Lightroom is capable to convert JPGs into DNG. The DNG Converter unfortunately currently is not. Please add JPG support to the Adobe DNG Converter. Thank you very much for considering!
1Things and needs change over time and there is a valid need for the DNG Converter to convert jpg's and tiffs.
2 Again, things change over time... The need is huge for this to happen.
3 This is true, however, in the professional world of photography, the software written out there rely's on the dng converter and we pro's rely on it as well. Sure there are other ways around it all, but it is slower, much slower and time is something none of us can buy more of.
4 Thanks for your service. Im sure PS is better because of you. Believe me when I tell you that I'm very grateful for those like you who can help make my world easier. I've been a pro shooter for over 40 years now and have shot for many of the top businesses and magazines, including National Geographic Society, Life Magazine, IBM, etc. Much of what I can do today, I could do in the film days. It's just that in those days what takes me seconds today took me weeks then. Please help us get this done.
>>1Things and needs change over time and there is a valid need for the DNG Converter to convert jpg's and tiffs.<<
Why? The purpose is to convert proprietary raws to DNG for free, so users can access those DNG's in older versions of Adobe software.
READ: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/adobe-dng-converter.html The Adobe DNG Converter enables you to easily convert camera-specific raw files from supported cameras to a more universal DNG raw file. Another benefit of using the DNG Converter is backward compatibility.
YOU want to convert JPEG's to DNG (and there's hardly any reason to do so), there are two products from Adobe that do that and have for years and years.
Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
DNG is an open standard, a variant of TIFF which is also open. I don't understand why the people wanting this can't hire a developer or pay someone like the ImageMagik developers to add this capability.
You cannot make a "silk purse from a sow's ear" as the saying goes. TBMK Placing (converting) a JPG file in the DNG 'wrapper' does nothing to make it more accessible or more useful to image editors. It is still a JPG RGB file! (Except for Lr-Mobile users that can 'extract' develop adjustments and create Dev Presets from a DNG.)
We are well aware of this. I need it for LRTimelapse because of the way DNG files are designed. This feature is already implemented in Lightroom itself (you can convert / wrap a JPG sequence to into DNG containers in Lightroom) that's why I'm asking to please allow this in the DNG Converter itself also. It would tremendously help many timelapse photographers.
I agree with Gunter. There should be no reason to be non-inclusive with any capabilities of this program unless the thought is to profit further off of greed and control. Please consider this request seriously.
Content-aware editing was a technical limitation. JPEG conversion is a business limitation. And seriously, by now you could have hired a programmer and had a working converter that you could presumably sell.
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