Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:02 AM 8/17/2008, you wrote: >As far as this non destructive thing goes its great but now with disk space >not at a premium the old open the file and then do a safe as works fine to. >You never work on the original file. Or only do basic tweaks to it. > >mark@rabinergroup.com OK - Here is Martin Evening's explanation about non-destructive work in LR: "..one of the key advantages of LR is that you can apply a crop, spot the image, adjust the color, do some more retouch, readjust the crop again, and so on without every touching the pixels in the original photograph. In a conventional pixel-editing workflow, the pixels are always modified in a consecutive sequence of steps. When you work in LR, no restrictions are placed on the order in which you do things and the edit changes you make in the Develop module are only applied when you export a photo as a rendered file, such as a TIFF or JPEG image.... The Lightroom image processing engine ultimately reduces all of its pixel calculations into a single calculation by the most direct route possible to produce a mathematically purer, processed result, in which any image degradation is minimized." I'm all for minimizing image degradation!! Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com