So generally speaking it’s a bad idea to take photos on the round-trip of Import, Edit, Export, Re-Import, Edit, Export, and so on. You can return 5 years later and undo or redo any edit on an image. But the whole advantage of LR is its a parametric editor- edits are stored as parameters in your catalog, and the original file is never modified. Personally I would soft-proof and print directly from LR.īut also later I could import it to Lightroom/NLP for additional tinkering if necessaryĮxporting bakes in your edits to a new copy of your image. Keep in mind Lightroom Classic has a powerful printing module. Just like you would export any other final edit of an image from Lightroom: On a related issue: How would I export an NLP photo outside of the world of Lightroom (with its catalogs and collections and folders and what-not), so that I could display it, print it, and enjoy it when I no longer have a Lightroom subscription Its only benefit would be providing slightly more editing flexibility. However, it would not result in any significant file size benefits over TIF, as it would triple the amount of data stored for each raw pixel as compared to the original raw. #EDITING RAW FROM LIGHTROOM TO IRIDIENT DEVELOPER SOFTWARE#This opens a hypothetical possibility that in the future software like NLP could export a Linear DNG instead of a TIF. #EDITING RAW FROM LIGHTROOM TO IRIDIENT DEVELOPER CODE#I know of one enterprising developer- Brian Griffith of Iridient Software- who has written his own low-level code that can take a manufacturer’s raw file, apply transformations, and export it as a special kind of DNG, a Linear DNG, where the raw data has been demosaiced and optionally sharpened but had no further processing. DNGs are just the original file’s raw data with the edit “recipe” parameters included (but not baked in- the ACTUAL raw data is still in its original form). Lightroom DOES allow exporting DNG raws, but that’s just for archival purposes or sharing raw files amongst fellow photo editors. The discussion above was regarding DNG raw files. Neither Lightroom nor any other raw processor can export an “edited” CR2– that’s not what CR2s are designed for. They are an unmodified dump of raw data numbers from a canon sensor. NLP is software that extends Adobe Lightroom via Lightroom’s plug-in interface.Īdobe Lightroom, being a parametric editor, does not change original raw file pixels but instead collects one’s edits into a “recipe” that is applied when exporting the final image as JPG, TIF, or PNG (and also shows the results of the edits to you in real time while you’re editing).īut CR2 raw files are not final images.
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