rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Lightroom catalogs your images and saves all your changes, etc in the database. A virtual copy is just that, the db adds a new image with a unique file name so you can, like i do, work on something without affecting your original file. A Duplicate is a copy of the original file with a new entry in the database. Same thing, just takes up more space.
Not quite. A virtual copy uses the same original file. But in LR, the adjustments to the original are saved. As a virtual copy, you are keeping another set of adjustments to the original. But it is not another file.