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Re: Lenses and sharpening

Sandman
SubjectRe: Lenses and sharpening
FromSandman
Date2014-09-19 09:34 (2014-09-19 09:34)
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Eric Stevens (16h & 56m) > Sandman

In article <190920140304492144%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote:

Eric Stevens
And I have pointed out that you cannot reverse a change which has not actually been made. Even if it is reversible, you can't reverse something before you have done it.

nospam
the change *has* been made, just not to the pixels themselves.

Eric Stevens
And to what has the change been made?

Sandman
To the pixels. nospam is incorrect here. All LR adjustments are applied to a preview file and saved to disk.

nospam
the changes are rendered on the fly and may be cached to disk (which is the preview file you're talking about). the latter is optional.

It's not optional. All images in LR are always rendered as previews. They are kept inside your LR library.

it is not a pixel editor.

Sure it is, only in another sense than old Photoshop. Every single adjustment you make in LR are applied to the pixels and saved to disk as a preview image. Difference is that the original file is always kept intact so every step is fully reversible.

In fact - using smart filters in Photoshop is *less* of a pixel editor than LR these days, because the pixels are never touched, it's all kept in RAM and the resulting image is never saved to disk until you export/save it. Also, fully reversible of course. :)

-- Sandman[.net]

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