Lightroom Tip - Before | After Editing Tricks


Lightroom has a very useful 'Before/After' function which allows you to switch back and forward in the Develop Module between the original, and edited image, using the '\' key.
The default behavior of 'Before/After' is to switch between the current state and the un-edited image.
What you may not know is that you can choose which individual Lightroom history state you want to switch between!

There are many other Before/After ' views available from the Toolbar, including top-bottom, left-right splits plus the same views but with a split-screen.


Lightroom Before After_1

So how do you select intermediate states?

If you right-click on any of the History states you will see a menu and you can select 'Copy History Step Settings to Before'. as shown below. This allows you to switch back and forth between an intermediate editing state.

Lightroom Before After_2

This is particularly useful when you are working on black and white image conversions. If you use the default you will switch back and forward between a colour and a black and white image.

You can set the Before/After point to switch between the Convert to Grayscale state and your current edit. Much more useful. Especially for black and white work.


Let me know if this tip helps you.

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