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Inspiring
April 10, 2014
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P: Ability to Create Snapshots

  • April 10, 2014
  • 132 replies
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For better editing and comparison I think a "create a virtual copy" option would be very nice.

132 replies

Inspiring
March 1, 2019


It would be great to have an option where I could duplicate a photo taken with the Lightroom camera. This would be very useful for someone who wanted to make multiple edits of the photo and try different styles w/o having to take multiple photos or saving before editing again (b&w, color, etc.)
mikebrodt
Inspiring
December 30, 2018
Yeah, it duplicates it, but returns as a PNG. Not a true copy or virtual copy.
Participating Frequently
December 30, 2018
That is a JPG and not the original RAW file. It’s also appears to be reduced resolution, depending on the original size of the file.
Tuckyhutsman
Participating Frequently
December 30, 2018
Is the duplicate made from the the High Res original or the Smart Preview on the mobile device? I suspect it's the Smart Preview, but I'll give this idea a try and report back.
Inspiring
December 30, 2018
Select the photo you want to duplicate. Choose "edit in" and choose either Fix or Liquify. At the very top is the bar that says "Save and Return to Adobe Lightroom". Tap it. You will now return to LR with a duplicate.
Inspiring
December 16, 2018
This is a must have! Can’t believe this isn’t implemented yet!
SamuelGillilan
Participating Frequently
December 4, 2018
Nice to see you here! Yeah, I recently moved my entire workflow to my phone as an experiment and seeing that between a few very powerful apps (and HDMI adaptor, I don’t really need my computer anymore for photo and video editing for the vast majority of my work, the phone makes it easier to share to clients and manage overall as well.
So I would like to see Adobe make a few adjustments knowing that some (a lot) of photographers will be doing the same in the coming two years. We can keep it professional level quality and work on phones, this is no longer taboo for the pro shooter.

Two other major features that would be beneficial is batch editing, and saving raw images to the cloud, deleting them on local device, while keeping a saved working file/preview of the image to download later.
The current LightRoom Mobile CC will delete the image permanently from all sources if one chooses to delete an image, rather than having an option to keep on the cloud in addition to “permanently delete”.

Without this feature, it renders the 1TB cloud storage I pay for nearly useless since I have to store the image on my local device to have it on the cloud simultaneously. Lame.
Known Participant
December 4, 2018
Yea I know right! Get it done Adobe!  Btw it's Zen P 😉
SamuelGillilan
Participating Frequently
December 3, 2018


Duplicating images for editing, this would be incredibly useful for making BNW and color versions of images or various other versions from RAW files. If I export an original raw to “photos” then back to Adobe Lightroom Mobile CC it does not make two but reverts to the original imported image, I need two or more versions many times.
Cameron Braun
Known Participant
November 15, 2018
Add another +1 for virtual copy support in LR CC. We need this desperately.