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Adam22075124ijju
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February 28, 2022
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Why can you not just open a file, change it and overwrite to the same file

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Why can you not just open a file, change it and overwrite to the same file? This is basic stuff, the way it is now you to have create a new file, go back, delete the one you opened, and rename the new file, whose bright idea was this?

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
February 28, 2022

This violates the principle on which Lightroom (and other raw editors) were founded: Non-destructive workflow. 

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    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    February 28, 2022

    What used to be "basic stuff"  is now 'old hat'- Times change.

    The new mantra for Lightroom Apps is that your original file is NEVER changed.

    You can edit, and re-edit, this 'original' file at any time in Lightroom, in many ways, and you only ever need to "create a new file" when you need one for another special purpose. (eg. Send to a print house.)

    In Lightroom you would either 'Export' a derivative file to the hard-drive, or create a 'Version' of the original (as edited) that will also be seen in the Lightroom Catalog (and can also be Exported).

     

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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    Adam22075124ijjuAuthor
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    February 28, 2022

    "What used to be "basic stuff"  is now 'old hat'- Times change." Sorry but that has got to be the most garbage answer I have ever heard, the "new mantra" makes no sense whatsoever, as a user I want to be able to open my image and save it to whatever file name I like, INCLUDING the original file name, with it as it is it unnecessarily causes additional time, I have just had to go through 100 files, save them and then go back and rename 100 files, how does that make any sense ? 

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    February 28, 2022
    @Adam22075124ijju wrote:

    "What used to be "basic stuff"  is now 'old hat'- Times change." Sorry but that has got to be the most garbage answer I have ever heard, the "new mantra" makes no sense whatsoever, as a user I want to be able to open my image and save it to whatever file name I like, INCLUDING the original file name, with it as it is it unnecessarily causes additional time, I have just had to go through 100 files, save them and then go back and rename 100 files, how does that make any sense ? 


    Lightroom is a non-destructive editor, so it simply does not work this way. Of course you can say "I want it to work differently", but that is like buying a screwdriver and then complain that you cannot use it as a hammer. If you want to drive in a nail, get a hammer, not a screwdriver. In this analogy, Photoshop would be a hammer, Lightroom would be a screwdriver.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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