Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can dig it! THANKS! mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:54:02 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping? > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information