Great Joy EF Mount 1.8 Anamorphic Lens: For Stills, how to do a RAW workflow with de-squeeze of anamorphic image?
- By stevelee
- Canon Lenses
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No, of course the TIFF and PSD files are not Raw files. I don't use Lightroom enough to work out the various minuets one might employ in it. But shouldn't smart objects in Photoshop retain their connection to the .cs2 or .cs3 file plus settings sidecars?Once you desqueeze it and save it, its no longer raw. Saving to Tiff or PSD does not result in raw files. You can save as DNG if you select the option to embed the original raw. That makes it a huge file but its one way to get everything in a single file. If you can keep the sidecar file with desqueeze settings with it or incorparate them in the DNG, then you can develop the raw with desqueeze settings from the sidecar. Those settings can't go into the original raw file though.
Adobe Lightroom gives you the option to embed the settings in your DNG file so you can preserve the raw plus the settings. My file size from my R5 went from 54Mb to 115 MB so there is a cost. Its close to actually including the edits in the raw file but just a trick to make it work that way.
And even if not, couldn't you just bring the new Raw edit into the PS file and apply the adjustment layers you have already used on the old smart object? The Raw files don't go away just because you have used them to create something else. The aspect ratio change does produce pixels, but it takes less than 30 seconds to do. So it is not worth jumping through a lot of hoops to keep from having to do it again once you have reedited a photo.
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