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Author Topic: Exporting RAW from Lightroom v6 with adjustments  (Read 4346 times)
GreggP
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« on: October 21, 2015, 08:00:37 PM »

Is it possible to export a RAW file from Lightroom into QImage WITH the Lightroom adjustments? I like to use Lightroom to organize my photos and have grown to really like the develop features. I find the editing features in Lightroom a lot easier to use than in QImage. However, I still prefer QImage's printing capabilities over Lightroom. It would be great if there was a QImage printing plug-in for Lightroom..

I don't print the majority of my photos, so I'm not a heavy QImage Ultimate user. Also, I just recently upgraded to a nice DSLR (Canon 7D) so am a recent convert to Lightroom processing with RAW files. I do appreciate the advanced editing capabilities of QImage (specifically DFS sharpening) and would like to utilize some of these features, but only after making initial adjustments in Lightroom.

Anyhow, I specified qimage.exe as an external program and added QImage to my export process. I can choose from two different RAW formats - DNG or CR2 (this is the Canon RAW format from my camera and is used when the file export format is set to 'Original'). When I use 'Original' I get both the CR2 file and the XML file with the edit data. QImage doesn't recognize the XML file, so the adjustments are lost. If I select DNG, I don't get the XML file.

So is the only way to use both Lightroom and QImage in my workflow and retain the Lightroom adjustments, to export to a non-RAW format like JPG or TIFF?
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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2015, 07:41:16 AM »

Hi Greg,
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Is it possible to export a RAW file from Lightroom into QImage WITH the Lightroom adjustments?
Yes and no!
Yes: as you say, you have to convert the image to a jpeg or Tiff. No, exporting the raw will not work.
I don't think there are any raw programs that accept the raw adjustments of another. I could say, why does LR not accept the .qrs and .flt "sidecar" files of QU for raw and image editor adjustments! Not that I'd want to do that.  Shocked

QU does do most of what LR can do, including organising images in a database, excellent but simple raw processing, as well as a very good image editor with it's amazing Deep Focus Sharpening (= goodbye sharpening artifacts) and Tone Targeted Sharpening.

Terry
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