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photrain
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July 17, 2023
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Panels in the develope mode are turned off or locked out.

  • July 17, 2023
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How do I turn all my develop module panels "on."  I not talking about the "triangles, but what used to be a box like switch on the left side of the panel.  Now it looks like and eye with a slash through it.  Is there a universal way to just turn on all develop module panels?  For some reason, thousands of my older photos have had panels turned off.  And now with the recent update I can even access them.  That mean all my edits are turned off.

 

Thank you.

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    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 18, 2023

    Hold down the [ALT / OPT] key and the 'eye' changes to the 'old' switch icon that can be mouse-clicked to switch [off/on] one panel.

    Clips show with all panels collapsed-

      

     

    Perhaps something close to switching off ALL panels would be simply pressing backslash [ \ ] for a "Before" view of the image.

     

    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 .
      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 17, 2023

      If all panels look like this, then it means that the develop module does not work. Most likely because the image is missing.

       

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
      photrain
      photrainAuthor
      Participant
      July 17, 2023
      Thank you for responding.

      The developer module works, it is just that several of the panels are turned off. I tried reseting the preferences, but that did not solve the problem. I am look for a way to just turn on all the panels all at once for all my photos. The problem is only with older photos and not with ones I have taken within the last 6 or 7 years. To see the effect of the edits I have made to older photos, I have turn on each panel individually. Now with the recent update it requires two clicks for each panel.
      R
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      richardplondonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 18, 2023

      If you turn on AutoSync in the Develop module, hold Alt and click to toggle a given panel so it's active, that happens for all other currently highlighted images too. So you won't have to do this photo by photo.

       

      I can't explain how all these panels may have now got toggled off, if that's not something the OP had done previously. Maybe 'optimize' the Catalog, can't do any harm, also close and reopen to give LrC a chance to do an integrity check.

       

      Just to be clear on the new 'eye' icons - a greyed-out 'eye' just means that the adjustments within that panel happen to still be zeroed, not that the panel itself is turned off. It is specifically the crossed-out 'eye' that denotes a turned-off panel. 

       

      IIRC a turned-off panel used not to affect output, nor what showed in Library - only the interface and preview within Develop module. That behaviour seems to have changed meanwhile: I've just tested output from 12.4 Windows, and that failed to include the adjustments of a panel that was disabled (alt+click on eye, toggle switch). The new eye-icon method isn't a switch, it just gives a momentary 'peek'. One may have done the same with the old toggle switch but not have turned it back on for whatever reason. So I am a bit puzzled at what Adobe may have in mind, if I am right that the practical action of these legacy panel-switches is different than before.

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