Exporting development settings for a single image?

[chrisd57089592]

Hello,

I'm developing scripted processing pipelines that let me transform segments of drone video into large panoramas. After creating a panorama, I'd like to edit it in Lightroom and save some sort of representation of the transformations made to the original panorama that lead to the final result. Is there some way to save a history of those edits to disk that can be loaded in the future to reproduce the final result?

Thanks for your assistance!

Chris

[Just Shoot Me]

Not that I know of in LR. In PS you could create an action that recorded all the editing steps. But that recording has to be done while you did the edits and or while you did the same edits on another image, not from the history AFAIK.

[chrisd57089592]

I'm less familiar with PS but was planning to explore this path as a last resort. Appreciate the suggestion!

[dj_paige]

You create a develop preset in Lightroom, which essentially saves the final settings of your edits (the actual sequence of changes is not saved).

[chrisd57089592]

I've never tried to save a develop present before but this might be my best option. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Tony_See]

Chris

You may already have considered this but would a Snapshot give you some answer here?

[chrisd57089592]

It sure might Tony. I'll investigate. Thanks!

[johnrellis]

In addition to develop presets and snapshots, there's another way to capture develop settings made to a photo: Do Metadata > Save Metadata To File. This saves all the settings to the XMP metadata, which is stored in the file itself for non-raws and in .xmp sidecars for raws.  You can extract these settings using the free utility ExifTool.

[Bob Somrak]

Develop presets do not save Local Brushing