When using "export" Preview overwrites original file.

After opening and making changes to an image file, Preview, using “save” or “export”  ( with file renamed when using Export) is overwriting the original file. How do I prevent this?
Or, another and probably better way to ask the question.  What is the equivalent of “ Save as” in the Mavericks version of Preview?
Thank you for the help.
P.S.  There must be a "Save As" lobby somewhere in the community! :-)

Preview will Autosave as you work. If you want to Revert the changes, use the Revert To command in the File menu.
You can Duplicate the current version and save it, then Revert the original if you fail to start with a Duplicate.
Since it is Autosaving, Save As… won't change the results you see.
There might be a way to disable autosave, but I don't know what it is.

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