Why do Lightroom edits disappear when I export a DNG and open it in Snapseed?
Asked 3/26/2025
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I’m editing a Google Pixel RAW (.dng) file in Lightroom Mobile, then exporting it as another DNG so I can continue editing in Snapseed. But when Snapseed opens that exported DNG, it shows the original unedited RAW image, while Android Gallery shows the edited preview.
Why does this happen, and is there a way to make Snapseed use the edits from Lightroom?
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Pie Faced
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By my understanding this is because:
- LR mobile export DNG, but because it is RAW format it do not touch the image information but add as meta "instructions" which represent your edits on original file.
- Seems like Snapseed do not care about these instructions and just open RAW information.
- What you can do is to export from LR to TIFF, PNG, JPG and continue edit from these files. The above formats will have applied the edits you did on RAW file.
If Snapseed do support only JPEG do not forget to set the quality of export to maximum to have more information in to the image to work with.
But maybe you should check what presets can do in LR because excluding making composed images I do not see what Snapseed can do and LR can't.
Also maybe you should reconsider your workflow. Use your phone to take images and then return home and edit them.
Originally by Romeo Ninov. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Romeo Ninov
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This happens because a DNG is still a RAW file. Lightroom’s DNG export typically keeps the original RAW image data and stores your Lightroom edits as metadata/instructions rather than baking them into the pixels. Gallery may display the embedded preview, but Snapseed appears to ignore those Lightroom edit instructions and reads the underlying RAW data instead.
So Snapseed is not really “losing” the edits—it just isn’t applying Lightroom’s RAW metadata.
If you want Snapseed to continue from the Lightroom-adjusted image, export from Lightroom to a rendered format such as TIFF, JPEG, or PNG instead of DNG. Those formats have the Lightroom edits applied to the actual image.
If Snapseed only works well with JPEG in your workflow, export at the highest quality setting to preserve as much image information as possible.
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