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Develop Module - Before and After preview and History
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You
saw a similar image on this site yesterday but today I will
try to explain how the Before and After preview and History
features work. I have to say that I love this feature, but
it sure makes me wish that I still had that 30" Cinema
Display on my desk (I am traveling at the moment so that is
kind of impossible, but we can dream).
I
have been making second copies of images in Adobe Lightroom
just so I could see what the image looked like before I started
to work on it. And just like most of you I have a problem
remembering what I did to an image, more than four or five
adjustments and filters ago. Now I guess I don't really have
to worry about that any more.
The
top is the image at the beginning of a Develop session, and
the bottom is the current version of that image.
The History panel on the left
is also new and now gives a complete history of all changes
made by the Develop Module. The History of an images changes
starts the first time you make a change in the Adobe Lightroom
Beta 3 Develop Module and stays with that image from then
on. This solves the problem of having to constantly export
images out of a non-destructive editing environment to keep
a record of the changes you have made to an image. Fantastic.
Hey,
how many times have we all over processed an image in the
darkroom and wish we had left it alone. Now we can go back
in time, correct our past mistakes and even recapture an earlier
moment of accidental brilliance.
A close-up view of the controls
at the bottom of the screen.
1.
The normal single image current (After) view option.
2.
The Before view option.
3.
Side by side Before and After view option.
4.
Top and bottom Before and After view option.
5.
A crop tool.
6.
Red, Green, Blue values indicator for where the cursor is
pointing in an image.
7.
Apply the Before values to the After image.
8.
Apply the After values to the Before image.
9.
Split Screen (I haven't tested this yet).
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in these articles ...... George
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