The file will be huge, but terabytes are cheap in today's world.

Also, there's this:

https://digital-photography-school.com/non-destructive-editing-photoshop/

This will be my last post. I no longer need UHH for my business since I'm retired, and UHH really isn't fun anymore like it was a decade ago, so I'm retiring from UHH as well. Admin has deleted my account, so as soon as I log out, I will be forever retired. Good luck to everyone. Best wishes for health, happiness, peace, and prosperity.

I don't remember much about CS6 since I always update when updates are available. However, one can save a history of what was done to the file. It's called a History Log.

Below is a good link to some of the wonderful ways one can do non-destructive editing in Photoshop. Add in Adjustment Layers and Actions, and Photoshop can do anything and everything. I used to do my work in Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements, Paintshop Pro, Photo-Paint, PageMaker, InDesign, Illustrator, CorelDraw, and many other programs. When I was at the Adobe Convention in Las Vegas, I learned that everything I was doing in all those other programs could be done in Photoshop. However, it took some work, and some of the other programs that were created to do specific tasks (PageMaker, InDesign, Illustrator, CorelDraw) do it easier than can be done in Photoshop. But if one does the same things time after time, one can simply create templates, adjustment layers, actions, scripts, etc., and not have to have so many programs on one's computer. Since I retired at the start of the pandemic and am not looking for new clients, I don't have to have the current updates of all those other programs in case someone walks in and wants me to help them with something. I'm all alone now. Knowing how to do everything in one program, Photoshop, saves me more than a thousand dollars each year for updates to all those programs I used to have.

https://jkost.com/blog/2021/02/working-with-undo-the-history-panel-history-and-art-history-brushes-in-photoshop.html

So have I. We should get together sometime and compare notes!


If people are "mislead," they just might learn something. I got mislead all the time at conventions. Learned a lot!

If one understands how to use the History Panel to its fullest extent, one can very easily accomplish non-destructive editing in Photoshop. I learned at an Adobe convention in Las Vegas 8 years ago. I have been doing it for 8 years now. That convention also convinced me to shoot RAW always (for my purposes) and to convert my CR* files to DNG. Best photography convention I ever went to.

Of course, people my age who have been taking photographs for 55 years and using computers for 43 years and digital photo editing software programs for 38 years also understand that virtually since day one, we've been able to do non-destructive editing simply by using the File Save As command or making a copy before editing. Software for 40+ years also has been asking us "Save Changes?" whenever we quit a program. Now combine all that knowledge with Photoshop's History Panel, and the possibilities are endless.

I understand quite well. The history panel allows for any edit to be non-destructive with the click of a mouse.

When one learns how to use the History panel, nothing in Photoshop is destructive.

Yep. I've been on UHH since October 29, 2011, but I rarely visit anymore and even more rarely do I post. Just too many ugly people, and not just here, either. They are everywhere on the Internet, hiding behind a computer screen and keyboard.

My daily walkaround lens is a Tamron 16-300. When I have to go out to the East San Diego County boondocks looking for wildlife, I'll switch to a Tamron 150-600.

It depends on what one's goal is. If it's to make a sharp picture, no, post processing probably won't do it. If it's to create Photographic Art, never say never as my wise old grandmother would say. I learned never to trash a picture because the options in post processing are extraordinary. One can make something out of nothing at all.

It wasn't a Strad. It was a Mozzani, a rare violin handcrafted in 1915. Worth $40,000 in 2000.

I'm quite familiar with that instance. That was Meesun Hong in January 2000. Her violin was a $40,000 (at the time) Mozzani violin, a rare violin handcrafted in 1915.

Now Meesun Hong Coleman, she has a long and prestigious history: Princeton B.A., Juilliard M.A. Fulbright scholar.
Professor of violin and chamber music at Anton Bruckner University in Linz. Concertmaster of the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Haydn Philharmonie. That's just off the top of my head. There is much much more.

I know a lot of people who have left their instruments in taxis, on buses, and on commuter trains. Not all of them got them back.

I just replaced my Canon 760D (T6s). I really didn't know what I wanted, only that I have thousands of dollars invested in lenses for the 760D. Nonetheless, if I chose something else, I could sell them. I wound up renting a Canon EOS R5, the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, and the Canon EOS 90D. All were impressive, so I factored in getting new lenses and how much that the old and new technology would affect my old body going forward. That left me with the 90D, which is what I bought.

There are a lot of camera stores, both brick & mortar and online, that are closing up shop. Lots of camera equipment for sale at pennies on the dollars. I got my 90D for $549.

Wow. I've been playing the violin, and playing in orchestras, since 1964. I have never seen or heard of a violinist (or violist) leaving the instrument on top of a car. The first thing we do is get that fragile instrument in the car. Everything else is secondary.

Good point! I had not thought of that!

When Twitler was inaugurated as president and his border wall became all the rage, I went to Border Road in San Diego to take pictures of the border wall that already existed. I started at the Pacific Ocean and drove about 15 miles inland. At that point when I stopped, 13 Border Patrol vehicles descended upon me. They asked me what I was doing and I told them I was taking pictures of the border wall. They said I couldn't do that because it was illegal. Okay, whatever. They last thing I wanted to do was get arrested and then have to spend a lot of money in court proving that they were wrong. They asked to see the pictures I had taken and made me erase every one of them. Then they all left. I turned around and drove back to the Pacific Ocean, stopping to retake all the pictures that had been erased.