Keyboard Shortcut for Before/After

Michael Jonas

• 2014年07月10日 12:16

Hi,
Is there a Keyboard shortcut I'm missing to simply view Before and After (all adjustments), rather than creating a Clone Variant and then going to the original image and (choosing Adjustments/Remove settings.... etc.)?

Thanks!
Michael

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  SFA

  • 2014年07月10日 14:00

  If you want to compare to the pre-edit orginal just create a non-clone variant and then you can toggle between them using the cursor keys or put them up on screen side by side.
  
  If you want to compare a new edit set with a previously edited variant (and the original if you wish to dig deeper) create a clone of your existing edit as a new variant, make the edits to that and then you can compare previous and current in the same way using the cursor keys in the browser window to move between the variants.
  
  You can restrict the range of images through which the keys will operate by selecting the images you are interested in in the browser.
  
  A simple idea but effective and fast whilst allowing multiple lookback reference points should you need them.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

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  Michael Jonas

  • 2014年07月12日 02:41

  hi,
  Thanks… Knew about the variants… In Aperture simply clicking "m" goest to original (Master) clicking M again, returns to the edited state.
  Much faster
  Thanks again!

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  SFA

  • 2014年07月12日 11:24

  [quote="Michael6111" wrote:
  hi,
  Thanks… Knew about the variants… In Aperture simply clicking "m" goest to original (Master) clicking M again, returns to the edited state.
  Much faster
  Thanks again!

  
  
  Yep I've read about the Aperture approach and use something similar with another application. (Single action toggle between the current edit and the original file).
  
  However a single keystroke is still a single keystroke no matter which key it is and the option to scroll through several variants if required, rather than just edit and un-edit, is rather useful.
  
  IMO.
  
  
  Grant

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  NN197896UL

  • 2014年07月15日 20:14

  YEssss a function and shortcut for before/after !! please !!

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  Christian Gruner

  • 2014年07月15日 20:42

  As mentioned, the New variant method is probably the way to go in CO
  
  But why the focus on looking backwards ? Why not look forward? I of course understand the need to compare 2 edits, which is easily done with Clone variants and then working in 2 branches. But why would you want to look at the unedited version and compare with the edited? If you like the edited version, stick with it, if you don't like it, adjust it till you do 😊

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  NN197896UL

  • 2014年07月15日 21:22

  It is your mind ! but if you have tha ability with F2 to make a variant it is because you want to cpmpare, no ?
  And all the other software as Aperture Lightroom..have this function.

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  SFA

  • 2014年07月16日 01:07

  [quote="NN197896UL" wrote:
  It is your mind ! but if you have tha ability with F2 to make a variant it is because you want to cpmpare, no ?
  And all the other software as Aperture Lightroom..have this function.

  
  
  I mostly don't feel a need to compare to an original un-edited file. However comparing 2 (or more) edits of the file can be useful.
  
  Maybe, thinking back, when I started to use C1 I missed the "compare with original" function. However the "compare variants" option is easy to activate when I feel the need and I no longer miss the dedicated (but limited) "Compare to Original" when I can so easily create and compare variants. Much more useful.
  
  
  Grant

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  meanwhile

  • 2014年07月16日 04:57

  But why the focus on looking backwards ? Why not look forward? I of course understand the need to compare 2 edits, which is easily done with Clone variants and then working in 2 branches. But why would you want to look at the unedited version and compare with the edited?

  
  
  I can't speak for anyone else but ... for me it's because I often think a change will improve an image, but I'm also "very occasionally" (cough) wrong. While the image you are looking at may feel improved, it's not until I look at the original that I can see whether my adjustments have lost something that the original had, or have overcooked my changes, or if a change I thought would improve it actually made it worse.
  
  The original image to me is not just a starting point, it's the capture of the "original" thought. Sometimes that needs improving, other times leaving it alone (or parts of it) is the right choice, but for me it's not until I take it from the original and then back that that becomes apparent.

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