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Chene Marx
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February 25, 2021
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Lightroom Not saving my edits in DNG only Jpeg

  • February 25, 2021
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Hi there,

 

Hoping for some help, whenever I edit a picture and export as a jpeg the edits are saved, however when i save as a DNG and go to preview the image in finder it looks like the original unedited image? Any tips?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

David 

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TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
March 12, 2023

BTW, this free script will extract the previews if you want to share them:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/extract-previews-for-lost-images-lightroom.html

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
March 12, 2023

The DNG can't be 'edited' until the edits, and the data in the DNG are rendered. Otherwise, you're viewing a JPEG preview. It can be updated in Lightroom Classic (Update DNG Metadata and Preview command), but in reality, the edit wasn't applied to the raw in the DNG. 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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Chris218117816j4a
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March 12, 2023

So this is just Adobe and Mac not playing nice together, does anyone have a solution? I'd like to export my DNG from lightroom and have my clients be able to see the way the photos should look, not the original raw file, without having to open up some Adobe program. Does anyone have a fix, it didn't used to be like this

 

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2023
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So this is just Adobe and Mac not playing nice together, does anyone have a solution? I'd like to export my DNG from lightroom and have my clients be able to see the way the photos should look, not the original raw file, without having to open up some Adobe program. Does anyone have a fix, it didn't used to be like this

 


By @Chris218117816j4a


Why do you want to export as DNG if the purpose is to let your clients look at the images? DNG is not a logical file format for that. It is much larger than necessary and quite a few clients won't have to possibility to open the DNG. Why don't you use JPG? I also do not understand your remark that "it didn't used to be like this". Yes, it did used to be like that! It has always been like that. That makes me wonder if you perhaps confuse DNG with another file format, such as PNG?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 25, 2021

When you export an image as DNG, you do get the unedited image. The edits are not applied to the image, but saved in metadata. And these metadata can only be read by Adobe software. So what you see is as expected.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
    AxelMatt
    Community Expert
    AxelMattCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 25, 2021

    See here: Edits not saving when exporting DNG files - Adobe Support Community - 11239096

     

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