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The beauty of LR is that all it does is 'write recipes' which means, essentially, that nothing is done on a pixel level to your image until you export it.
You can see that by going to the develop module and looking under the history tab which is on the left hand side of the screen. All of those 'states' are just directions telling LR what to do to the image but nothing actually happens to it until you export it.
Do something to your image.
Want to undo it?
Move up a state.
Want to undo several things?
Move up several states.
Want to try several things on the same image?
Make a virtual copy (command and apostrophe on the mac). Voila! You have a virtual copy and can manipulate that one to your heart's content and again, nothing REALLY happens until it's exported.
And even once it is exported you can go back to LR and click on the state the 'import' state and there's your original file, good as new without a thing in the world done to it.
LR is one of the coolest, best programs in the world for photographers. I'd give up PS before I'd give up LR.
Lea
Ok Saved me tons of time trying to find a way to do it. Lea IF you use the crop tool and export, does it change the original file so that when you go back to the original its also cropped and resized and from there on out you are ________ out of luck? If you resize on export, does that alter the original??
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Subject: Re: Aperture?
From: Don Roberts < droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, February 09, 2010 11:13 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
< photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
You can only resize in LR when you export the image. Awkward but that's it.
Don
On 2/9/10 10:45 AM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Lightroom right now has a free public beta for the new version 3.0. Bridge is more or less a browser that comes with Photoshop and though useful, not nearly as capable as either Lightroom or Aperture.
The beta is a public that does not require a purchased version of lightroom in order to work. I downloaded it and some things it does very well. Some of what I like also might be in more recent versions of photoshop too. One thing I didn't see is a way to resize an image in Lightroom. Anyone know if that can be done???
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Aperture? From: Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, February 09, 2010 9:53 am To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I see Apple is releasing Aperture 3. Does anyone use this software or has Lightroom or Bridge or some other program taken over? I hear little about Aperture it seems.
Don
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