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If you're not sure where you want to go in processing a photo, you might want
to work on a vc i rst, then later sync the settings from the vc to back to the
original. (Syncing is covered in the next few pages.)

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By default, a virtual copy is stacked with its original. For more information
about stacks, see Chapter 3.

To make a vc, right-click or Ctrl+click on a photo, and from the popup menu
select Create Virtual Copy, or use the shortcut.

Deleting originals also deletes VC s
Virtual copies exist only in the Lightroom database. If the original i le on disk
is removed from Lightroom its vcs will also be removed.

Resetting adjustments
h ere will be times when you want
to remove Lightroom adjustments
from one or more photos. Resetting
restores the default settings and
removes any settings you've applied
since the photo was imported
(excluding any evelop presets
applied during import, which
would remain).

Resetting a virtual copy will revert
its settings back to those in ef ect at
the time it was created.

⌘ +Shift+R or
Ctrl+Shift+R
Reset all the
adjustments
on selected
photo(s)

Resetting is undoable. Like most
everything else in Lightroom, if
you Reset a photo and then change
your mind, simply Undo it ( ⌘ +Z or
Ctrl+Z).

h ere are several options for
resetting some or all adjustments
applied to a photo:

• Reset an adjustment slider by
double-clicking its name;

Figure 4-115