I don't think any conversion program destroys the RAW file as a RAW file.
My printers did several tests with TIFF and with JPG files, they came to the
conclusion that if you did all of your work on a TIFF files then converted
it to JPG there is no discernable loss in printing.
Terry L. Mair
Mair's Photography
158 South 580 East
Midway, Ut. 84049
(435)654-3607
www.mairsphotography.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: Re[4]: Converting Raw files
Photoshop keeps the original RAW data also, even if you burn the file
after preparing the interpretation in Adobe Camera RAW.
All I recommend is doing your conversion and saving as a tif. Then
compress your tif with jpeg compression for easy emailing. Of course,
there will be some loss due to the jpegging, but once is not likely to be
devastating to many color files.
If you are a new Adobe Camera RAW user I strongly recommend that you
carefully explore all the items in the menu bar in the browser window.
There are items there specific to RAW conversion which are not in the
Photoshop menu bar. These items contain many of the powerful features of
Adobe Camera RAW.
--
Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/
