Comments on: What's a Lightroom "Snapshot"

By: Chris Bishop

Chris Bishop — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:40:48 +0000

Snapshots can save a VC out to DNG and hence out of LR.
VC’s are stuck inside LR.
Get a VC to its final state and save it as a snapshot. this is then saved in the DNG and can be read by Bridge and I believe other programs as well??
Chris Bishop

By: ordinaryimages

ordinaryimages — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:54:21 +0000

I Develop for both screen and print. After developing for Screen I hit Cmd/Ctrl + N to make a Snapshot titled Screen. Upon further developing for Print, [usually brighter] I make a Snapshot titled Print. I can choose either edit at a later date to fit the requirement without making a VC. To add tweaks done after the original Snapshot, hold Ctrl/Alt [right click] and hover over a Snapshot, then choose “Update with current settings”.

By: Tony Hart

Tony Hart — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:15:38 +0000

Every single photo I edit gets a ‘Produced’ snapshot once it’s finished. This way I can quickly flick between what I shot, and what I ended up with after editing. It also gives me a starting point if I want to try different versions of an image. It’s a great feature and I’d be lost without it!

By: Craig Ferguson (@cfimages)

Craig Ferguson (@cfimages) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:46:26 +0000

I always use Virtual Copies, mainly because I’ve never tried Snapshots. I’ll give them a try sometime and see if they deserve a place in my workflow.

By: Doug S

Doug S — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:28:19 +0000

Haha! I can’t believe it… This tip just made an extremely repetitive part of my workflow seem so ridiculous. I’m constantly flipping between two history states, then hitting the L twice to black everything out, and then Cmd-Z-ing and Cmd-Shift-Z-ing to see if my changes are for better or for worse.

That was one sweet killer tip, Matt!

And William Haun’s idea about the saving different crops is genius!

Thanks!

By: Paul Weinrauch

Paul Weinrauch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:57:35 +0000

I love snapshots! Snapshots help me get out of my comfort zone and try something different without losing what I think looks good. I try never to be satisfied with OK. Snapshots allow me to push my art a little farther.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:49:19 +0000

Killer Tip! Thanks!

By: Dennis Zito

Dennis Zito — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Hi Matt,

I knew about this from one of your previous trainings, but just lost site of it. I’m in a situation right now where this is a perfect solution! I guess I’m just trying to store too much stuff at one time in my brain! I guess I could use the fact that I’m going on 70 as an excuse.

Thanks for all you do for us!

Dennis

By: David Pearson

David Pearson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:36:58 +0000

How bizarre, I came across this panel last night and wondered what it was.

I will now use this all the time.

Thanks

By: William Haun

William Haun — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:05:16 +0000

I use snapshots all the time to save different crops of a photo. Since standard print sizes aren’t the same ratios (4×6, 5×7, 8×10,11×14, etc…) I use it to make it easy to export a photo for printing at a specific size when a client orders a print.

I title each snapshot based on the ratio it is.