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chrisd57089592
chrisd57089592
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July 8, 2018
Question

Exporting development settings for a single image?

  • July 8, 2018
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Hello,

I'm developing scripted processing pipelines that let me transform segments of drone video into large panoramas. After creating a panorama, I'd like to edit it in Lightroom and save some sort of representation of the transformations made to the original panorama that lead to the final result. Is there some way to save a history of those edits to disk that can be loaded in the future to reproduce the final result?

Thanks for your assistance!

Chris

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
July 8, 2018

In addition to develop presets and snapshots, there's another way to capture develop settings made to a photo: Do Metadata > Save Metadata To File. This saves all the settings to the XMP metadata, which is stored in the file itself for non-raws and in .xmp sidecars for raws.  You can extract these settings using the free utility ExifTool.

Bob Somrak
Bob Somrak
Legend
July 8, 2018

Develop presets do not save Local Brushing

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
    Tony_See
    Tony_See
    Inspiring
    July 8, 2018

    Chris

    You may already have considered this but would a Snapshot give you some answer here?

      chrisd57089592
      chrisd57089592Author
      Participant
      July 8, 2018

      It sure might Tony. I'll investigate. Thanks!

      dj_paige
      dj_paige
      Legend
      July 8, 2018

      You create a develop preset in Lightroom, which essentially saves the final settings of your edits (the actual sequence of changes is not saved).

        chrisd57089592
        chrisd57089592Author
        Participant
        July 8, 2018

        I've never tried to save a develop present before but this might be my best option. Thanks for the suggestion!

        Just Shoot Me
        Just Shoot Me
        Legend
        July 8, 2018

        Not that I know of in LR. In PS you could create an action that recorded all the editing steps. But that recording has to be done while you did the edits and or while you did the same edits on another image, not from the history AFAIK.

          chrisd57089592
          chrisd57089592Author
          Participant
          July 8, 2018

          I'm less familiar with PS but was planning to explore this path as a last resort. Appreciate the suggestion!

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