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I am interested in learning how to do non-destructive editing in Photoshop. First I need to learn how to handle files as one moves images between LR and PS and ACR. willrudd
This is part of why Affinity Photo, Photo RAW, ACDSee, Aftershot and others have come onto the market. They are more or less doing non-destructive raw development plus advanced layers with masks, filters, and adjustments.
With some of those other products you get one program which provides DAM, raw development plus advanced filters, layers, and effects. To do the same with Ps you need ACR for raw development, and Bridge for a DAM. Typically faster and easier to learn on program than 3.
On has to wonder why the output of Ps is a raw plus sidecar if you gave it a raw file to start with.
I typed my previous message. To my knowledge Ps does not offer the ability to write edits as either instructions plus history into a catalog (like default Lr behavior) or as a sidecar (optional Lr behavior). Most of the other 3rd party programs either do a catalog or create their own format of a sidecar.
Well past time for Adobe to address the underlying architecture in these long-in-the-tooth apps.
I ask once again that you do not hijack this thread with anti-Photoshop rhetoric. Feel free to start a new thread on that (but I won't participate).
My point is Ps does not do non-destructive editing, at least like Lr does. There is no output of a sidecar for a raw file. So know the limitations of all the post processing tools you use.
And further to mcasan, some of those products you mention won't be around very long. Their extremely low prices show that they don't understand this market very well. Quite likely they will be out of business in several years. The "positive" part is that Adobe apparently does, to some extent.You are ill informed (and apparently you did not read my answers either). Now let's stop this, please.