Edit RAW in (or via) iPhoto

[basbr]

What I understand from reading the forum is that iPhoto 6 supports RAW for importing (and viewing?) without changing it to JPEG. But when you edit the photo (exposure, brightness, etc.) iPhoto automatically creates a JPEG duplicate. Did I get it right?

Why then would you work with RAW? I mean, RAW files edit much better than JPEGs, so when iPhoto creates a JPEG all advantages are gone...

I read this can be solved by using another program for editing (an iPhoto 6 feauture), but then you're not able to just hit "Done" and get the edited RAW back in iPhoto.

Any chance that iPhoto 7 will be able to actually edit in the RAW format?

 

[66217]

You'll be much happier if you buy Aperture.

iPhoto is quite a bad program for editing.

 

[robbieduncan]

Nothing can edit RAW. Not even Aperture or Lightroom (I have Aperture). RAW is just the raw sensor data. To make any sort of usable picture from a RAW image it needs to be demosaiced and interpreted. Things like Aperture do this live and in "real-time" so adjustments made to the decode are taken straight from the RAW image. All non-decode adjustments are then made in a full floating-point space to ensure maximum data retention.