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1. Re: Perplexed about CC LR5.2
rollsnut Oct 10, 2013 3:39 PM (in response to rollsnut)Got it figured out. For some reason I have to go through and RESET all photos from previous adjustments maybe because they were done in a previous version of Bridge.
Sorry if I took up your time looking.
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2. Re: Perplexed about CC LR5.2
richardplondon Oct 12, 2013 1:22 AM (in response to rollsnut)You do not have to reset the images completely, in order to bring them up to the latest "process version" which shows the different Basic panel adjustments etc. This change of process version certainly does happen as a side-effect of Reset, but that comes at the cost of removing all edits and adjustments, crop, etc - including many which you could have kept.
One way to change the process version of an image, is to look below the histogram at top right, in Develop. A "lightning bolt" icon shows, and when you move your mouse pointer over that area, it shows the process version which that image is currently using. An older process version does not use all of the latest Basic panel sliders, and does use some which are no longer used in the latest PV - so you may see e.g. Fill Light but not see e.g. Shadows. The image's current processing relies on Fill Light etc the same as always, instead of on Shadows etc as newly imported images do - not wrong, just different.
If you printed it a year ago, then provided you leave it alone, you will get the same results now - that is the point of Process Versions - they migrate your data smoothly through changes in the software, under your control.
Clicking on the lightning icon brings the image up to the latest PV. The (e.g.) Fill light setting it currently has will now be ignored, and a default Shadows setting will be assigned which may not be appropriate, and some other settings will now achieve different results slightly - especially since your particular Fill Light setting from before, is now being ignored. So there will need to be some corrective work, done in a quite trial-and-error way, before you will be fully happy that the image is as well adjusted as before - or hopefully, better. It will generally start out slightly, or noticeably, worse - depending on the specifics of the image, and of how you previously edited that.
For these reasons, it is IMO a bad idea to bring images which currently work perfectly well (even if this is achieved using the old-style adjustments) unless and until you have a particular need to use the new-style adjustments, to justify that extra work and disruption. When you do want to update, there is a special menu item in Settings - or this is also shown in the Camera Calibration panel. From there, normal LR techniques can be used to apply the same selection of process version, onto other images as well. The application of a given PV can be included into a Develop preset / Copy-Paste / Sync operation, or not, as required.
RP


