RAW Photo Processing in Different Programs

It "Seems" to me that Aperture does not recognize RAW photo processing from another program. I use Canon Digital Photo Professional for downloading and initial processing of my RAW photo's. Again, it seems that when I want to do additional processing of these photo's in Aperture, the original corrective processing in Digital Photo Professional is NOT carried over.
Can someone shed help clarify this for me - Thanks.

It's raw, not RAW. Raw is not an acronym, it is a word meaning unprocessed data. A raw file is the unprocessed data from the camera's sensors. You never even see the raw data. It has to be converted to RGB pixels before you can see it on your monitor. Any editing you do involves either (a) adjusting the parameters used in the conversion, or (b) adjusting the pixels after conversion. No raw processor that I know of changes the original raw data. The changes apply to the converted image. It really makes little sense to adjust an image in one program, and then open the raw file in another and expect to see the adjustments. By the time the adjustments were made, it was no longer raw. If you save as a 16-bit TIFF at full resolution, you lose nothing except disk space. (And perhaps workflow efficiency.)

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