| Yes, but if the point is to send these pictures somewhere else for printing, wouldn't that require an export? Otherwise, you'd be sending them the original unedited picture, at least as I understand Lightroom to work.
True, export means an extra JPEG compression step, but that's life in the world of JPEG - if you edit a file and want to preserve the results in JPEG format, you *have* to save it at some point. Don't worry; it's not like this ruins everything; we're taking about a very miniscule effect. Only if you took that copy and then exported another copy of that, then took that copy and exported another copy of that, and so forth - after a dozen or more generations, you might notice a slight loss in quality. |