OK, at some point in a future new shot, take a screen shot of your "best looking version" in
the
raw converter. Save that as a
jpeg, making sure you use the same color space as you
final "finished" shot. That the second looks "blotchy", compare it with the saved screenshot,
side-by-side in Photoshop, say.
If you don't know how to do this, it's just...
1. When at you last best looking version, capture the screen. (I don't know how in Mac.)
2. In Photoshop, New File from Clipboard (or Mac equivalent).
3. Save in same color space as usual and name it "screeenshot".
4. Then proceed to do the normal version as usual.