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Have Mac G4 laptop. Using Lightroom for first time. I have cropped. How do I save the crop? I seem to be trying to use this as I have used Photoshop and perhaps that is my problem. Thank you, Marianne
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That is so right Marianne, no need to save anything as all your action such as cropping are undoable. The file is ''untouched'' and all that LR has is instructions on what to do with the file.

With a crop, try going to a file you have cropped and in the develop module select the crop tool and you will see your earlier crop show up. You can then alter it or not as you choose.

Hope that helps....



Enjoy LR!!!
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Your crop is already saved! Hit R again, and it'll be revealed. You can change it, or save it as a snapshot, and redo it. When you Export - to a TIFF, PSD or JPEG, the crop will be ''permanent'' for that exported file....

In addition to John, if you edit or export a PSD the crop will show up and be adjustable in ACR or PSCS3.

M-



Whenever you decide to take a master image and edit it for some purpose, you might consider first making a virtual image and then edit that. Your master will still be available to derive other variations in the future, and the virtual copy will be the first edited version. Of course you can create more virtual copies from the master image. Any time you need to use one of these copies in the real world (for print or email, for example) you export.



Of course if you forget to first make a virtual copy and change the original, you can make a virtual copy of that edited version and undo all the editing - voila, a new copy of the original.



- Pierre

Pierre,



It is even better than that:



With the image selected, You can go to the Develop Module, and click on the bottom of the history to see what the image was like on import. While it is showing the import state, switch back to Library Module, and still see the image as it was on import. And if you wish, make a virtual copy of it, as it was on import without having undone the previous editing.



I thought that was pretty cool.

Narsil: I was wondering how to do that. A few times I've tweaked a file only to decide that I should make a virtual copy, first. I've been using the history as an undo list, but didn't really think of it as a /redo/ until now.



Sometimes the most obvious things are right there in front of you.

Great tip, Narsil!



Aperture has two ways to make a version (their ''virtual copies'') - 1) make version from the given image (it may be edited) and 2) make version from the master. That's one thing I'd like to see in LR.



- Pierre