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Non-destructive editing

This is where you don’t make any direct changes to the pixels in a photo, but save processing instructions alongside it. These instructions are used to change the appearance of the photo when it’s displayed and edited but are not applied permanently unless you export a new, ‘processed’ image. Photoshop started the idea of non-destructive editing with its adjustment layers, but other programs have now implemented it fully, so that Lightroom, Capture One, ON1 Photo RAW and a number of other photo-editing tools are now fully non-destructive.

Non-destructive editing and how it works

August 16, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Traditional photo editing is ‘destructive’. That means every adjustment you make permanently changes the pixels in the photo and there’s no way back unless you’ve saved a copy of the original and you’re willing to start again. ‘Non-destructive’ editing is fully reversible. You can go back and undo or redo all of your editing work […]

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