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This is going to be somewhat provocative and more about terms
and definitions, so if you feel it should be closed or moved to
meta, vote so.  To the question - there is a lot of talk about
non-destructive edits that can be done during post-processing,
but I'm a bit puzzled by the term non-destructive.  Edits to RAW
file are said to be lossless/non-destructive, because original
data is kept. But how can I call an edit non-destructive if data
is lost in the result? Same can be said about JPEG - if I keep
the original data, my edits are non-destructive because I can
always go back to original (JPEG is a lossy format, but that's
different story, we can as well talk about TIFF).  So there is a
difference between lossless/non-destructive edit and lossless
format, ie changing RAW to JPEG itself is destructive edit,
because we los