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Is PhotoDirector a non-destructive editor?
Ignacio18 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Apr 15, 2020 00:00 Messages: 3 Offline
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Lightroom and other professional-level are touted as being "non-destructive". Is PhD also non-destructive?

I am not sure whether any time I open an image file and manipulate it ("edit" it, maybe by flipping the image over or something like that) in any photo editor which is NOT "non-destructive" I am actually somehow destroying the file.
doesn't a "destruction" happen only until I decide to save/export the image file? does actually making any change while open in the editor change the file itself? Isn't what we see in an editor only a rendering of what is kept in the RAM, but not the actual file in the hard disk? If this is the case, why would it suffer any destruction?

Thank you
optodata
Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline
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Yes. All edits are done to virtual copies of the original, so nothing you do in PhD will have any impact on your source images.
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