Basic Photoshop settings for RAW JPEG conversion.. EX2F?

William Hubert wrote:

Everyone has their own way for dealing with raw files. I always shoot raw.

although others may disagree this is the methodology that I utilize.

I bring the raw files into Adobe light room and immediately change them to DNG raw files. This allows me to make changes to how the raw file will be displayed without ever making actual changes to the initial information. This way you can always have your original image to work with yet you can make many different variants of the same image.

... This is not special to DNG.  Maybe LR only supports doing so with DNG though?  I'm not terribly familiar with LR.

by using the DNG raw file format I help assure that future programs will be able to read by raw files.

I'm not sure why DNG would ensure that moreso than many other formats.  If they drop support for the native format... then how would you continue getting your new files into DNG format?  And wouldn't you always have the option of using the old program to do so at a later time if it became an issue?  Maybe not with for favorite software I suppose, if one loses a license key, etc.. it's a non-issue for those using open source software though (e.g. Rawtherapee).

Additionally using this format stores in one file my original image and my listing of changes to that image. I do not need to have a sidecar file alongside of my raw file.

Sidecar files are actually somewhat safer as a failed write would not destroy the original file.  Granted, this is rare and management may be slightly easier without the sidecars.

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