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How to copy only ONE local adjustment?

David Green Photography
I have multiple local adjustments on an image, and I only want to copy ONE across to another image/s (the destination image/s also has multiple local adjustments which I don't want to affect). How do I do this?

So far I've only succeeded in copying all of the local adjustments from image to another.

Thanks in advance
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  • Ian Wilson
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    It's not entirely clear how you are copying a local adjustment from one image to another. Can one do that? But if you wanted to you could make a variant of the source image and on that variant remove all but the local adjustments you wanted to copy.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    Copy them all and then remove the ones you don't want - or perhaps just disable them in case you change your mind.

    Or Ian's suggestion - the result will be much the same.

    That said, unless the adjustments are on very similar files or are acceptable as generic changes there may not really be much to be gained by copying rather than re-creating in my opinion.

    YMMV.


    Grant
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  • David Green Photography
    Ian, Grant, thanks for the feedback.

    To copy the local adjustment/s I have been going to the 'Local Adjustments' tab, then selecting the 'Copy and Apply' icon and then selecting 'Apply'.

    The overriding problem I'm encountering is that when you copy and apply a local adjustment to an image it deletes the previous local adjustments that were on the image. Trying both your suggestions this problem still remains. (I'm aiming to keep existing local adjustments and add additional ones).

    Grant - I'm working on animations frames so the images stay consistent, except for a few moving components.

    Thanks
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  • SFA
    David Green Photography wrote:
    Ian, Grant, thanks for the feedback.

    To copy the local adjustment/s I have been going to the 'Local Adjustments' tab, then selecting the 'Copy and Apply' icon and then selecting 'Apply'.

    The overriding problem I'm encountering is that when you copy and apply a local adjustment to an image it deletes the previous local adjustments that were on the image. Trying both your suggestions this problem still remains. (I'm aiming to keep existing local adjustments and add additional ones).

    Grant - I'm working on animations frames so the images stay consistent, except for a few moving components.

    Thanks


    OK, I think animation frames qualify as likely to be quite consistent!

    Usually when I am copying local adjustments it is from a single processed image to a set of non-processed images (or sub-variants) so I don't recall coming across the "existing layers overwritten" challenge - although it does sound vaguely familiar and does not surprise me.)

    I do that as a complete copy everything from the already edited image to the target image rather than at the Layer tool level, my needs being different to yours.

    Having just tested I can confirm that existing adjustments are overwritten no matter whether copy all adjustments or just the Locals. I would guess that changing the process to do anything different might require quite a bit re-working whilst having to take into account the current maximum number of Local Adjustments supported. (That's easy enough when you know that the C&P will always be limited to the maximum number but not so easy if you have start counting both sides and, perhaps, look for duplicates of the same adjustment and ask whether it is to be duplicated or overwritten - or even discarded.)

    The only solution I can think of at the moment is to work up one frame with all adjustments (created manually) and then copy the whole set to all frames. However, if you are adding fixed background adjustments to the frames when the "moving" component has already been individually tweaked that's not likely to work well.

    The other way around, adjust the unchanging part first then revisiting for the "moving" parts, would be viable but probably not always possible.

    To be quite honest I suspect that you may need something that is not easily achieved. A video editor might offer something closer to your requirements but perhaps not in all things and not from RAW files? (I don't know, my knowledge of them is extremely limited.)

    You could create a Support Case and put in an "Enhancement Request: <summary name>" as the title but that is unlikely to provide you with an instant solution to your need. (Unless such things are addressed in a specialised commercial version of C1 adapted for specific functions.)

    An interesting challenge but something only the Phase crew can help with if it is to be self contained within C1.

    The only other thing I can think of would be to create a new unedited variant for each frame, copy and apply the additional layers to all of those. Process/export both versions of the image and merge them in an external application. Whether that makes any sense for your requirement I have no idea. Somehow I doubt it would.


    HTH.


    Grant
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  • David Green Photography
    Grant, really thorough explanations. Appreciate it.

    The solution I ended up using was working on overall adjustments first, then coming back and working on the moving elements of the animation (as articulated in your points). Not perfect, but I got there in the end.

    As you've said it doesn't sounds like the perfect solution solution exists in C1. I was unaware of a 'Support Case' so thanks for pointing that out. I might see where that goes

    Thanks again for your help

    David
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