White balance is, in most cases, applied to linear data, so linearization is done before white balance. Traditional approach to demosaicking is also to apply it to linear data, so linearization quite often precedes demosaicking. That makes linearization the first step of raw processing.
White balance is, in most cases, applied to linear data, so linearization is done before white balance. Traditional approach to demosaicking is also to apply it to linear data, so linearization quite often precedes demosaicking. That makes linearization the first step of raw processing.