External Editing Soft Images

I import Canon Raw files from my 5D's into Lightroom on my Mac. I have noticed that when I edit them in Photoshop that the grain in the image which I have deliberately put there is too soft in the resulting Tiff. If I export as a DNG then edit that as a tiff through Bridge the resulting Tiff is very crisp.
Can anyone help?
Robert

Ihave tried the save thing and it makes no difference.
Here is what I do.
1. Import Canon raw file.
2. Turn it to greyscale.
3. Alter the channels until I get a grainy image
4. Right mouse click and select Edit in PShop
5. The grain in the resulting image is very soft
If I:- do steps one to 3 then
4. Export as dng
5. Open dng in Bridge
6. Open dng in PShop
7. resulting file has sharp crisp grain.

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