Is there a way to send 4 out of 44 images from Library to Develop? Easily????

Question

I think my subject line says it all.
I expect that if I've selected 4 images and then I go to Develop, I will see and be working with those 4 images. Only. Is there a way to do this?
Kittie

Answer 1

A virtual copy is just another develop recipe for the same original photo.
Think of Lightroom as a recipe book.
When you edit a photo, you are not actually editing the photo, you are
creating a recipe to use on the photo, for when you decide to 'cook' the
photo by exporting it.
Your original photo never gets touched, a recipe is applied and a new
photo is created when you export it.
By creating virtual photos, you are just creating new pages of recipes
for the same original photo, so you can cook it differently later.
So suppose you have a photo of a couple of people walking down the road.
You could create a recipe (virtual copy) for the whole photo, and a
recipe for a Black and white version, and a recipe for a cropped closeup
of the couple. You are not creating new photos, you are creating new
develop setting for the same photo.
The catalog keeps your recipes organized, and you can go back to them
and 'cook' (export) the photos any time you want, without having to save
great big multiple copies of the same photo. A recipe is only about 10k
in size... your raw is more like 10 Meg in size.
One photo, multiple versions without basically using any more space.