Find Photos with Development Adjustments

Let's say I have 100 photos in my folder/collection/whatever.
But only 2 have any Development Adjustments applied - the other 98 are untouched.
Is there any way in Lightroom to perform a Find / Filter / something so that only the 2 modified photos are shown?

The reason I ask is that I'm importing JPGs. They, of course, end up in separate folders. Most of them are fine, but a few need tweaking.
This might happen over the course of a month.
So at the end of the month, I might have 15 directories - mostly original JPGs but a few edited.
In order to upload my pics to Snapfish, I have to "export" the modified JPGs to a new JPG, but only *copy* the unmodified.
If I forget to export the modified JPGs, when I upload I'll be copying the original JPG sans LR edits, hence my need for a quick and foolproof way of finding altered JPGs.

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How do you filter for photos with develop adjustments?

I wanted to put this information out there, because it was difficult for me to find an answer to the question of "how do you quickly filter for photos that have develop adjustments?"
Some earlier posts in this forum observe that a smart collection has the ability to filter files wherein "has adjustments" is "true." Yes, it can do that. And it can also add in a "date" parameter for more specific targeting. But it cannot simply say, "in the current folder," or "in the selected folder." And frankly, that's the exact situation when I need to filter down to the files I want: I'm in a folder—typically the current folder that I've just imported—and I've done a smattering of develop adjustments. Now, I want to quickly select just those images for export. Can't be done, not with a Smart Collection, anyway.
But Lightroom is nothing if not deep, and if you approach the problem from a filtering standpoint, it will eventually get you there—but the solution is very non-obvious. Expose the filter bar, with your favorite preset: camera info, default columns... it doesn't really matter. Hover over the header bar and to the far right will become visible the "add column" widget. Add a column. From the pop-up menu on the name will come a long list of options, the second-to-last of which is "develop preset." Once that's in place, click on "custom." Save your current settings as a new preset and give it a descriptive name like "adjusted images."
Now, when you're in your current—or any—folder, just click on "metadata" in the filter bar, and your custom preset will be in effect: any images that you've worked on will be selected. It's a fast, one-click selection.
If there's another way of doing this (keep in mind it's for the selected or current folder only), let me know. It's such a seemingly desirable action that I'm kind of astounded there's no built-in or easy or obvious way to do it... or that no photographer has requested it.

I am honored to have a response from Rikk "MVP" Flohr, and I do readily agree that your approach is one way to approach the issue. It puts the relevant images in a discrete area that is easy to access. However (this is where I look a gift horse in the mouth) I find "sorts" a bit underwhelming in comparison to "filtering." Two problems: first, the sort still does not 'clear your deck' of unwanted images. You still have to squint at the badges and carefully select the range at the top (or bottom). Mistakes can be made (and I would be the first to make them). Second, the sort command is "sticky," meaning that folder will always have that sort unless you undo it. In general, I think most photographers want to see a folder's images sorted by capture time, so they can easily glance to the beginning, middle, and end of the shoot. With my method, once you click out of the folder, the filter is taken away and you're back to normal.
I do understand that Lightroom wants me to flag my images with rankings or stars or colors or dancing beavers or what-have-you. But in this particular situation, that's an extra step. If I've applied development adjustments, it's already done. Why shouldn't I be able to choose "Select Developed Photos" from the Edit menu, right under "Select Flagged Photos"?

Filter on "Photo has Develop adjustments" flag?

Is there any way to filter on the "Photo has Develop adjustments" flag? I can't find it, but the filtering capability seems a bit opaque to me so maybe I'm just missing it.

Mike, once you're in the smart collection, you can then filter further by using the filter bar in grid view (if it's missing, hit the '\' key). You can type the directory name in the text filter. If you have directories with similar names, I saw a post from Dirk Jan de Ridder that shows how to search for exact words:
Try
+Fall+ (finds all photos containing the exact word 'fall')
+Fall (all photos starting with 'fall')
Fall+ (all photos ending with 'fall')

Is there any way to copy a photo with Lightroom adjustments without making a separate copy?

I do most of my printing from lightroom. I generally set up my image the way I want it for printing on photo paper, and then I make other copies and adjustments for printing on things like Canvas, coffee cups, tiles, etc.
The problem I have is I set up templates in photoshop, say for a coffee cup, which will have the correct dimensions, perhaps some text, etc. To get to the lightroom photo with the lightroom adjustments I have to "edit a copy with lightroom adjustments" in photoshop, then copy and paste the image to the template in photoshop. Now I have another copy of the image on my harddrive and in lightroom. So after I copy the image in photoshop, I close it go back to lightroom and delete the copy I just made. Besides the extra fragging on the harddrive this creates, I know I am setting myself to delete the wrong photo by accident through repetition, and it is extra work.
How can get a copy of a photo with Lightroom adjustments to the clipboard without making another physical copy of the photo?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Godspeed,
Bruce

I may not be the best resource for tiles and cups, I've just started printing to them. Basically I'm doing them using an epson printer with dye sublimation inks printing on transfer paper and then doing the transfer at 400 degrees with a press. I wanted to be able to do my own to get the cost down, and wanted to be able to make it actually usable, (dishwasher safe, etc) so this is the best route I've found. I had to get a new printer, 2 presses, a bulk ink system, and the supplies to print on so it is a pretty hefty up front expense. It can be done cheaper though using a mug wrap heated in an oven (not your cooking oven though). I worked with the folks at Conde to get set up, and they seem pretty good. But I'm still early in the learning curve, so I would be able to tell you a lot more in 6 months.

Can you export a raw file photo with Lightroom adjustments attached?

Can you export a raw file photo from Lightroom with Lightroom adjustments attached in some way? If not what is the equivalent? There are some individuals I would like to send the full data of the raw file, but with the non-destructive Lightroom adjustments layered on top.
--Gerry

You can select "Original" as the file type, in Export. This saves out a copy of the imported source file into the selected location, labelling the current adjustments onto that image. When this is sent to somebody and imported to LR / opened in ACR, these metadata will be found and used automatically, with the exact same outcome as within your own LR Catalog - provided the LR / ACR versions are sufficiently compatible, and provided camera and lens profiles applied to the image, are present in both contexts.
LR uses whatever method is normal when writing metadata, for each file type involved. So, if one imported file is a proprietary Raw file, LR will write an XMP file alongside. If another is capable of having metadata written into its file header, LR will do that instead.
One important difference between doing this, vs writing LR metadata out to your original imported file, and sending that: the Export Original method will work in the same way, just as successfully, for one or more Virtual Copy versions (duplicating physically as needed), as it will for the primary Master version - relating to a given imported file.

"Photo has Develop adjustments" when none made

Hello,
I am importing a JPG photo into Lightroom 5.4.
In the Import screen, in the "Apply During Import" section, both the "Develop Settings" and the "Metadata" fields are set to "None".
Yet, as the import process progresses, I see the correct thumbnail being changed as develop adjustments take place automatically (cropping and turning the colour image into black and white, at least that's all I notice). Why does this happen and how can I prevent it from happening?
I assume the instructions are embedded in the JPG file, which I created in Photoshop (and saved as both PSD and JPG), since it happens in two Lightroom installations, one on the Mac and one on Windows 7 (brand new installation). When I switch to the Develop module, the only step in history is the import.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks,
Gabor

Yet, as the import process progresses, I see the correct thumbnail being changed as develop adjustments take place automatically (cropping and turning the colour image into black and white, at least that's all I notice). Why does this happen and how can I prevent it from happening?
Initially, Lightroom is showing you the RAW file's embedded JPG preview, which has all in-camera adjustments applied.
When it changes, you get a completely unadjusted RAW photo, none of the in-camera adjustments are applied. It is then up to you to edit the photo to make it look the way you want.
There is no way to prevent this from happening in Lightroom.
If you really like the initial view, then you might want to shoot JPG instead of RAW; or alternatively learn to use Lightroom to produce photos that might have superior image quality to the JPG. You can, if you want, develop your own Lightroom presets that can be applied either globally or individually to enhance your photos.
I disagree that the initial view you see is "correct" (your word) as there are an infinite number of renderings of this image, it is not reasonable to say that one is "correct"; the JPG view is still edited in various ways by the in-camera algorithm, there is nothing sacred or correct about the in-camera algorithm.

Find photos with matching capture times?

I've been using Lightroom as a way to develop RAW images for sometime but I have only recently started to use it as an organizer in a serious way. I've transferred 25000+ photos from various Photoshop Elements catalogs into one Lightroom (2.6) catalog.
Due to the way I imported from Elements, I have a number a versions of the same photo - for example: DSC4041.JPG and DSC4041_edited.JPG.
I would like to focus my attention on photos that have the same capture time and do some tidying up of the new catalog. While I can sort by capture time which would put these "duplicates" together, 25000 photos is a bit many to glance through.
I cannot discover a way to filter the photos to show just the near duplicates. I can use the Stack by capture time to create stacks of photos with the same capture time but then I cannot discover a way to persuade Lightroom to show me only stacked photos?
Any suggestions?

Thanks for this suggestion. My folder heirarchy is already organized by date so I could do what you suggest - but it still basically involves looking at each day and effectively glancing (however briefly) at too many shots.
I've decided instead that I will hunt down duplicates or near duplicates in the file system itself - remove what should go and then ask Lightroom to resync the folder heirarchy which should remove the duplictes. I always write metadata changes directly to the photos and I have backups of the catalogs and the photos should my approach create problems.

Using Faces to find photos with multiple people

I'm new to Aperture and I'm eager to learn how to make it work. One of the tasks I often need to do is find photos that have two people in it - me and my sister, for example. How can I use Faces to search my library in this way?
Thank you!

Depending on your level of Aperture knowledge another way to create what TD suggests is to shift click both the required Faces in the Library> Faces window, then drag the two selected faces left into the Library pane, Aperture will create a Smart Album for you, then select the Search icon for the new smart album and select "All" as default is "Any" (this param is near top left hand corner).
John

Restoring photos with all adjustments maintained to new mac

I recently got a new iMac i7 with Snow Leopard so I installed Aperture 2 on it and upgraded it to the latest release 2.1.4
I backed up all the photos from Aperture 1.5.6 running on my G5 to a vault on an external HDD and then restored the vault on Aperture 2.1.4 using the Vault --> Restore-Library option.
All my photos appear to be present but none of the adjustments I had made to the RAW files (from a Canon 40D) appear.
How can I restore my Aperture Library on my new mac with all the adjustments intact?
Thanks

For information, I have resolved this problem.
Aperture libraries between 1 and 2 are not compatible. If you back up a library to the vault in Aperture 1.5.6 as I did, it does not restore everything in Aperture 2.1.4 only the masters, no versions.
The way I solved this was to upgrade Aperture 1.5.6 on my G5 to Aperture 2.1.4 Then backup the library to the vault on my external drive. Then restore the vault on my external drive to Aperture 2.1.4 running on my new intel mac.
This seems to have worked well and all my versions with adjustments are now present.
Apple really should document this as a lot of people on G5s were waiting to get an intel mac before upgrading Aperture. If the new version of Aperture is 64-bit (10.5 and up, no tiger support) then even more PowerPC users running Aperture 1.5.6 will get caught out when they get a new mac and upgrade Aperture.

How to find photos with no original or digitized date?

I have probably 500-1000 photos that have neither Original or Digitized Date info. They are scattered all throughout my iPhoto library (30,000). They do have Modified and Imported Dates; but of course, not only do those dates differ (sometimes substantially) from when the photo was taken, iPhoto seems to use the Modified Date for sorting purposes if the Original Date isn't there. That means these "dateless" photos are way out of sequence when View, Sort Photos is set to By Date.
What I need is some way to easily find these photos. I can't set the date search feature to a "null" value, nor can I create a smart album that filters for a null date value. If I slowly scroll through all my photos and watch the numbers carefully, I can usually see which photos have no Original Date because they're out of sequence, but with 30,000 photos, that's going to take forever.
Does anyone know any tricks or third-party software for this?
Thanks!

If a file doesn't have an EXIF date then the file created/modified date is used by iPhoto. Files that have been scanned or optimized for web use fall into that category.
The demo version ofMedia Expression can catalog an iPhoto library and then with a search for Date is after 1/1/84 you will find all files with an EXIF date. After applying a label to all found you can display all files without a label which would be your files. How you would then identify those so that they can be found in iPhoto I don't know. Any keywords you might add or other metadata would not be recognized by iPhoto unless they were reimported. If you are interested in trying that post back and I can give you a workflow. It would involve creating a new library and importing the Originals folder of the old library after you run Expression Media on it to embed the keywords (those from iPhoto and those you add to the dateless files), titles and comments to the files. It can be done but might be a bit involved.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Trying to export photos with exposure adjustments from iphoto

I made colour adjustments and exposure changes in iphoto, then exported to the library, for preparation to upload to my preferred photo hosting site, but the exposure and colour changes were not kept after exporting, is there a setting to allow this?

When you export the original you get the original - that is exactly what the camera took, the "original" - so that has no edits or other changes
If you export as a JPEG you get the current version
It may or may not be the same resolution as the original depending on what edits you have done
LN

Find photos using the Library Filter bar

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WSAB7B303E-081D-4617-BF47-B4B8D3D49CC3.htm l

I have created smart collections to organize pics of my family. My name is Ed so, any word with the suffix "ed" or other words become part of my smart collection folder. The instructions, above, say
"Contains Words Searches for text that contains all specified alphanumeric sequences as whole words. To find photos with the keyword flower using a Contains Word search, for example, type flower."
The option "Contains Words" does not show up in my version of LR3. Where is it, then?

How can I create a new catalog of all my photos with no develop adjustments?

I use Lightroom 4.3. I tried this by deleting the old catalog, and creating a new one, thinking that the develop adjustments would no longer exist after first deleting the old catalog. The develop adjustments were still there. (I deleted the catalog out of the lightroom sub-folder of My Pictures.)
The reason that I want to do this is that I have one folder (of about 800 important photos) where something went very wrong in Lightroom, and every time I try to pull up one of the photos my whole computer stalls. Everything works beautifully in my other folders. I even re-installed Lightroom. I want to re-add those dng photos without the develop adjustments. It doesn't bother me if none of my files have develop adjustments. I save all of my files after they are adjusted. I save the DNGs also.
Thanks,
Jennifer

One easy way: reset after importing (which can be done from library module - e.g. main menu, context menu, quick-develop...). If you can't even get that far, consider using exiftool to strip the xmp from DNGs and/or jpegs, or just delete xmp sidecar file in case of proprietary raw.

How can I synchronize my iPhoto events? my iTunes doesn't read them and with the app Images in the iPad I can only find Photos, Albums, Faces and Places, not Events.

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IPhoto frustrating error..The volume for "Df23.JPG" cannot be found. It prompts for all photos with this issue rather than offering an option to ignore. I can find the images in spotlight but not in Find Photo. Does anyone have a solution

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Unless you have the source files that were on the TC or Windows machine you will have to start over with a new library as follows:
Start over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
1. Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
2. Open the library package like this.
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3. Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
4. Drag the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
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This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects. Your original library will remain intact for further attempts at fixes is so desired.
OT

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