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Things are not done to RAW file. Data in RAW file is converted into RGB image. This RGB image may be save into an image file like Tiff and Jpeg or transfered into Photoshop. When demosaicing the raw data into a RGB image the RAW converter can create the RGB image in 8 or 16 bit color mode in a standard color spaces like Prophoto, Adobe and s RGB. During the conversion process most RAW converters can apply filters like noise reduction, lens correction, white balance adjustment, curves, sharpening, exposure and others. I would not get to aggressive with noise reduction and sharpening. During RAW conversion.
If you are going to print your images on a wide gamut printer to get the most out of your image convert the raw data in a wide color gamut color space in 16 Bit mode.
If you are just going to be using your images on the web, viewed on computers and printed by a lab that wants you images as sRGB jpeg files. You might as well just convert to 8 Bit sRGB images in the first place. Your editing time will be shorter for the editor will be processing half as many bites in 8 bit color mode and you also do have to convert from a wide color space to sRGB when your saving image files.
Edited on Dec 07, 2007 at 01:49 AM
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