Which EOS 6D MarkII settings apply to RAW files vs JPEG?

[mbs5380]

I'm curios and, frustratingly, Canon's documentation doesn't make things clear.  I always take my photos in RAW mode and use Adobe Lightroom to edit.  It seems clear that "auto-lighting optimizar" only applies to the CANON generated jpeg image and is thus irrelevent in Lightroom.  It seems like the Lens aberration correction settings also only apply to CANON generated jpeg and are also irrelevent in Lightroom. 

I'm confused about many of the other settings though.  Long exposure noise reduction?  High IS speed noise reduction?  Highlight tone priority?  Are any of these settings of any use when taking RAW photos only?  Do the do anything to alter the RAW file, or are they only applied in the "develop" phase when creating a jpeg?

[ebiggs1]

Open in ACR. Do your edits. PS makes this tag file that is totally seperate from the CR2 so the Raw data is not touched and nothing is ever lost. 

Photoshop for whatever further edits.

  Later, when you save it as a PSD all the original Raw data you had if you do nondestructive edits is still there. Perhaps you are doing your edits destructively. I urge you to avoid that if you are.  The data is lost but only in the PSD not the original CR2 file.  If you decide everything you did was totally wrong all you have to do is open up the CR2 in ACR once again and start over.

What am I not getting? 

[Peter]

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@mbs5380 wrote:
Is this what star photographers usually do?  I see a lot of web sites but nobody ever explains the details of how they actually do the editing.

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Search for Astrophotography Image Processing Using Modern Raw Converters. Happy reading ^^

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@mbs5380 wrote:

I suppose I could do all the other edits first and then remove the noise by subtracting the dark frame as the very last step in photoshop.

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Dark frame substraction should be done before demosaicing. Why? Check the animated GIF file i posted before. It is better to remove 1 hot pixel before demosaicing than 5 after demosaicing. You can read more about dark frames at RawPedia. RawPedia is kind of a manual for RawTherapee, but even if you don't use RawTherapee you will find helpful information there.