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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian" data-source="post: 246804" data-attributes="member: 17621"><p>Yes- it makes a huge difference, especially when converting color images to monochrome. When simulating a filter, you are throwing away much of the data collected in pixels being "filtered out". Having the raw data available gives much more information for the software to make use of when doing the conversion. JPEG images have sharpening applied, and reduce the intensity values of each pixel to 0:255. Raw values are 0:16383, gives much more to work with before the image looks "posterized". When experimenting with Silver Efex- I found images that had sharpening applied look horrible when converted using a simulated Red filter. Edges looked jagged. Turning sharpening off fixed that issue. Raw images allowed much more experimentation, "Almost" anything your camera can do in-camera, Lightroom can do in Post.</p></blockquote><p></p>