Chapter Seven. Processing Raw Source Files
It is often a good idea to use raw (or DNG) photographic files as the starting point for your composite images. The tools provided by Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), when combined with a well-exposed raw image, offer unrivaled editing flexibility. When processed properly, DNG and raw files can result in enhanced tone, range, detail, and color in your final composite.
Although today’s Digital SLRs can produce beautiful JPEG files that you can edit with ACR, JPEGs are still fundamentally 8-bit files with a compression scheme applied. They also are captured to a color space (sRGB) that is somewhat inferior to other color spaces you can apply natively when outputting a raw image from ACR (such as Adobe RGB or ProPhoto ...
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