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January 18, 2023
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How to view a list of all edit steps that have been made to an image

  • January 18, 2023
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After having made many different tweaks that are currently applied to an image I often find I have no clear memory of exactly which changes, made in what order - lead to the "final" result.   Given that I may have applied / un-done many differnt adjustments and presets  before finally arriving at the current result, this makes it hard to apply them again if I decide a full reset to original is needed or if I'm working with a somewhat similar image later in my working set.

Lightroom obviously knows what the edit steps are in what order applied to the current image since it shows a text description of each of them every time I hit / re-hit "Undo".   But the only way I know to see each currently applied change is to "Edit | Undo" them one-at-a-time while manually writiing them down and then go back and "Redo" them again one-at-a-time.   If' I'm working thru half a thousand of images from a week-long shoot, that's not a very time-efficient way to do this.   The entire set of specific changes is rarely needed long enough to justify creating a full preset with a meaningful name.  I'd never keep that many presets straight, anyway.

 

I'm hoping LR CC / LR6 does have some way toi show a list of  all currently applied edit steps of an image - in the order of which they were applied - using the same text description of each step as is shown after an Undo / Redo.  Or that someone has some kind of workaround to provide this same list information.

But I can find no way in LR6 (or CC) to view such a list of those steps in chronological order.  Is there any way to achieve this?

 

Thanks!

-Bob

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Jim Wilde
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January 18, 2023

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BRiddle52Author
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January 18, 2023

Thank you!   That's very helpful and gets me nearly everything I need except how to copy/paste or print those resulting history items to my set of project notes other than doing a screen capture of that panel.  Hopefully someone has written a plug-in to do that.

(When I looked for that History after seeing your reply I found that my default set of panels had shoved the History off the bottom of the visible panel set and I had not used the LR UI enough to know what I was missing.   Thanks again!)

 

-Bob

dj_paige
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January 19, 2023
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Thank you!   That's very helpful and gets me nearly everything I need except how to copy/paste or print those resulting history items to my set of project notes other than doing a screen capture of that panel.  Hopefully someone has written a plug-in to do that.

(When I looked for that History after seeing your reply I found that my default set of panels had shoved the History off the bottom of the visible panel set and I had not used the LR UI enough to know what I was missing.   Thanks again!)

 

-Bob


By @BRiddle52

 

How to get a list of your changes other than a screen capture? Well, you won't like the answer, but the answer is to do a screen capture. Or if you are really good at SQL you can probably write code to extract this list from the catalog file (which is really just a database).

 

But why bother? As you can see from the list I show, sometimes edits are not completely informative, it says "Update Dehaze Adjustment" within a mask, but it doesn't say what the value of dehaze was before or after the change was made. And if you apply presets (as I do), then even your starting point isn't clearly specified in the History. Do you want to save the history for learning purposes, or for some other reason? If it is for learning purposes, why don't you just use the History panel instead of screen captures of the history panel?

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 18, 2023

"LR CC / LR6..."

Lightroom (Cloud version 6)?

Lightroom (Perpetual v6)?

This is the Lightroom-Classic forum. The answer from @dj_paige is for Lightroom-Classic or Lightroom (Perpetual v6).

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
dj_paige
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January 18, 2023

History panel on the left of the Develop Module