Image edits don't save???

Hello,
I am developing images in lightroom, but when I view the images using a differnt image viewer, my enhancements do not appear. What am i missing?
Thanks, Jordan

This is a a complex issue, David, and unfortunately it's not as simple as that. Monitors don't display images the same way, and while there are ways to handle that within imaging sofware like LR, most web browsers (other than Safari) are not color-managed nor do most users have accurately calibrated monitors.
The short version is that if you have a calibrated monitor (using a Spyder or some other hardware device), and you export to sRGB color space, you've done pretty much all you can do.
Read this for more details:
http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1/

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My experience with the trial version of lightroom is very positive in terms of the convenient and powerful capabilities for editing images and the associated metadata. But I can't find a way to save the "develop" edits to images into the source file for the photo I am working with. So far, I am able to save the metadata into the file but not the image editing. From what I read, I fear this is not possible without silly round about exporting to new files then copying / moving multiple copies around, etc. Without this ability, I am pretty sure I will not purchase lightroom and will miss out on all the powerful features. Without an OPTION that turns on the equivalent of a SAVE button, managing my photos collection would be a nightmare.
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I had the same requirement to save in JPEGs files all non-metadata edits performed in Lightroom, in order to share modified pictures without duplicating files. By the way, I think it’s going to be more and more required by casual Lightroom users, as people get used to instant photo sharing in many situations where quantity matters more than quality
Here’s a nearly automatic (at least, scalable) solution that works, although it slightly lowers the quality by re-compressing the original pictures.
Once for all:
Download and install the wonderful Lightroom plugin “jf Run Any Command”, provided as donationware by Jeffrey Friedl here: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/run-any-command. This “export filter” plugin allows you to run a command of your choice with each exported file, as part of the export while it’s going on. (You may also browse Jeffrey’s blog to find many other useful and beautiful things.)
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Export to the hard drive, to the original picture folder, without adding the exported file to the catalog
Name the exported file “EXPORTED-{Filename}” (or anything different from the original file name)
JPEG format, 76% quality (see An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings at http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/jpeg-quality)
Keep all metadata
Here’s the interesting part, the Run Any Command settings:
Command to execute for each exported picture: copy "{FILE}" "{Path}\{LIBRARYFILENAME}" (this replaces the original file with a copy of the exported file)
Command to execute upon export completion: del {FILES} (this deletes all exported files).
NB: One could wonder why not directly export with the original file name and silently replace the original files (I believe Lightroom would allow this). It’s just a matter of error handling: in case the export goes wrong, no original file is changed at all.
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While the entire set of "saved" pictures is still selected, in the Develop module switch Autosync on and click Reinit to erase all modification specifications from the catalog for all pictures, then press CTRL-S to write down to disk any metadata updated by Lightroom -and accept if required to confirm that Lightroom values should replace externally set values.
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My version of LR-5.7 (OS X 10.8.5) apparently does not save the .NEF (Nikon RAW) edits done in the basic module. That means that I can correct exposure, highlights, shadows etc. but once I go to another picture and returned to the edited one the histogram (on the edited photo) and specifically the clipping triangles are white or some other color. This is normally suppose to indicate that some channel or all channels are clipped in the highlight/shadow areas. If I adjust any slider in the Basic panel even as little as one +/- value or press the J-key, the histogram will now show the original edit. Moving on to another photo and then returning to to previously edited one and again the edits are "not saved" and I have to hit the J-key or adjust a slider to see the previously edited information reflected in the histogram.
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Happy New Year!
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The following screenshots demonstrate the issue with only Highlights & Shadows controls applied as shown.
The Highlights & Shadows controls set just to the threshold of extinguishing the clipping indicators.
Moving the Shadows control toward negative causes the Shadow clipping indicator to come ON (as expected), but at-13 it goes OFF again!
Moving the Shadows control further negative causes the Shadows clipping indicator to come back ON at -33.
This is probably normal behavior for the PV2012 Image Adaptive Tone controls as they were not designed to be used way (- - or ++ Highlights & Shadows). The PV2012 Tone controls all interact with each other, which is why it is suggested to adjust them from the Top down starting with Exposure. For most images using -Highlights and +Shadows of near equal value produces good results.
I still can't duplicate the change in clipping indicators after selecting another image, so it may be unique to certain camera models and/or lighting conditions.
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Try one of the image files that exhibits this issue using the following PV2102 Tone control adjustment procedure:
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In either case this is not the same image file as the one opened in Lr, so it will have to be imported into Lr to show up. If you would flatten your image after editing in PS and then do a <save> to your JPG - not a <save as> - it will show up in Lr.
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Message was edited by: web-weaver; PS added

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The question posted by me has not been answered and I am pulling my hair out trying to have my Lightroom/CS4 image processing work flow that has worked for nearly 2years back to normal.
I might as well not have lightroom as opening a lightroom 3.3 edited image in CS4 removes all of the editing done in lightroom. This appears to be true since I upgraded to v 3.3. As one person who posted in another theme suggested I tried saving a Tiff of the lightroom changes which I did via Nik Efex (I do not know how to save a raw file as a Tiff in LR as I don't do it as part of my normal workflow) but it reverted to the totally unedited version of the raw file when it opened in CS4.
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Please can someone help me with this.
I look at my RAW images in Organiser and then I use the EDIT tap to move to the RAW IMAGE edit section with the image I want to edit.
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2013ALAM wrote:
Please can someone help me with this.
I look at my RAW images in Organiser and then I use the EDIT tap to move to the RAW IMAGE edit section with the image I want to edit.
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Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
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To be sure I understand your workflow, I'll put it in my own words...
- You select a raw file in the Organizer, and you choose to edit it in full edit/expert mode (that depends on the PSE version).
- The file opens in the specific dialog panel of ACR, with its typical sliders
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If so, in the bar just under the tabs, you have a menu on the right (4 bars icon). You just set the choice to camera raw defaults, and you are shown the original raw image without your edits. Note that if you choose 'Shift + Open', you open a new copy without changing the previous settings saved in the xmp sidecar file.

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Noel Carboni wrote:
Generally speaking, saving as a JPEG causes a lossy compression of the data. So as a rule, any save of a JPEG file results in degradation.
If you talk about Photoshop only, then yes. But "generally speaking": no, this is not universally true.
There are a number of modifications that CAN be done losslessly on a JPEG file (i.e. without decompressing and recompressing the data, thereby preventing a reduction of image quality due to generation loss):
rotating (lossless)
flipping (lossless)
cropping (lossless)
canvas enlarging, i.e. adding a frame (lossless)
grayscaling (lossless except for the [intended] loss of chroma information, i.e. the operation does not add jpeg compression artefacts and thus is equal to converting a color image to a grayscale image in lossless format, such as png)
editing (lossless re-saving of entire jpg image except modified MCU blocks. This comes in handy e.g. for red-eye reduction!)
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Many programs are capable of lossless rotating and flipping of jpeg files, whereas the other lossless operations are less frequently found.
Photoshop is NOT capable of any of the above lossless operations.
modifications which do not change image pixels:
optimizing the Huffman tables of a JPEG file to increase compression (lossless)
converting between progressive and non-progressive JPEG format (lossless)
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lossless editing (e.g. adding of text):
1) original JPEG image
2) edited + losslessly resaved JPEG image
3) comparison
white: identical pixels
black: different pixels
lossy editing in Photoshop (e.g. adding fo text):
1) original JPEG image
2) edited + saved in Photoshop
(JPEG, max. quality 12)
3) comparison
white: identical pixels
black: different pixels

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In an eMail message, when I attempt to save two photos by clicking the 'Save 2 Images' link, not the 'Save Image' link, the images are not saved. (I use I I apologize for the late notice, butOS7 on IPhone5). Is this feature broken?

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