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Title: Exporting RAW from Lightroom v6 with adjustments Post by: GreggP 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? Title: Re: Exporting RAW from Lightroom v6 with adjustments Post by: Terry-M on October 22, 2015, 07:41:16 AM Hi Greg,
Quote 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. :o 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 |