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    Lightroom Classic: Best Practice for Keeping Edits Separate

    November 19, 2025 / Comments Off on 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 Copies Right-click on the image you want to edit and select “Create Virtual Copy.” Virtual Copies let you make different edits to the same…

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    Kevin Carter

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