Comments on: Lightroom Virtual Copies: The Ultimate Guide https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/ Digital Photography Tips and Tutorials Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:11:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Chicago Native https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-785441 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:11:34 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-785441 In reply to Johanna.

Not sure. When I export from LR, the crop and ratio are retained

]]> By: Johanna https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-785440 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:25:16 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-785440 In reply to Mr. Ed.

I do this, too, but have found that when I export the cropped virtual copy the crops are lost and the whole photo is exported. My work-around is to export to PS, tell it to save changes (none), and close to send it back to LR, then I can export the cropped photo. There must be a better way. What am I missing?

]]> By: Big Fuzzy https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-716667 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 22:58:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-716667 To save time, I often process the subject one way, then the BG in another way, select them both and edit them in PS as layers so that I can simply and quickly merge the two.

]]> By: Darlene Hildebrandt https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-697450 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 19:51:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-697450 In reply to Mr. Ed.

Yup I do that too!

]]> By: kenyongerbrandt https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-697171 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:28:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-697171 Sometimes I use virtual copies to create an HDR (if you shoot and import RAW files) especially now that LR has the merge to HDR function built in.

]]> By: Andrew S. Gibson https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-696583 Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:26:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-696583 In reply to Dewan Demmer.

Thanks for sharing Dewan. Nice photos!

]]> By: Dewan Demmer https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-696532 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:19:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-696532 Virtual Copies is (are?) your friend, well they mine ate any rate. I use virtual copies to do anything from a Black and white duplicate to creating an alternate result.
As was mentioned in the article it is a great way to test out a different look or extra edit without changing your original finished edit. While you can stack I do find that creating to many virtual copies ( generally of separate images ) can start to make things messy and opens the door for mistakes to creep in.

This made me think of a set of images I have, with this set I really got into the virtual copies. It was also with this set I learned to many virtual copies can be messy. Now With the set of images I created a few varied sets. The Main couple photos I created Virtual copies from the original and used these to create Black and White and a seperate ‘dusty’ version. The nice thing with Virtual Copies is on export all these different versions can be exported with no extra effort.
( http://www.dewandemmer.com/a-trafalgar-tavern-wedding-in-greenwich/ )
If you browser through you will see a few dusty in amongst the clear types. I do not show a direct comparison but I thought it could be a fair ‘real’ example

]]> By: Andrew S. Gibson https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-696503 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:29:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-696503 Glad to help. Will see what we can do about soft proofing!

]]> By: Andrew S. Gibson https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-696502 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:28:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-696502 In reply to Mr. Ed.

That’s a great use for Virtual Copies! Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Mr. Ed https://digital-photography-school.com/5-ways-to-use-lightroom-virtual-copies-better/comment-page-1/#comment-696413 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:24:00 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=92867#comment-696413 I frequently use Virtual Copies to create different crop ratios. For example, out of the camera the ratio is 2×3 (which works fine for 4×6 prints), but another virtual copy could be for an 8×10 / 16×20 print, another for 5×7, another for square crop, another for 16×9 ratio for display on monitors or TV, etc.

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