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Lawnmower.Man
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March 2, 2022
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Select photos that have been Enhanced within a Smart Collection.

  • March 2, 2022
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LRC seems to know that an image has been Enhanced when you try to Enhance a second time. Be nice to have the indicator exposed in the smart collections selection criteria.

Anyone have a way to do this?

 

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johnrellis
johnrellis
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March 6, 2022

To build on Johan's reply, you could use the Any Filter plugin to find all enhanced .dngs:

 

Due to inherent limitations of LR, this search is pretty slow compared to normal searching.

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Lawnmower.ManAuthor
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March 25, 2022

Thanks John, Very nice plugin you have there. Will pick one up. But I guess I still have a "personal" thing about a something thats suppose to be a nondistructive tool, mucking with my files names. 

 

Thank you again!

 

- Mark

Randy Hufford
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Randy HuffordCommunity Expert
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March 25, 2022

This is true. Why is it called non destructive and it changes file names?

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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March 2, 2022

I believe Lightroom adds 'Enhanced' to the name of the resulting file, doesn't it?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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    Lawnmower.ManAuthor
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    March 2, 2022

    Thank you Johan, thats a good point, but I had hopes that there was something more like a directly testable attribute. 

    I have descriptive names on many image files. 

     I was able to use LrC to rename an Enhanced files name to remove the Enhance text from the name. I was then able to re-Enhance the file again. So they are apparently using the tag in the file name as the attribute. Seems to me it belongs elsewhere. Perhaps something like _Enhanced as a LrC keyword (Thats what I was doing) or a flag in the Metadata, which is the better solution.

    — Mark David Farrall

     

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    March 3, 2022

    I don't think there is a special attribute. Enhanced DNG files are linear RGB files, not raw files. That is how Lightroom sees that it cannot raw-enhance it again, only use super resolution again. I don't think there is a 'flag' or anything like that.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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