Lightroom - More than one kind of history
Aug. 1st, 2010 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petardierLightroom has, like many applications, an Undo feature. You can use it to get rid of actions you've just applied to your photo. Lightroom also has a history of edit changes for each photo you've altered. These are both useful features, but unless you know how they work and work with them, you'll be in for some frustration.
Since there's a history on each photo, you might innocently assume, as I did that the Undo feature would Undo the most recent change on that photo and that multiple Undo step would work backward through that photo's history. Maddeningly, this works sometimes, but not always. Why only sometimes? It depends the order in which you applied actions and to which photos.
The Undo feature removes your most recent change from your current edit session. That includes switching between photos. Say I have 2 photos with 5 changes each. I then add 6 changes to photo A, switch to photo , and add 4 changes to photo B. If I select Undo 6 times, I end up removing the 4 changes from B, and the two most recent changes from A.
If I had made my 11 changes all at once to A and then made my 9 changes to B, the undo would have removed 6 changes from B. If you want to make much use of Undo in Lightroom, it doesn't pay to hop back and forth between photos. It's much easier to completely finish the changes on one photo before moving to another.
It's also possible to make use of the history of the photo you're working on. Just click on the step you want to revert to. You'll see what the photo looked like at that point. If you make a change when a previous change is selected, the existing changes past that point disappear, and your new change is at the top of the history list.
Since there's a history on each photo, you might innocently assume, as I did that the Undo feature would Undo the most recent change on that photo and that multiple Undo step would work backward through that photo's history. Maddeningly, this works sometimes, but not always. Why only sometimes? It depends the order in which you applied actions and to which photos.
The Undo feature removes your most recent change from your current edit session. That includes switching between photos. Say I have 2 photos with 5 changes each. I then add 6 changes to photo A, switch to photo , and add 4 changes to photo B. If I select Undo 6 times, I end up removing the 4 changes from B, and the two most recent changes from A.
If I had made my 11 changes all at once to A and then made my 9 changes to B, the undo would have removed 6 changes from B. If you want to make much use of Undo in Lightroom, it doesn't pay to hop back and forth between photos. It's much easier to completely finish the changes on one photo before moving to another.
It's also possible to make use of the history of the photo you're working on. Just click on the step you want to revert to. You'll see what the photo looked like at that point. If you make a change when a previous change is selected, the existing changes past that point disappear, and your new change is at the top of the history list.
