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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 492540" data-attributes="member: 9240">From the beginning, &quot;Lightroom&quot; was designed to be a form of digital darkroom, hence the name (get it?!).&nbsp; That in mind, think of film and the darkroom.&nbsp; You didn't produce copies of negatives with adjustments, you made prints from them.&nbsp; Lightroom's catalog allows you to save those print settings from your negative, including multiple virtual copies with different treatments.&nbsp; A RAW file is simply a digital negative that you can print a million times in a million different ways - but the negative never changes.&nbsp; Print settings are saved in the catalog until you're ready to actually print it - either using the thing you stick paper in, or digitally for sharing as a file.&nbsp; Digital printing is simply an Export.&nbsp; Around LR 4 it had gained enough functionality and industry&nbsp; acceptance that it began to replace Bridge as the preferred tool for&nbsp; Adobe loyalists, particular for its catalog maintenance functionality. It's not intuitive to the computer user and never was designed to be - it was supposed to be intuitive to the photographer moving from film to digital.&nbsp; If you want to look at it as preventing you from overwriting your file then you're looking at it all wrong.It's a great tool if you bother to take the time to learn it.&nbsp; If all you've ever used was a hammer then everything looks like a nail.And for those who are reading this and thinking, &quot;Sh*t, I don't want a&nbsp; tool that's backwards and makes me use export instead of save...&quot;,&nbsp; that's not what it does unless it's the only tool you're using.&nbsp; If you used Photoshop, choose Edit In&nbsp; and it opens the file with your develop settings applied in Photoshop&nbsp; as a Tiff, PSD or JPEG - whatever you have specified in the settings,&nbsp; and it will automatically save the resulting file into your catalog when&nbsp; you're done with the edits.&nbsp; You can even apply additional develop&nbsp; settings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 492540, member: 9240"] From the beginning, "Lightroom" was designed to be a form of [I]digital darkroom[/I], hence the name (get it?!). That in mind, think of film and the darkroom. You didn't produce copies of negatives with adjustments, you made prints from them. Lightroom's catalog allows you to save those [I]print settings[/I] from your negative, including multiple virtual copies with different treatments. A RAW file is simply a digital negative that you can print a million times in a million different ways - but [I]the negative never changes[/I]. Print settings are saved in the catalog until you're ready to actually [I]print[/I] it - either using the thing you stick paper in, or digitally for sharing as a file. Digital printing is simply an Export. Around LR 4 it had gained enough functionality and industry acceptance that it began to replace Bridge as the preferred tool for Adobe loyalists, particular for its catalog maintenance functionality. It's not intuitive to the computer user and never was designed to be - it was supposed to be intuitive to the photographer moving from film to digital. If you want to look at it as preventing you from overwriting your file then you're looking at it all wrong. It's a great tool if you bother to take the time to learn it. If all you've ever used was a hammer then everything looks like a nail. And for those who are reading this and thinking, "Sh*t, I don't want a tool that's backwards and makes me use export instead of save...", that's [I]not[/I] what it does unless it's the [I]only[/I] tool you're using. If you used Photoshop, choose [B]Edit In[/B] and it opens the file with your develop settings applied in Photoshop as a Tiff, PSD or JPEG - whatever you have specified in the settings, and it will automatically save the resulting file into your catalog when you're done with the edits. You can even apply additional develop settings. [/QUOTE]

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