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January 22, 2020
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How to re-edit without losing original edits

  • January 22, 2020
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I'm fairly new to Lightroom, coming from PS and Adobe Camera Raw, so still struggling with a few things.  What I want to do seems like it should be straightforward but I've not been able to figure out an easy way to accomplish it.

 

Basically, I have a RAW image that I've processed in LR.  I want to keep that set of edits, but also start fresh to try a different approach.  I don't want to export it, as that would then prevent me from making incremental changes to the original RAW file, and I don't want to go back in history or reset (without some way to have the old edits available as a second image) as that would lose my previous efforts.

 

Hopefully what I'm trying to do is clear.  Basically I want to have image+editsA and image+editsB.  Thanks for any help.

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Correct answer john beardsworth

Create a "virtual copy".

So you would have one real file in your folder system, but LR would have two or more versions of it.

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john beardsworth
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john beardsworthCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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January 22, 2020

Create a "virtual copy".

So you would have one real file in your folder system, but LR would have two or more versions of it.

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January 22, 2020

Got it - lurking in the "Photo" menu.  That should work, thanks!

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