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I have two good reasons for processing non-raw files in ACR.
First is for "fixing" jpegs I inherit from other photogs where no raw is available. Does not happen often, but recently a niece got married. As the master family
photographer (with a website), everyone sent me their P&S jpegs. I got about 1,000 jpegs, even some from decent cameras.
These culled down to about 200 keepers, but those keepers needed fixin. Mostly white balance, minor exposure corrections, and cropping. Some needed red-eye fixes. Some needed local adjustments, like highlight recovery only on the bride's dress.
ACR was certainly the best tool for the task, especially when the same correction (WB) needed to be made to several photos in a sequence. One photog had over agressive sharpening set in her camera. A -10 clarity setting in ACR made a big improvement.
After I finished ACR adjustments, I used the Image Processor to batch the images into a new set of jpegs for uploading to the web. From there they went to prints, Facebook pages, and who knows where else. Yeah, they are not the best quality, but when life hands you lemons....
My second use of ACR on non-raw is for cropping. When I'm completely finished processing an image I save the result as a flat tif. I then open that flat tif in ACR and apply a crop. I can use the snapshot feature of ACR to save multiple crops. They are non-destructive. At any time I can clear the crop to get back to the full frame image.
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