What's the difference?

OK, be kind to me I admit I'm a computer dummy.
What is the difference between Save, Save as, and Convert and save in DPP?

From what I understand, Save stores the editing info (recipe) in the image exif data but that editing will not be "seen" by other applications. Save As creates a copy of the original image, stores the above info, in the same way, and the original will be unchanged. So, you open the original in DPP and it will look as it did before editing, but the copy will show the edits in DPP. In outside applications they will both look like the original.

Convert and Save and Batch Processing actually convert the image to the edited version as a new file, tiff or jpeg, so that edits will be applied. Note that batch processing is not the same as copying a "recipe" from one image to a batch of images -- you have to do that before the Batch/Convert operation.

By the way, DPP does have Help as well as a Users Guide, which is very helpful to read!

Tony is right.
In addition, just about the only time I use "Save as" is when I need two different renderings of a Raw file, and I absolutely need to save the settings used.

Then again, in a case like that, I'd more likely save a recipe or use ACR and open as a smart object in PS.

Might be that someone else knows of a good reason for "save as" though

It's traditional. Every program has Save As. If DPP didn't have it, nobody would buy Canons.

tzalman wrote in post #10458485
It's traditional. Every program has Save As. If DPP didn't have it, nobody would buy Canons.

Heh! Yeah, it does throw people off, though, when they give "traditional" names to functions that definitely do not function as one expects!