Hello All,
I find myself buried in yet another state of post processing confusion. I do my raw processing in ACR and always have it set to Adobe RGB and 16 bit mode. I use those same exact settings in cs5 as well. So from what I've learned, it's always best to do as much editing as you can in raw, because that's where the most information from the original image is accessible and available. I love using Photoshop, however, because of its vast amount of versatility and flexibility. So if I adjust a raw file in ACR, and then open it in Photoshop, it still opens it in cr2 format (and still in Adobe RGB 16 bit). With that being said, wouldn't any edits done inside of Photoshop be acting on the same exact image information as in raw? In other words, if I don't do any curves or contrast adjustments etc. in raw but do them in Photoshop instead, how is it any different? If I switched to 8 bit mode once inside of cs5 then I would understand, but if bit mode and color space are the same am I losing anything?
