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"The reason why a photo saved as DNG on my MacBook in Lightroom preserves the colors as they were before editing might be due to what?"
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Lightroom makes no changes to the raw file itself.
All your adjustments are saved as text instructions in the Lightroom catalog. Those adjustments only take effect when the file si rendered out as an RGB file.
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