[Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

Who would have thought that ANY editing tool ( written, image, sound, or
other) would ever destroy the original to make edits......?

I have Elements 4.0 and even that Adobe product saves the original and makes
changes to a copy......unless you wish to overwrite the original.

This is precisely why I ask question of all you good folk out there.....
some of this stuff is so basic, I would hardly think anyone would do
otherwise..... than a logical path.

It is interesting to find that LR does everything at once..... I am not used
to that and I am not so sure that it makes sense, if you are working 1 image
at a time.....  It is a fantastic idea for multiple images... but in truth,
who does that?  Wouldn't that be an issue of a single "roll" with identical
post processing needs?

Thanks everyone for having patience.....

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net



The fact that when 
you open a file in Photoshop you are then making changes to that 
(opened) file at each step as opposed to Lightroom where you are 
creating a series of instructions that only get applied at the time 
of exporting makes a difference if a number of different things have 
to get done to a file. 

In either case, the original file is not changed, but file used in 
the intermediate stages has been degraded by Photoshop but not by 
Lightroom.