David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:

Gary Eickmeier wrote:



Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:

Gary Eickmeier wrote:


Obviously, you don't destroy the original when you "Save as" and
put the edited file somewhere else. I typically open my file,
manipulate it as desired, then Save as a TIF so that I don't lose
anything by compressing it more, and so that the original remains
untouched. You aren't actually operating on your original file when
you edit; you are just using the copy of it that you imported into
Photoshop. No destoying is going on, unless you just hit "Save" and
it replaces your camera original.

Gary Eickmeier



The disadvantage of save as is that you end up with multiple
versions of the same file, causing versioning and backup issues.

Cheers,

Wayne


How is it any more versions than your method? And my saved files
don't have multiple layers to save.

Gary Eickmeier


Hi Gary,

It isn't necessarily, but it can be. Before using adjustment layers I
would save the original, a slightly tweaked version and then multiple
versions as I played with the image or parts there of. Since neither
Windows or Mac OS have auto file version numbering (something the Dec
System 20 I was a systems programmer on over 25 years ago even had) I
tack a version number on the end of the file name. With adjustment
layers I find that number reduced, since I may include multiple
adjustment layers that I leave turned on or off in the one file version.

Photoshop CS loads something in my system tray called Adobe Version Cue
which presumably handles this. I think it's more important in workgroups.

There's been some argument now and then about maybe adding version
numbering to Sun's ZFS filesystem, and it got interesting with the old
TOPS-20 hacks saying how simple and useful it was an other people saying
how it would pollute your directories and make everything totally
confusing :-).

(I was a customer from 1977-1979, supported TOPS-20 and VMS in the field
until 1981, and was in Marlboro in the layered products group until 1985).