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I am exporting an *edited* DBG file from Lightroom - and importing it in Photos
The file imported is the "basic" (original) DNG file... Not the changed / edited....
Is there any setting I am overseeing??... basically I want to import as DNG and not as converted JPEG... and Adobe writes the information in the DNG file itself... but it seems Photos is not reading it?
thanks
When you edit a photo in lightroom, the original file is not changed at all. Lightroom (Like Photos) is a non destructive editor. The edits are recordeed as a list of instructions rather than changing the underlying image data. When you export, those instructions are applied to the raw file to create a final jpg (or other format image)
But it is actually not possible to create an edited raw file. A raw file always holds the raw data exactly as it was out of the camera. That is what raw means.
When you export a raw file with edits, the raw file is exported unchanged and the edits are listed in an xmp file - but again - that is just a list of instructions - which are not compatible with photos.
It might also be possible for the edit list to be embedded in the DNG file - but again that is as a list of instructions, not as edited image data.
When you edit a photo in lightroom, the original file is not changed at all. Lightroom (Like Photos) is a non destructive editor. The edits are recordeed as a list of instructions rather than changing the underlying image data. When you export, those instructions are applied to the raw file to create a final jpg (or other format image)
But it is actually not possible to create an edited raw file. A raw file always holds the raw data exactly as it was out of the camera. That is what raw means.
When you export a raw file with edits, the raw file is exported unchanged and the edits are listed in an xmp file - but again - that is just a list of instructions - which are not compatible with photos.
It might also be possible for the edit list to be embedded in the DNG file - but again that is as a list of instructions, not as edited image data.
"Edits not read"
Are you expecing photos to import edits made in lightroom? It can't do that - even if light room was exporting them.
The editing engine is completely different between lightroom and photos - the edits are not interchangeable.
Thanks for replying
yes I was expecting the DNG fuel to have information about exposure, color etc etc because it is DNG (raw) -
Not *how* the changes were done - ie I am not expecting to undo or change steps - but that the *end* results are exported... ie a Snapshot if the last state in DNG Format
this is down when a file is exported to JPEG...
Even if all adjustment instructions were stored in the DNG file (some cameras are also embedding editing instructions into their RAW files), Photos will ignore them, because it cannot reproduce the effects. It will use the naked RAW data.
makes sense. I thought that the "final" state information was also stored in the DNG... **together** with the original state - thus making it also not destructive.
Thanks!
DNG files - Edits not read
