Re: Photoshop on eBay
I'm not saying Gimp=Photoshop and recent versions has seen CS improve faster than Gimp development. If you want to use Photoshop or LR then cool, both are excellent, I love using them. break out the plastic and away you go. But Gimp has layers and, just like photoshop, if you edit a layer it doesn't affect the one underneath.
Non destructive editing refers to the changes made to the image while editing. A bit like adjustment layers and layer masks. In any layered program you can achieve the same thing. If you copy the first image layer to a second one and make changes to it you can delete the second layer and the first is unaffected. No image destruction unless you do it yourself, the program doesn't do it. Maybe this doesn't suit your workflow or style of editing and it's not the same (it doesn't suit mine) as Photoshop but it's just how the program works. I've used Gimp for 10 years but prefer photoshop (also 10 years) myself but still think Gimp is the second best to the Adobe offerings. It's not fair to bash an excellent free program because you're not sure how to use it.
If you make a non destructive adjustment in CS or LR then save it over the original file then the original is again overwritten. So I still dont understand how Gimp "detracts from the quality of images"?
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