Is develop persona fully non destructive ?

[gpzt]

Hello !

I have been told that "develop persona" cannot be considered a fully non destructive Raw treatment. If so, would it be wiser to start "develop persona" with a copy of the raw file ?

Best regards,

Gpzt.

 

[Dave Quail]

If you save your RAW edits, it will save them to a .afphoto file. The original RAW in unaffected.

[gpzt]

Thank you  Dave for this fast and unequivocal answer. That' s what I figured but I needed some reassurance. I purchased AP in January and believe me, the learning curve is quite steep with all those (excellent) tutorials in english for a newbie whose native tongue is french !

Best regards,

gpzt.

[Keith Reeder]

All Raw converters behave the same way, in that they do not affect the Raw file - in all cases a new image file is generated from the Raw original, containing any adjustments you've made at the "Develop" stage.

[dvoth]

The Affinity Photo roadmap mentions "Non destructive Develop Layer" so it looks like there will be more non-destructive options in the future.