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Flash and Flicker
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July 9, 2022
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Before and after side by side

  • July 9, 2022
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Hi,

I am new in Lightroom Creative and want to compare my edited image with the inital copy(before) at same tome side by side. I see this feature is avilable in Lightroom classic. Since I started from creative then don;t want to shift to Classic app. 
Anyone can help here o find a way to see before/after side by side in Creative LR ?

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 9, 2022

TBMK- You can create 'Versions' of an image in Lightroom, and you do not make "extra copies" of the original file. Versions act like Virtual copies in Lightroom-Classic in that they are simply another set of edits for the same original image file.

However you still cannot view Versions side-by-side, but you can click on the [Before/After] icon to see a fast change of view.

Enter the Versions panel-

Click [+] to create a new Version with different editing adjustments-

Click the [Before/After] icon to quickly switch the view Before/After-

 

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 .
Timothy.Spear
Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
July 9, 2022

Cumbersom, as a work around I have on a couple occasions duplicated the photo and then use the new compare view.

Not something I really recommened though; easy to end up with extra copies of images....

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