as DNG, then Lightroom will pack the original raw data in a DNG envelope, and will embed the edits as non-destructive metadata instructions. It would be like converting an omelet to raw eggs again. Exporting as DNG does not mean that an RGB image is somehow converted to mosaiced data again. Lightroom can export as DNG, so let's see what happens if you do that. I don't think you understand how this works. But you would not lose 75% colour info like you suggest. That is pretty useless because it is no different than saving as TIFF, and because DNG does not support layers and other stuff, it would be much more limited than TIFF. But because Photoshop edits are not non-destructive metadata, the result would be that the edited pixels would be packed in a DNG envelope. Photoshop cannot work directly with raw data, but there is no reason why it could not export an RGB file as DNG. The original RGB data are written to the DNG, so the DNG will simply not be a raw file in that case. If the original is not a raw image, then it works the same way. I think refusing to save as camera format, no matter how much it SEEMS a good idea, is very definitely the right thing to do, and people will just have to find a different convenient workflow. I wonder if people are aware that allowing save of edited files as to mosaiced (camera format) DNG would be destroying 75% of the colour info, way worse than saving as JPEG. ![]()
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