Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Lightroom keeps track of every edit you make to your photo and it displays
them as a running list, in the order they were applied, in the Develop module's
History panel. So if you want to go back and undo any step, and return your
photo to how it looked at any stage during your editing session, you can do that
with just one click. Now, unfortunately, you can't just pull out one single step
and leave the rest, but you can jump back in time to undo any mistake, and
then pick up from that point with new changes. Here's how it's done:
Undoing Changes
Step One:
Before we look at the History panel,
I just wanted to mention that you can
undo anything by pressing
Command-Z
(PC: Ctrl-Z)
. Each time you press it, it
undoes another step, so you can keep
pressing it and pressing it until you get
back to the very first edit you ever made
to the photo in Lightroom, so it's possible
you won't need the History panel at all
(just so you know). If you want to see a
list of all your edits to a particular photo,
click on the photo, then go to the History
panel in the left side Panels area (shown
here). The most recent changes appear
at the top. (
Note:
A separate history list
is kept for each individual photo.)
Step Two:
If you hover your cursor over one of the
history states, the small Navigator panel
preview (which appears at the top of the
left side Panels area) shows what your
photo looked like at that point in history.
Here, I'm hovering my cursor over the
point a few steps back where I had con-
verted this photo to black and white,
but since then I changed my mind and
switched back to color.
