Moving vs Saving files

[bugmadmark]

A quick question to which Ive never found the answer to.
I shoot in both RAW and Jpeg. At some point I will learn to handle RAW, but for time being I work with Jpeg. I was told that if you save Jpegs several times they lose quality. All my files re currently stored on the hard drive and backed up to another harddrive. If you move a jpeg file from one drive to another (i.e. the file isnt opened, edited and saved) does the quality still change. In other words if you move a file to a different drive it must obviously save that file again. I do have my files backed up on other drives, but the origiinals remain on the PC - but im filling this up fast and not sure if moving them will result in poorer Jpeg quality in copied files?

Also - having seen the demo of Photoshop Elements 7 (plus Premier Elements 7) tempted to scrap full version of PS CS - and I think this can manage the files on my pc too? Although - Lightroom is appealing albeit expensive. I see a few peopel use it here - if I had Lightroom, would Elements become redundant if they do same thing??? Both are Adobe and both apparently interface with each other - im not sure

Cheers
Mark

[Pete Eeles]

If you move a jpeg file from one drive to another (i.e. the file isnt opened, edited and saved) does the quality still change.

No.

If I had Lightroom, would Elements become redundant if they do same thing.

I think you need to list what it is (in detail) that you want to do. I have both Lightroom, Elements and CS2 (not 3!) and I only ever use Lightroom. But my needs are simple - I want to process RAW and JPEG and perform relatively-small changes. I'm not into image manipulation on a grand scale!

Cheers,

- Pete

[bugmadmark]

Thanks for this Pete.
Ive just downloaded the Lightroom and Elements trial software to take a look. I really wanted to be able to edit and catalogue my images and get into RAW work - but not sure I like the look of Canons DPP. Thanks as ever,
mark