>>3896766I personally like saving raws separately to any rendered images.
But... I save my edited images as .jpeg, usually at 95% quality.
The main advantage to a .png is lossless compression. But the main limitation is the colourspace. The .png file format only supports 24bit RGB or 32bit RGBA (transparency layer).
This is as opposed to jpeg, which can encode its own colour space depending on the image. The two common ones being sRGB and Adobe RGB.
You may like to look into Jpeg 2000 - an upgrade to the jpeg standard intended for professional photographers that... got very poor use and support...
Most software that does rasterisation rendering can make Jpeg 2000 files, but good luck finding something that'll support it.
The next generation replacement is Jpeg XL, a standard that should be losslessly compressed, offer a much wider selection of colour spaces and save more dynamic range, and even enable SOOC logarithmic profiles (log profiles are already seen in video, and provide maximum dynamic range at the cost of washing out colours - colour grading is required, often working from a manufacturer LUT).
Jpeg XL was finalised in December 2020, so it may take time for it to really replace jpeg, but there's a risk that the legacy format will continue to overshadow the new format.
