Comments on: Lightroom: Controlling the Before and After

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:13:23 +0000

Hi Hellen!
Since i upgrade to LR2.6, when i roll mouse pointe over presets lists, i havent anymore the preview in navigator panel. Can you help me? I try reinstall/repair without sucess.
Thank a lot!

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:12:05 +0000

Hi Hellen.
Since i upgrade to LR2.6, when i roll mouse pointe over presets lists, i havent anymore the preview in navigator panel. Can you help me? I try reinstall/repair without sucess.
Thank a lot!

By: Ricky

Ricky — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:21:10 +0000

Another (quicker) option is just to leave your mouse over ‘Import’ in the edits history and it’ll show a thumbnail of the original in the top left panel!

By: Fletch

Fletch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:20 +0000

To expand on your point on comparing two snapshots, one with sharpening and one without.

Lightroom only renders sharpening when in 1:1 view mode and not when you are zoomed out, therefore if you compare the before and after views they will look identical unless you zoom in. The only way to get round this is to render a 1:1 preview after applying the sharpening as this will show the effect even when zoomed in.

This has been changed/fixed in the LR3 beta so only a couple more months to suffer this issue.

By: Anton Anderson

Anton Anderson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:25:10 +0000

Will the new (free) beta of Lightroom work on a Mac? I’ve just been using iphoto up to this point. Thanks for you tips. Anton

By: Daren Speck

Daren Speck — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:23:36 +0000

I was just looking for this last night.

Thank you!

By: Woods

Woods — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:23:10 +0000

Thanks, I was looking for this one ! Nice tip as always.
– Woods

By: scott e. detweiler

scott e. detweiler — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:56:36 +0000

why not just use the “\” key?

By: Helen Bradley

Helen Bradley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:05:32 +0000

David.. no it isn’t. That’s why it is best to preview the preset using the Navigator windown in the top of the right hand panel – hold your mouse over the preset to view it. If you don’t like it, don’t add it.

However, if you add a preset and want to remove it, press Control + Z (Command + Z on the Mac) to undo it or view the History and choose the history state just prior to the one that added the preset.

Helen

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:47:12 +0000

This is great, I am trying to work out if I add a preset and don’t like and then select another preset, is the first preset removed before the second is applied or is it cumulative ?