jjlad
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- Winnipeg, Canada
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- 10.0
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- Windows 10
Hope to get some insight into this.
I have jpeg images that I:
1) imported and smart previews were built for them
2) cropped them, and adjusted white balance and tone
3) exported to Photoshop and performed several functions on them in that
4) saved them as jpegs, overwriting the originals because I had no further use of the original files
5) in Lightroom they all showed the Metadata has been changed flag so I imported the metadata from disk for all of them,
6) that put one more entry at the top of the develop stack showing "Reset Settings"
7) I noticed the "Import" layer in the develop stack now matched the "Reset Settings" layer so for each photo and none of the Steps between the Import and Reset showed any change. I guess that is what happens when you overwrite the image when saving from Photoshop.
8 Because of those steps now being useless I selected the Import step for each photo and Cleared the History Above This Step.
8) I have closed LR and backed up the catalog several times since all this started
Accordingly the originally imported photos are no longer on the disk and the catalog has only the "Reset" images which are now the "Import" layer
Something really weird is happening though. For some reason LR is remembering what the original image looked like and every time I click on a photo it first displays the original image and then morphs into the current image. In that the original image doesn't exist any longer ...where is it getting the original look from?
I'm thinking it is still addressing the Smart Previews that were made during the original import process.
If that is the case I would like to update the smart previews or alternately just get rid of them but I don't see that as an option in the Catalog Settings.
It is both annoying and unnerving to have these ghosts appearing each time I click the affected images (now a thousand or more) so I'd sure like to resolve this.
Thanks
I have jpeg images that I:
1) imported and smart previews were built for them
2) cropped them, and adjusted white balance and tone
3) exported to Photoshop and performed several functions on them in that
4) saved them as jpegs, overwriting the originals because I had no further use of the original files
5) in Lightroom they all showed the Metadata has been changed flag so I imported the metadata from disk for all of them,
6) that put one more entry at the top of the develop stack showing "Reset Settings"
7) I noticed the "Import" layer in the develop stack now matched the "Reset Settings" layer so for each photo and none of the Steps between the Import and Reset showed any change. I guess that is what happens when you overwrite the image when saving from Photoshop.
8 Because of those steps now being useless I selected the Import step for each photo and Cleared the History Above This Step.
8) I have closed LR and backed up the catalog several times since all this started
Accordingly the originally imported photos are no longer on the disk and the catalog has only the "Reset" images which are now the "Import" layer
Something really weird is happening though. For some reason LR is remembering what the original image looked like and every time I click on a photo it first displays the original image and then morphs into the current image. In that the original image doesn't exist any longer ...where is it getting the original look from?
I'm thinking it is still addressing the Smart Previews that were made during the original import process.
If that is the case I would like to update the smart previews or alternately just get rid of them but I don't see that as an option in the Catalog Settings.
It is both annoying and unnerving to have these ghosts appearing each time I click the affected images (now a thousand or more) so I'd sure like to resolve this.
Thanks