Photo Persona with embedded RAW file layer

[Revanian]

When choosing to develop with an embedded RAW and then going back into the Photo Persona, are any edits made still respecting the increased dynamic range and other characteristics of the RAW file or are they developed into a compressed format to work with once in the Photo Persona regardless?

I'm asking since recovering shadows, applying an HSL, etc. selectively could be done better with the Photo Persona's selection brush, which the Develop Persona lacks. However if I'm not able to have that same extended range that I would in the Develop Persona then it's not ideal.

[Old Bruce]

Just now, Revanian said:

However if I'm not able to have that same extended range that I would in the Develop Persona then it's not ideal.

The range in the Photo persona is dependant on the bit depth. I find going from my raw files' 12 bits and processing to a 16 bit output gives me plenty of room for further processing in the Photo persona.

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, Revanian said:

I'm asking since recovering shadows, applying an HSL, etc. selectively could be done better with the Photo Persona's selection brush, which the Develop Persona lacks.

The Develop Persona does have the Overlay Brush, though, which provides a similar function to the Selection Brush in the Photo Persona.

[Revanian]

2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

The range in the Photo persona is dependant on the bit depth. I find going from my raw files' 12 bits and processing to a 16 bit output gives me plenty of room for further processing in the Photo persona.

What I meant was the dynamic range when editing akin to editing a RAW vs say a jpg file. The amount of detail you're able to recover is far less in the jpg. Where do you go to choose to edit in the Photo persona in 16 bit? To my knowledge this was only selected when outputting the file like a Tiff and at this point the edits would have already been made. I am trying to understand if it's still being handled like a RAW file in the Photo persona once I click develop using the embedded RAW option.

Just now, walt.farrell said:

The Develop Persona does have the Overlay Brush, though, which provides a similar function to the Selection Brush in the Photo Persona.

Yes, but it's not as good imo.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Revanian said:

Where do you go to choose to edit in the Photo persona in 16 bit?

When you Open a RAW file, and Develop it, you have either an RGB/16 or an RGB/32 file, depending on your Develop Assistant settings.

[Revanian]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

When you Open a RAW file, and Develop it, you have either an RGB/16 or an RGB/32 file, depending on your Develop Assistant settings.

Thanks for this, I had overlooked it.