[Adam Lincoln]

Ok, so just moved over to mac. Been using lightroom to edit photos, but once i have changed and edited it, i cant get it to change the master photo in my files. Any ideas? Probably really simple?

[dave]

I thought the whole point of lightroom is that you don't change your master photos.

[Adam Lincoln]

I thought the whole point of lightroom is that you don't change your master photos.

Hmmm, id like it to do so. I am sure there is a way.....

[Johnny Brown]

What Dave said. Are you shooting RAW? If so, edit then output to tiff. That is your new master photo. You can't edit RAW as such, changes are saved to the xmp sidecar file - LR does this automatically

[Adam Lincoln]

yeah i understand that, but, say i edit an image, and like you say doesnt edit master, if i want to for example upload to my flickr, when i  point to it in flickr uploader the image is the unedited version..... Sorry, new to macs!

[Johnny Brown]

You have to export to jpg first.