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I've read articles that suggest that a standardized file suitable for editing would be a good idea to work across different with the suggestion being .dng. Sounds good to me and photoshop acr will let me save my work as a .dng file and open the file to work in photoshop. But I can't save it from PS as a dng file. Also, the file name shown on the tab in PS still has an arw extension (sony). I've decided to do my initial save from acr as a .psd since PS won't let me save as dng, but I don't fully understand the process because of the file extension that photoshop displays (the arw).


Please explain what is going on. When I go into PS from arw, I assume that I am working in the file format that I saved (PSD), but might still be working on the raw file directly. I might be better off just getting rid of the arw file once it gets into another lossless format, but am not comfortable in modifying the source document. I do realize that the changes I make in acr are copied to a xmp file.


Can you suggest an efficient workflow that addresses these concerns. Doesn't make any sense to save the raw file as a .dng if the only editor I am using won't let me save it.



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