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April 11, 2011
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P: Lightroom: consolidate/flatten/merge history steps

  • April 11, 2011
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Give us the option to consolidate/merge history steps.

All the little adjustments with the crop tool (it's often impossible to reach the final crop in a single operation) could be flattened to a single step, all the little stacked basic adjustment tweaks (+5, -7, +3, yada, yada), all the individual brush strokes, etc. could be flattened to a single adjustment.

This would make the history considerably cleaner and simpler - which makes much better use of the limited screen space (scrolling back down through presets and history is a pain).

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    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    April 12, 2011
    John - It sounds like your objection is on philosophical grounds.

    But practically, for many of us, there is no value to a sequence of intermediate crop adjustments whose net affect is one crop. Unless of course you may want to revisit those intermediate crops. But consolidation would only be done, on demand, once the settings are satisfactory.
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    April 12, 2011
    I think the suggestion is for an option - those who want the gory details wouldn't have to consolidate. Also, I can imagine 2 things:
    1. list is viewed in consolidated mode, but no changes are made.
    2. Consolidation changes are made permanent - and in this case, I'd like to be able to select steps to consolidate via the context menu, (as well as a global do-all)
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    April 12, 2011
    I think the suggestion is for an option - those who want the gory details wouldn't have to consolidate. Also, I can imagine 2 things:
    1. list is viewed in consolidated mode, but no changes are made.
    2. Consolidation changes are made permanent - and in this case, I'd like to be able to select steps to consolidate via the context menu, (as well as a global do-all)
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2011
    I would suggest that it's selective - it's just about usability and visibility of the changes in the panel (and many are uninteresting noise).

    There is complete history (with a lot of noise) and the major events we care about - it's more about summarising the changes (as you suggest, but having summarised them, I really don't care about the noise) - this could still work with snapshots as they are.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2011
    I would suggest that it's selective - it's just about usability and visibility of the changes in the panel (and many are uninteresting noise).

    There is complete history (with a lot of noise) and the major events we care about - it's more about summarising the changes (as you suggest, but having summarised them, I really don't care about the noise) - this could still work with snapshots as they are.
    Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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    Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
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    April 12, 2011
    I wouldn't want to see those extra steps removed completely, but on the other hand, I could imagine disclosure triangles collapsing them down into a combined adjustment when you've adjusted the same slider a number of times in a row.
    Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 12, 2011
    No, history should be just that - an exact history of what's been done.

    If you want to fake it, use snapshots or make the feature request for a summarised *display* - but leave the detail in the record.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2011
    Useful, but that could get lost in there (and I certainly wouldn't have found it there)
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2011
    Useful, but that could get lost in there (and I certainly wouldn't have found it there)
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    April 12, 2011
    Good idea. I'd really like to see edit-history list improved in other ways too.

    Its a really great feature already, that could be made really really really great...
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