- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
There's your problem, mate.The ARW get converted to DNG when I import the images in Lightroom (by choice. I don't want to deal with .XMP files). I use the sRGB colour space because I don't have a colour calibrator that can handle OLED screen properly. And AdobeRGB is far from being universal though it's a bit bette now with HDR supportbecoming more universal though with Rec. 907 colour space DCIP (I think) more common.
When I pass through (as the final edit step) Topaz DeNoise AI the files gets converted to .TIFF with 16-bit ProPhotoRGB colour space to retain as much as possible accuracy.
Always go from high bit depth (16), wide gamut, RAW to low bit depth (8), narrow gamut, JPEG - in that order.
If you reverse the order, you irreparably damage the file. Not the RAW file, of course, but all derivative files.
One cannot convert an sRGB file to a wider gamut, only the other way.