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Is it possible to lock or save a variant?

Anonymous
I usually end up making a series of tweaks and adjustments over time as I perfect an image; some of these are productive while others are dead ends. AND sometimes I will create three or four useful versions with different cropping, colors, etc.

And I often forget to move to a new variant when I come back to the image and end up destroying and loosing some settings.

Thoughts?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I don't know if this will help you but do you know that by selecting a Clone Version (to subsequently edit) it will automatically Stack with the Original? I discovered it when exploring and just wanting a different crop version to keep of the same image.
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  • brianmerwin
    Currently there is no way to lock any of the variant versions, and given that you're editing a virtual image that has no physical file reference on the disk drive (aside from a preview file) there isn't really anything to lock. This also isn't a feature in any other RAW processors on the market that allow for clones/variants/virtual copies. At least not that I've seen (and I've used most of them).

    So in this case the solution is probably just... pay more attention to what you're doing.

    That said, the best way to get this on the actual development team's radar is to make an actual feature request here:
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  • Ario
    [quote="brianmerwin" wrote:
    Currently there is no way to lock any of the variant versions, and given that you're editing a virtual image that has no physical file reference on the disk drive (aside from a preview file) there isn't really anything to lock. This also isn't a feature in any other RAW processors on the market that allow for clones/variants/virtual copies. At least not that I've seen (and I've used most of them).

    So in this case the solution is probably just... pay more attention to what you're doing.

    That said, the best way to get this on the actual development team's radar is to make an actual feature request here:

    This is not exactly true, in Lr, in addition to an ulimited development history there are "snapshots": a snapshot is a freeze-frame of your photo at that moment in time. It’s a way to save all of your develop settings at a certain point in case you ever wanted to revert back to them.
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  • dee jjjaaaa
    [quote="brianmerwin" wrote:
    This also isn't a feature in any other RAW processors on the market that allow for clones/variants/virtual copies. At least not that I've seen (and I've used most of them).

    just like with LR, Adobe's ACR has snapshots - so you can save the state of the parametric raw conversion per each specific image (instead of saving that globally like a "style")... another thing that I am missing in C1 is that you can't reopen it and apply the last conversion before exiting it... at least on per session basis.
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  • HansB
    +1 for adding locked variants. 😊

    I like that idea. But I don't need snapshots. I prefer doing it with variants, because I can compare them side by side.


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • dee jjjaaaa
    [quote="HansB" wrote:
    +1 for adding locked variants. 😊

    I like that idea. But I don't need snapshots. I prefer doing it with variants, because I can compare them side by side.


    Regards,
    Hans


    but you can compare snapshots in Adobe side by side 😊 ... so 1:0, Adobe wins
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  • Ario
    [quote="HansB" wrote:
    +1 for adding locked variants. 😊

    I like that idea. But I don't need snapshots. I prefer doing it with variants, because I can compare them side by side.


    Regards,
    Hans

    A snapshot is de facto a locked variant.
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  • HansB
    I don't see a winner or loser here, I made this statement based on my personally preferred workflow. 😊
    And I see a snapshot only as a state I can return to, not as a locked state.

    A lock would also tell me: You finished this one. It's published. If you want to do more, create a new variant.

    I have variants to create for example a full color, a b/w, a sepia toned and a red only version of a shot side by side. Or to have different crops for different media. I would never do that with snapshots. But on the other hand I have no problem to clone a variant to keep a snapshot.

    My PS is non-cloud CS6, and I am not a LR owner myself. But I am not afraid to use it. 😉
    I only use it when discussing shots and adjustments my friends made, and on their computers.

    As far as I know, I can have more than one snapshot on a variant in LR. And I know I can have multiple variants. Combined I can have multiple variants, each containing multiple snapshots. Right? Which one is the locked one? So, a lock would be a nice feature in LR, too.

    By the way, I do use the snapshot functionality PS offers. And I like it. But it is a different way of working. I am working on one single image, not on a set of possible variants, or a set of shots from a shooting.

    I'm not sure if can see snapshots in LR's browser bar to choose from or if they can handle different tags and ratings, like a locked variant would.


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • Permanently deleted user

    Old thread, but I am also missing the possibility to lock a variant from which I can derive all my experiments with color and white balance and whatnot.

    >So in this case the solution is probably just... pay more attention to what you're doing.

    I assume this was an attempt at humour. Software like C1 is there to make our lives easier I would say, not to have yet another thing that we need to pay attention to.

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