p.1 #1 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
Question: is it possible in Lightroom to paste new settings on images without replacing/overwriting the existing settings?
To be more specific: I was doing spot removal on a large series of pictures (for a time lapse video), but some of them required individual adjustment, but then I found one more individual spot that needs to be removed globally. Now if I add the new spot removal point and synchronize the settings to all images, I will lose all the individual edits to the spot removal. Is there a way around this?
One workaround that I can think of would be to record a macro while putting the additional spot removal point in the right place and then perform it on all images, but I didn't find anything like that for Lightroom.
p.1 #2 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
Select the image that has ALL of the spots removed. Then use either 'Shift' or 'Ctrl' to select the images you want to receive the edits. Then press Sync. Select whichever edits you want Syncronized.
This will overwrite the 'spot removal' edits from all images selected and replace them with the 'spot removal' edits from your source image.
p.1 #3 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
The problem is that I have too many individual adjusted images to know which ones they were, and I can't think of an easy way to compare the settings. I need to find a better way to manage this...
I think I'll just bite the bullet and overwrite all settings with the spots which I know can be applied globally and then redo the adjustments in a more systematic way. A shame that I have to lose time this way, because there is no good reason why it shouldn't be possible to paste settings incrementally/additively (at least not with spot removal).
p.1 #4 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
what if you export them with all other adjustments made and then import those and then apply the global adjustment. Kinda hinky but it would work I think.
p.1 #6 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
DigMeTX wrote:
what if you export them with all other adjustments made and then import those and then apply the global adjustment. Kinda hinky but it would work I think.
brad cook
That would increase the number of actual files in the library and thereafter he'd be working on those new files instead of the original raw files. Two sets of edits, and anything subsequently done to the original files would not reflect in those exported files. Messy, but then he's in a messy situation.
OP, I think your only half-way decent option is to go through each of the relevant images in the Develop module, check the edit history and label each one that has any edits since the last sync. That will let you select just those images or just the others so that you can process each group separately. You'd have to weigh up whether or not a new sync operation is more or less work than fixing each of these files individually, but at least you would know which files are safe to sync again without losing unique edits.
p.1 #8 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
Thanks for the suggestions, both of you. I didn't know about auto sync yet, but when I just tried it, it did replace previous spot removal points (just like a manual sync/paste settings), so it doesn't help for my case.
p.1 #9 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
From a workflow perspective, one needs to FIRST find those elements residing in each frame that require the same adjustments (including spots) and do an auto sync. Once complete then go back and do individual tweaks. The reverse, as you've found out, doesn't work. Ran into this very early on learning how to work with lightroom, it pi...d me off too. Oh well, live and learn
p.1 #10 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
Well, yeah, learn the limitations and live with them. In that sense, Lightroom is a rather disappointing piece of software IMO, perhaps deliberately kept "dumb" to keep Photoshop a necessity for people who want to do some local editing a bit above the simplicity of the tools provided.
p.1 #11 · Lightroom paste settings on top of each other
This is what I would do. First select all of the images that you want to apply the global change to and then create a collection with these images. When you make the collection, make sure the create virtual copies box is checked. Now you have virtual copies of all of your original images plus your edits in an easy to work with collection. Clone a copy of one virtual image in the collection. Then simply make the required global change to this image and sync it with all of the remaining images. When you sync to the cloned image only use the one check box that is associated with your edit type as a safety measure and to insure that the sync will use the correct edit type(s). This will give you one set of globally corrected images with your original images intact. These are virtual copies so they will not take up any additional resources on your system. If you are working with virtual copies, there is no risk to your original edits. Good luck.
