DAM - support for virtual copies
AnsweredIn the upcoming DAM feature please support a way to make virtual copies of a photo and make independent edits
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Aperture does this fairly well. You can do "New Version" which copies the change file or you can do "New Version from Master" which allows you to start fresh.
That said, it gets messier than this: At some point you need a bitmap of the file. And you want to track these files too.Consider:
Master
Version1 Cropped and dust removal
Version 2 Added Watermark.
Exported as Mastername-v2-watermark.jpg
Exported at 768x1024 for facebook as mastername-v1-facebook.jpg
Exported at 400x600 for newsletter as mastername-v1-news.jpgVersion 3 from master, converted to black and white,
Exported to Nix Silver for B&W processing
Import Nix version back
Version 4, based on version 3 -- Use luminar to add dramatic skyExported from version 4 and mailed to local newspaper b&w photo contest.
This isn't unrealistic. I have sets of images that have 18 different resolutions.
Now from the image, find the master.
Imagine you are a wedding photographer. The people kept the proof prints with your water mark, and come back two years later with the print, and say, "We need an 8x10 of this for Aunt Martha. Now you have to find the master image.
Or someone has used the version you posted to facebook illegally, and you want to prove ownership by showing that you have the master image.Or you are converting your website to make it more mobile friendly, so you need a lower res version of every image on your website.
Versioning has to track not only versions (a different set of modifications) but also files (a physically different file possibly at a different resolution, possibly composited from multiple images, maybe in a different file format.
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