How do I go back to the pictures original settings?

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April 3, 2010
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I made a mistake in processing and want to go back to the pictures original settings and start over. I searched help, but didn't find anything. How do I get the original raw image back?

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Correct answer John Blaustein

Laura,

Just click on any history state below the top one, and your image will revert to where it was before. For example, let's say you first cropped your image, then adjusted exposure, then adjusted saturation, then adjusted clarity. Your history list would look like:

Clarity adj

Saturation adj

Exposure adj

Crop

Import

Click Import and your image will revert to the original state -- no edits. Click Exposure adj and the image will be cropped with exposure change, but no change to saturation or clarity. You can experiment and click any state and see where you are. However, if you click a state and then do an edit, all previous states above will be lost. In other words, if you click Exposure (in my example) and then make a Fill adjustment, the Saturation and Clarity adjustments will be lost. Of course you can do those again if you like.

John

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Anonymous

Oops... posted a comment in the wrong thread. Sorry!

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Anonymous

Thanks for the links! I'll check them out.

Ha!!! I didn't want you (or anyone else) to misunderstand the "newbie" comment. Although, I'm sure that it was pretty obvious that it was me! LOL.

Thanks again!

ssprengel

Inspiring

The Reset button at the bottom of Develop resets the settings of a photo to the Lightroom import defaults.

Also, you can use the History section in the lefthand panel in Develop to step back until prior to the error. If the History section is not visible at the left of Develop then right-click and enable that section.

If you need to reset many photos back, then go to Library, and select the ones you want to reset, and then click the Reset All button at the end of the Quick Develop section at the right.

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Anonymous

I saw the History pallet, but I wasn't sure what to do with it. How do I take away part of the history?

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Hello,

i know this is an old thread but am wondering if you can help with a similar issue. I am also looking to reset some of my photos back to the original RAW file and start over with no adjustments. My issue is when I go all the way back to the import stage in the history to reset it, it is still different from the original file. I am pretty sure I did not apply any filters upon import so I'm not sure how this happened and I am not able to use the original. I think I could probably delete and import the photos again but I spent a lot of time manually geotagging and adding other metadata that I don't want to lose. i changed the calibration from adobe to camera calibration which seemed to help, but it's still not the same as the original. Please let me know If you know how I can get back to the original photo without losing the metadata. Any help would be appreciated!

I am not sure what you are expecting to see "the same as the original."

Setting Profile to Adobe Standard and hitting [Reset] will restore the image to the appearance that is Lightroom's (Adobe's) interpretation of the raw image data, without any Develop presets applied at time of import. (This is different to the History state > Import Date and Time!)

I tested this and Imported an image with a 'very weird' tone curve preset applied during import, then did the Profile & Reset, the photo was restored to my idea of 'Original'.

The Left image is "As imported from history". The Right image is (a VC) with Profile & Reset applied.