Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know about light room. but Lightzone save data in a text file, in XML format. as I looked at them. it contians instructions and commands of changes we made in files. its only a couple of bytes. I guess lightroom is using the same technic. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:03 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG < leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > my understanding of the way that .RAW images work is that it creates an > invisible "sidecar" file with the extra information in it -- that it's > still > taking up disk space, but you don't see the file size. is that how it > works? > > > On Nov 24, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Tim Gray wrote: > > > On Nov 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM -0500, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: > >> a layered .psd file is your answer to non-destructive editing in PS. And > the information's all in one file. > > > > True. It also leads to enormous file sizes. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >