Educate Me Please

[mdaddyrabbit]

When I open a RAW photo in Photoshop CS and edit it, it completes and goes to the normal jpeg. Will someone explain to me what I'm doing here, never used RAW till I got the 20D. Do I print the RAW or jpeg also when I edit the RAW does the corrections reflect to the jpeg?

[Belmondo]

After you convert the RAW image, it becomes a Photoshop Document. Then, you would choose a format in which to save it (or you can leave it as a Photoshop document). You can save in any one of a number different formats including JPEG, TIFF, GIF, and so forth. JPEG is most common, but can loose image data, especially at higher levels of compression. TIFF is lossless, but will create considerably larger files.

Once you convert from RAW, you can print the image, regardless of format, but you can't print directly from RAW.