Im new to digital photography processing and have a basic question regarding pre and post-develop editing. Given the non-destructive capability of editing with layers post develop, I don’t see any reason to do more than the minimum of global edits available prior to developing. Is there something I am missing?
My understanding is that the “develop" process de-mosaics the individual R, G, or B sensor pixels to uniform pixels each with R, G and B values. From what I read the developed native
Hi Beau, by the time you start editing your image in the Develop persona, it's already been demosaiced. Anything done in Develop offers two technical advantages:
The development is done in 32-bit float, meaning pixel values aren't clipped until you click Develop and move to the Photo persona.
It uses a wide colour space for development called ROMM RGB (essentially ProPhoto), meaning you can intensity colours without clipping them—very useful for imagery with lots of artificial light