How to copy photo for pp work in NV ?????

[yogi]

Q. No.1
How do I make a copy of a photo in NV to play around with it with out losing the original???.

Q. No.2
How then do I post it into a message like this???


P.S. You are talking to someone who is computer illiterate( I hope this is not to silly a question for this forum)

[daniel_r]

Yogi,

#1: The safest way I've found is to make a duplicate of the image file itself on your computer (Mac -> select the file icon where ever its located on you hard disk, from the File menu under Finder select File->Duplicate. Windows has similar functionality...)

#2 this thread should answer your questions

[yogi]

Thankyou daniel_r,
a good link for the direction I need

Ta muchly..

[daniel_r]

No probs,

It's what the absolute beginners section is all about

[pippin88]

 AFAIK, all RAW programs store changes, rather than altering the original image. IE there is a bit in the file saying "Altered Exposure = +1" sort of thing, but the real image data is unchanged.

I know Rawshooter Essentials (do a search, it's a free program), stores it's changes in a folder in the folder of an image. Your original images are unaltered from what I can see.

[gstark]

Yogi,

You can always select File/Save As, and then give the file a different name ... such as adding a suffix (a, b, etc ) to the original filename part or the file name.

[yogi]

Thanks for the input,Nick but you are way to technically advanced for me.

Gary, I'm learning slowly:Thankyou .