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b&wnight
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June 14, 2010
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Clear History items individually

  • June 14, 2010
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After making a few adjustments I quit Lightroom 2. Restarting I cannot undo some of these History items. I do not want to Clear all. How can I get rid of the last few History items without getting rid of then all?

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    Anonymous
    September 8, 2010

    It´s a shame LR2 doesn´t have this feature it makes logical sence for it to exist and would help alot in saving time.

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      Anonymous
      September 8, 2010

      It doesn't really matter what order the history is in.  It isn't like the Lr engine is going to follow that order. It will do it's own thing and even revisit a control more than once if it has to. As said else-thread, it's about the values on the parametric controls, not the order.

      john beardsworth
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      john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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      June 15, 2010

      Remember history steps are simply a log of what you have done. Think of them as a glorified Undo list - not a cumulative set of actions as Photoshop. What matters is the slider values.

      F. McLion
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      F. McLionCommunity Expert
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      June 15, 2010

      I do know all that ... how its working and how to revert a single step ... and and and ...

      Nevertheless, IMHO this would be a nice feature.

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        David Ayars
        David Ayars
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        June 15, 2010

        No offense, but hey, everybody  has his opinion and I completely disagree with you.

        That's why there is a IHMO

        Nevertheless, IMHO this would be a nice feature.

        I'm not the OP so I can not mark this thread as closed. However, for me there is no further discussion needed in this thread.


        F. McLion wrote:

        No offense, but hey, everybody  has his opinion and I completely disagree with you.

        That's why there is a IHMO

        Nevertheless, IMHO this would be a nice feature.

        I'm not the OP so I can not mark this thread as closed. However, for me there is no further discussion needed in this thread.

        HaHa! In IMHO there's still room for discussion! Actually, I think I know why you assumed OP wanted what you want (being able to remove just one edit from the middle of the edit history while leaving all other edits in place)... I thought he was asking for the same thing, at first... it's the subject of the thread ("Clear History items individually") which is really a different feature than asked for in the original post.  There are photo editing software apps that do exactly what you're asking for:  Paint Shop Pro has had that feature for years and several generations.  And it is quite useful and can save a lot of work.

        But you're more likely to find it in editing apps that perform destructive edits.  It may (or may not, I dunno) be quite a difficult thing to program in software such as LR which edits nondestructively.  And as pointed out above, there are likely higher priorities, because as John Beardy said, all you have to in LR is readjust the slider to remove the one edit you want taken out.

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        Butch_M
        Inspiring
        June 14, 2010

        Yes ... individual deletion of select history states would be desirable ... however the OP asked ...

        b&wnight wrote:

        How can I get rid of the last few History items without getting rid of then all?

        F. McLion
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        F. McLionCommunity Expert
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        June 14, 2010

        Ooops .. must have kinda projected my wishes into this ... or simply was not reading well.

        Sorry

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        Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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        Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
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        June 14, 2010

        Click on the last one you were happy with, to go back to that point, and anything you do after that will overwrite the following steps.

        Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
        F. McLion
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        F. McLionCommunity Expert
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        June 14, 2010

        No, unfortunately not.

        @Victoria: It's about deleting one dev step item from the list and keep the older as well as the newer.

        I'd love to have that too!

        Franz

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        Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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        Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
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        June 14, 2010

        F. McLion wrote:

        @Victoria: It's about deleting one dev step item from the list and keep the older as well as the newer.

        Franz, can you explain how that would help your workflow?

        Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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