Originally Posted by
DanK
I think what George was saying is that at this stage, it is no longer a raw image, regardless of what you did or didn't do in the conversion software. To render the image viewable, the conversion software is applying some processing algorithms to the photo. Not being a Raw Therapy user, I have no idea what those might be. I use Lightroom, and it gives you several different options for this initial rendering, some using Adobe's own rendering intents and others that emulate the picture styles the camera would use to create in-camera JPEGs. In any case, it is just a starting point and does not affect the underlying raw file. You can impose whatever you want, and some of what you impose will undo what the software initially did.