Hi Paul, Patrick explained you the right method. However, if you simply desire to see how the image looks at different stages of development, you simply can play with the History Stack panel in darkroom mode. See chapter 3.3.3 of the user manual.
Maurizio 2017-09-14 4:54 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>: > * Paul Deverson <[email protected]> [09-13-17 22:09]: > > Which method do you experts recommend for saving the ‘finished’ file + > > xmp file so that after further changes, you can always revert to where > > you were before? Otherwise, if you do make further changes, you lose > > the original > > settings. > > duplicate the image. it amounts to an additional xmp file which contains > settings to generate another copy of your original. and you do not need > to duplicate the original. > > it *is* in the fine manual. > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri > Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net > Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode > ____________________________________________________________ > ________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscribe@ > lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
