Non-destructive editing allows you to change your mind later, and this video shows you how you can crop an image without permanently discarding the excess information.

Learn Julieanne’s top 5 favorite features in Photoshop 13.1 including refinements to the Crop Tool, nondestructive editing with Blur Gallery and Liquify, increased efficiency with Conditional Actions, practical default Type Styles and support for Retina displays on Macintosh.

In this movie author Julieanne Kost explains how to convert your layers into Smart Objects and resize your layers in a non-destructive way.

Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.

Discover how to create the highest quality image possible by harnessing the power within the Develop module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Master the tools needed to enhance, refine, and add creative effects to your images using both global and local nondestructive image adjustments, including white balance, tone curves, vibrance, clarity, sharpening, and color enhancements. Also learn how to create presets to quickly apply these effects to multiple images and prepare your images for final delivery with speed and efficiency.

Today we've got a really nice and simple tutorial demonstrating how to quickly add a beautiful, non destructive vignette effect to any image using Photoshop layers and blending modes.

Apply adjustment layers to manipulate the color, tone, contrast, and other aspects of images. Apply adjustments non-destructively, monitor levels in the panel's histogram, and paint away adjustments with the built-in layer mask.

Sizing and scaling images, unlike vector graphics, can result in a loss of image quality. Make your transformations non-destructive in Photoshop by converting layers to Smart Objects prior to making changes.

Learn how to make a nondestructive selection in Photoshop CS3 from the layer transparency created by the Background Eraser Tool. It sounds complex, but it's easy and the results look great!

Take a tour of the updated Develop module in Lightroom 2.0. Julieanne Kost shows how to make nondestructive localized corrections using the new Adjustment Brush and Graduated filter tools.