how do you edit a more than one pic at a time in LR2?

lilmomma

I tried highlighting a handful and making some changes in develop mode and it only applied to the picture that was showing. Am i missing something?

jfriend

lilmomma wrote:

I tried highlighting a handful and making some changes in develop mode and it only applied to the picture that was showing. Am i missing something?

Make the changes you want to one image. Then multi-select in the ribbon to include the others by either doing ctrl-click to add more images to the selection or use shift-click on an image to include all images between the current one and the clicked one. Once you have a mutl-selection (but the edited image is still the current image), then hit the Sync button at the lower right. A dialog pops up and it asks you which settings you want to propogate to the other images. Check off the ones you want and they will be copied to all those other images.

lilmomma

wow that just made my life so much simpler...thanks!!

jfriend

lilmomma wrote:

wow that just made my life so much simpler...thanks!!

Yeah, it's the key to editing efficiently in LR. I typically get the white balance right on one image, then propagate it to a whole set in a few seconds.

pathfinder

Melissa,
Another way is to right click an image that you like, and a menu opens up and one of the choices is Develop Settings.

Click on that and then copy settings. You will get a dialogue box asking which settings to copy. You get to choose exactly which of the many settings to copy to your clip board along the way.

Next, highlight your new images, and right click on them again, choose Develop settings, and Paste settings.