LRList001
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- Joined
- Dec 23, 2012
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- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- 6.x
I must be doing something really obvious wrong, but I can't see it for looking. LR6.14, Windows 10.
I wanted to save the develop history of an image in an XMP sidecar, so exported the metadata (in develop, and yes an xmp sidecar was created next to the source raw file).
As this was an experiment, I removed the image from the catalogue (keeping the original raw file) and then re-imported it (with a bunch of others not relevant to this post).
My import workflow has certain actions, presets are applied etc. using auto sync. I let all that happen and finish. (I do not apply a preset actually at import, I use none, I am referring to my manual workflow steps straight afer an import.) (As this was an import from a camera not mine, it isn't calibrated, my cameras are, based on serial number, but hence the 'none'.)
Now I went to the image I am interested in, switched to Develop and imported the metadata file saved at the beginning.
After a warning that this action can't be undone, I ended up with an image that had been 'reset'. I was expecting to end up with the identical image to the one I started with (albeit with a different develop history), but I was expecting the sliders to be where I had put them before exporting the metadata.
Where have I gone wrong?
TIA.
I wanted to save the develop history of an image in an XMP sidecar, so exported the metadata (in develop, and yes an xmp sidecar was created next to the source raw file).
As this was an experiment, I removed the image from the catalogue (keeping the original raw file) and then re-imported it (with a bunch of others not relevant to this post).
My import workflow has certain actions, presets are applied etc. using auto sync. I let all that happen and finish. (I do not apply a preset actually at import, I use none, I am referring to my manual workflow steps straight afer an import.) (As this was an import from a camera not mine, it isn't calibrated, my cameras are, based on serial number, but hence the 'none'.)
Now I went to the image I am interested in, switched to Develop and imported the metadata file saved at the beginning.
After a warning that this action can't be undone, I ended up with an image that had been 'reset'. I was expecting to end up with the identical image to the one I started with (albeit with a different develop history), but I was expecting the sliders to be where I had put them before exporting the metadata.
Where have I gone wrong?
TIA.