I duplicated one of my Collections because I needed two identical sets of the photos but in one set I need to crop the photos at a different aspect ratio then the other. I wasn't aware that changing the cropping in one collection, also changes it in the duplicate collection. How do I work around this?
A photo can be in many collections. Editing a photo will edit it in each collection, because it is one and the same photo. You need to create virtual copies of the photos if you want to make different edits in different collections.
Thank you. I understand about virtual copies. I just got very confused as to how to separate the one set from the virtual set and keep the same sorting order. If I went back to the original folder and just created a new collection and then cropped them the way I needed, I had to sort them again to match the order of the first collection. Make sense?
Yes. The sort order is set at the bottom left of the main window (you may have to press T to show the Toolbar). Sorting has nothing to do with virtual copies or real images. Each collection or folder can be sorted differently.
The reason virtual copies are a good option for this is because they refer back to the same original file. So even though you can edit a virtual copy so that it’s radically different than the original (e.g. different crop), you’re still storing and backing up just one original file.
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