Lightroom How To Apply Settings To Multiple Photos

Batch Editing in Lightroom

One of the greatest things about using Lightroom to edit is the power to apply the aforementioned settings from one photo to several others photos with the same lighting and exposure!  This means that you can rapidly and efficiently edit a session with only the click of a push.

This tutorial covers batch editing in the Lightroom desktop version.  For data on batch editing in Lightroom Mobile, click here.

How to Apply Edits to Multiple Photos

One time y'all have a photo edited just the way yous like, you lot can add together those aforementioned edits to other images from your session that take the aforementioned lighting and exposure.

1. Highlight the image that you lot just finished editing.

2. Control/Command + Click on any other images to which you lot want to apply these same settings.

3. With multiple photos selected, choose Settings>Sync Settings from your menus.  Only like all Adobe programs, at that place are diverse ways to exercise this.  You could also click the Sync push in the lower correct of Lightroom or employ the following keyboard shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+C.

4. Brand sure the settings y'all want to sync are checked.  I typically don't sync masks, cropping, or spot removal since these edits are specific to each paradigm.  Sometimes, I won't sync the radial or linear gradient - that pick depends on the photo.

5. Printing Synchronize!  The changes should at present be practical to all the photos you selected.

Making Adjustments Afterwards Syncing Lightroom Settings

Once you lot accept applied your edits to a photo, you can notwithstanding modify anything you applied.  If you choose to sync any of the masks to multiple images, you may need to arrange them slightly to match upwards with the private photo.  Just click on the Masks tool in the toolbar (circle with dotted outline), and a list of the masks applied to your image will appear in a new panel.  Select the one you desire to suit, and and so use the handles or pins on your epitome to conform the masks.

If you practical a crop to multiple images, you tin can adapt the crop to fit the paradigm better.

Don't overlook batch editing in Lightroom!  It is a HUGE fourth dimension-saving tool!

Amy shared some fantastic tips about Lightroom batch processing in this video.  Sentry her batch edit photos from a session to see these tools in activeness!

Batch Editing Video Tutorial

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Gayle Vehar

Lightroom Teacher

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