Hi Ruchai
A very apt simile, and I think you can go a little further, in as much as besides the meat and veg even the smallest grain of salt and pepper is there in the Raw file for us to manipulate.
I now shoot only in Raw, not because I am anything near an expert photographer, quite the opposite in fact.
The camera which I use is programmed to adjust itself which ever program I use,
ie., in A it chooses S , in S it chooses A in P it chooses A and S, provided I give it a fair idea of the ambient light situation and dial in a reasonable ISO and focus correctly, then the Raw file will contain all the information I require to produce an acceptable photograph.
All my old Raw (negatives) I have stored on disks, and now as I slowly get more proficient with CS, I am returning to those old files and in quite a few cases getting very pleasing images out of them. If I had shot them originally in jpeg I would have junked them and they would have been lost and gone forever
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