ppage wrote:
As I mentioned, I was strictly speaking, perhaps too much so. There is no way to take a raw file and in one step, convert it into a jpg. You have to open it in an intermediate application, (lightroom or Photoshop) then save it as a jpg. There are other file types in technology(but not many) that can be converted straight over to another file type but a cr2 or dng file cannot be or converted to a jpg without intermediate steps. I do the same thing every day to get jpg's. We all do it. Precisely because there is no one step process or something as easy as change the file extension. I can change a .doc file to a .txt file by changing the extension. Will it complain? Yes. Will it look funny? Yes. But it will open and be usable. If I did that to a .cr2 or a .dng, I would have an unusable file on my hands.
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This discussion appears to me to be a matter of semantics. Change, Convert, Save As - convenient ways to say the same thing! We have a RAW file, we want a .jpg of that same image. Depending on where we open it, we have to Export [LR] or Save As [PS] in order to extract that .jpg from the RAW file. With or without first editing! Unless you shoot in both RAW and .jpg, which IS an instantaneous creation of a .jpg from the RAW, I agree - you have to go through some external program to do that. Whether it is LR, PS, or some other conversion program!