On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:07 PM, paul stenquist wrote: > >> There's really nothing confusing here. If you shoot RAW, you convert to a >> tiff or jpeg and save the unadulterated RAW. That's the way it will work >> with either Elements or Lightroom. They won't overwrite the RAW. On the >> other hand, if you shoot jpegs and do some editing in elements, you would >> have to save your edited version with a different filename to avoid writing >> over your original. Lightroom, on the other hand, won't overwrite the >> original.
That's a simplification, but in practical terms it is accurate. > Thanks very much, Paul. It's beginning to sound like I might save myself a > lotta trouble down the road if I went ahead right now and got myself a copy > of LR at the cheapest price I can find. I highly recommend doing that, and doing the tutorial videos etc. I would invite you to sign up for my upcoming new image management/image processing workshops but you're a bit distant to make that practical (I'm in California, you're in Georgia ...). I'd enjoy finding a venue in your neighborhood and a body of students to attend about a six or seven session workshop series to fund doing a workshop series on the road ... ! I do have a few articles on topics about Photoshop, LIghtroom and Aperture available on-line for download ... see http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ I'm writing more ... :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
