Exporting RAW Photos

[*Sdashner9640 Profile]

I am shooting in RAW. I edit the photos and it doesn't give an option to save them in RAW? Only JPEG, TIFF, AND PNG. Even when I select PNG, I notice it goes from 19MB to 11MB. This is significant! I selected original sizing, but that doesn't help. How can I export my edited photo with the actual image size?
Please help! Editing wedding photos!

[admin]

The RAW file format is intended only for cameras to create. You can think of it as once they are edited, they are not RAW anymore. If you want to save your 16 bit image with no loss of information, save it as a 16 bit Tiff. (RAW files are often implemented as a variant of tiff anyway).

Kind regards

Tony