<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thank you all for the explanation/education. :-)</span><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">—Norm in Texas</span><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 20, 2025, at 21:24, George Koulomzin <George@Koulomzin.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div><p>Much of this has to do with trying to make the original image
(think negative) immutable. The XMP is a file associated
(unfortunately by naming convention only) with the original image
which is supposed to hold all the modifications made in the
process of creating a final image (think print). The concept is
that it will record all the actions you did to your original with
your editor, so that you can replay these actions again and get
the same result. The way I would use the word "fork" in this
context is to permit multiple such action sequences, each of which
achieves a different result, i.e. a different interpretation.
This would be especially neat if you could use the first 5 steps
of the first interpretation, and then tack on a different final 3
steps. Think of the last 3 "forking off" from original plan after
step 5.</p><p>Hope this helps...</p><p><br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">I love reading through these
questions, answers, and comments, but I often realize how much
of a rookie photographer/editor/software guru I am.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">In spite of my age, I love
learning new things, but some of these discussions are
seemingly very complex to me.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">XMP</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Forks</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Imgur</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sidecars</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Interpretations</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Etc.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Have a great week all.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">As I said in the subject,
rhetorical.</span></div>
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