Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
This is where your workflow starts to get some legs, because once you've
edited one photo, you can apply those exact same edits to other photos.
For example, in Chapter 5, we fixed the white balance for that one photo.
But what if you shot 260 photos during one shoot? Well, now you can make your
adjustments (edits) to one of those photos, then apply those same adjustments
to as many of the other photos as you'd like. Once you've selected which
photos need those adjustments, the rest is pretty much automated.
Step One:
Let's start by fixing the white balance for
this food shoot. In the Library module,
click on a photo then press
W
, which is
the Adjust White Balance shortcut (it takes
you to the Develop module and gives you
the White Balance Selector tool), so all you
have to do now is click on something light
gray in the photo (I pressed Shift-Y, so
you could see a before/after split view
here). So, that's the first step—fix the
white balance, then press
D
to return
to Loupe view (just a reminder, you can
download this photo and follow along at
Step Two:
Now click the Copy button at the bot-
tom of the left side Panels area. This brings
up the Copy Settings dialog (shown here),
which lets you choose which settings you
want to copy from the photo you just ed-
ited. By default, it wants to copy a bunch of
settings (several checkboxes are turned on),
but since we only want to copy the white
balance adjustment, click on the Check
None button at the bottom of the dialog,
then turn on just the checkbox for White
Balance, and click the Copy button. (
Note:
Be sure to also turn on the Process Version
checkbox if you're copying settings to im-
ages that are using an old process version.)
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