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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 448172" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Right, you surely want to keep your xmp files (which is the the saved list of all edits made), unless you want to start all over from scratch. Deleting the xmp file loses all your previous edits (but you never lose the original raw unless you delete it). Another way to start over is to select Camera Raw Defaults (it clears the list of edit instructions).</p><p></p><p>Raw files are never modified. What is saved is the list of your edits that you selected (which are saved in that xmp file). When you make more changes, you are simply changing the list of the edits (you are not shifting tones around, you are not changing pixels at al, you are simply modifying the list of edit commands). The results of those saved edits are shown to you when you open the raw editor again, you are still where you were. The edits are finally actually implemented only in the JPG or TIF copy that you output from raw, for the ultimate uses of the image.</p><p></p><p>It is called lossless editing. You can even uncrop by simply clearing any crop you made previously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 448172, member: 12496"] Right, you surely want to keep your xmp files (which is the the saved list of all edits made), unless you want to start all over from scratch. Deleting the xmp file loses all your previous edits (but you never lose the original raw unless you delete it). Another way to start over is to select Camera Raw Defaults (it clears the list of edit instructions). Raw files are never modified. What is saved is the list of your edits that you selected (which are saved in that xmp file). When you make more changes, you are simply changing the list of the edits (you are not shifting tones around, you are not changing pixels at al, you are simply modifying the list of edit commands). The results of those saved edits are shown to you when you open the raw editor again, you are still where you were. The edits are finally actually implemented only in the JPG or TIF copy that you output from raw, for the ultimate uses of the image. It is called lossless editing. You can even uncrop by simply clearing any crop you made previously. [/QUOTE]
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