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Lightroom Classic: Best Practice for Keeping Edits Separate

In Adobe Lightroom Classic, when you copy a Collection, the edits and adjustments made to images in the original Collection are also applied to the copied Collection. This means that changes made to a photo in either Collection will update in both. Unfortunately, there is no direct way to create a complete copy of the Collection that maintains separate edits from the original image directly within Lightroom. However, there is a way to work around that by creating a Collection from another Collection.1. Create Virtual CopiesRight-click on the image you want to edit and select “Create Virtual Copy.” Virtual Copies let you make different edits to the same image without altering the original. In turn, this lets you edit each Virtual Copy independently, and allows separate output (a

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