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January 27, 2020
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P: View editing history

  • January 27, 2020
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Is it possible to see editing history in Lightroom mobile?  I made changes to a photo many months ago and do not recall what I did.  I want to do similar changes to the rest of my photos from that shoot and I usually edit in Lightroom Classic.  I know I can copy and paste the settings but I would like to know specifically what changes I made.

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brianrolfephoto
Participating Frequently
July 13, 2024

I need this too, it drives me nuts when I've worked on a shot on the ipad but have no way of checking what preset I've used when back in LR Classic!

Known Participant
June 2, 2024
What do you need a history of your edits for?  What is that going to provide over just looking at the sliders and masks to see what's been done?

 

For precisely the problem I'm dealing with now.  I made edits on LR Mobile on my iPad because that's what I had available at the time and needed to export the picture for a couple of purposes.

 

A few weeks later, I wanted to export a full resolution file for printing and use the RAW file but, since the edits don't carry, I can't copy them.  

 

I'm left interpreting which won't get me where I want to be.

 

 

kyle-i
Participating Frequently
April 20, 2024

Still baffles me that they left the history feature out of mobile. It's one of the main reasons I never do any serious editing in Mobile. It's still not as "professional" as Classic. 

kyle-i
Participating Frequently
April 20, 2024

Two main reasons for me why the History pane is important:

  1. For photographers who use lots of presets to expedite their editing process, it's much easier to see which presets you applied through history than trying to guess based on all the settings. Many presets change multiple settings at the same time. I'm having this exact problem where I know I used a film emulation preset on a batch of photos, and I want to apply it to more photos, but I can't remember which one I used. It's impossible to tell based on the settings since I've added a number of edits on top of the preset. 
  2. When you're looking through hundreds of photos, trying to make sure you added that one tweak on all of them, it's just easier to see in the History pane than trying to decipher it in the settings. 
Nadeem28230335k4xr
Known Participant
January 19, 2024

I have a genuine question, as I'm new to photo editing.

 

What do you need a history of your edits for?  What is that going to provide over just looking at the sliders and masks to see what's been done?

Participating Frequently
January 19, 2024

I also immediately missed this after trying the Lightroom mobile app for the first time (as a long time Lightroom Classic user).

Participant
February 9, 2023

+1

 

Edit history is one of the fundamental features of LR that I've relied on since 2007. LR CC/Mobile makes editing multiple photos more difficult by not having it, since you lose whatever edits you just did if you close the edit panel to jump to another photo for comparison. 

Participant
November 3, 2022

Cannot belive it has been nearly two years since this post and nothing has been done quite yet... we NEED a way to revisit every edit, I understand there are versions but versions for me does not save often enough and I frequently lose out on the in betweens of edits. Not asking for more saves more often, im asking to just remember my edits PLEASE!

just eirik
Known Participant
May 22, 2022

+1 for this feature!

Participating Frequently
June 2, 2022

+ another for this feature! 

nikunj.m
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 28, 2020

Hi there,

 

We do not have a specific History panel in Lightroom mobile like in Lightroom Classic. This would surely be a great feature request. You can submit this as an idea here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_lightroom_mobile  Outdated info

This forum is monitored by our product team. They can check the feasibility of the request and may include it in a future update.

 

Regards,

Nikunj

Participant
November 3, 2022

I saw several other posts talking about this topic but not in the idea topic. Not quite sure why it hasn't been done yet but can we please add a feature to view all edits made to a certain file. I truley dont think that is a tall task, and I understand there are versions history but that doesnt save as often and I often lose the in between edits because of this. I am not asking for more edits, but just a edit history of every little thing done like Classic does it.