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1. Re: Virtual Image & Side-by-Side Views.
Noel Carboni Feb 20, 2012 2:09 PM (in response to MikeV99)Regarding "candidate selection", I guess you're wanting to compare several images taken in a session to see which is the best - model had best expression, image was sharper, that sort of thing, right? Someone else will have to comment on how you might do that in Bridge. I personally prefer to use Windows Explorer and a separate viewer - e.g., Windows Photo Viewer or IrfanView. I have multiple monitors and I just put the images I'm comparing in separate instances of the viewer.
Not sure I follow you and know what you mean by "virtual image" (I don't use Lightroom)... You're wanting to show side by side views where you've made a parameter change and see how that affected the image? For those of us not familiar with Lightroom, can you describe what should be in each view? ACR doesn't have side by side views, but you can blink back and forth between the way the image looked before and after making parameter changes, via the little [ ] Preview checkbox at the top of the dialog.
And of course you can panel the same document or multiple documents in multiple windows in Photoshop itself several different ways, if you like seeing things side by side.
It doesn't seem likely you're going to find exact replacements for all the functions in Lightroom. It exists because it provides a streamlined workflow for getting a lot of images processed. But it's certainly not impossible to use the other tools.
-Noel
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2. Re: Virtual Image & Side-by-Side Views.
MikeV99 Feb 20, 2012 2:28 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)Yes, the Compare View in LR3 allows one to:
Scan similar images side-by-side (Select & Candidate) to pick the best one out of many.
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View (Compare) the editing actions on a Virtual Copy with the original image.
I use a Mac.
A Virtual Copy in LR acts as though it is a duplicate file. One can make editing changes to the virtual copy. However, LR just maintains the editing changes rather than creating an actual duplicate of the file. One can create as many virtual copies as is desired and extensively edit them without any changes being made to the original. Since only the a list of changes is maintained it is very hard disk efficient (important when using a MacBook Air).
Thanks.
Mike

