How To Copy Settings To Multiple Photos In Lightroom

Existence able to edit multiple images really quickly is one of my favorite things about working in Lightroom — it was born to practise this stuff (referred to as "batch editing" in Lightroom lingo). There are a few days ways to do it, so today, we'll embrace some of the nearly popular (and easiest) ways to exercise it.

Auto Sync (LR Classic But)

This is my favorite, go-to, apply-information technology-every-solar day style of multi-photo editing. First, make sure Auto-Sync is turned on (the Auto-Sync push button in the Develop Module at the bottom of the Right Side panels, but you won't see it until you lot select more one photo, so hold the Command key on Mac (the Ctrl-central on Windows) and click on 2 more than images downwardly in the Filmstrip at the bottom then the Sync / Auto-sync push button will announced. To plough on Auto-Sync (if it'due south not already on), click once on the little toggle switch to the left of the word "Sync."

Notation: Auto Sync is non a feature of Lightroom "Cloud" version. Information technology'due south only in Lightroom Classic.

Once you have multiple photos selected, any you do to the photograph you have selected (known every bit the "most-selected" photo), gets automatically applied to all the other selected images in real-fourth dimension.

Above: Here's Auto Sync in action. I changed the Colour Treatment to Black and White (past pressing the alphabetic character "v" on my keyboard), and at present not just is this epitome changed to blackness and white, the other nine images all automatically switch to black and white every bit well. In add-on, you encounter a bulletin appear on screen to let you know what just happened (look correct above the filmstrip where it says "Handling updated for ten images."). When you're done editing, don't forget to Deselect your images by pressing Command-D on Mac or Ctrl-D on Windows.

Sync (LR Classic Only)

This is Car Sync's more powerful cousin, and so information technology'due south similar simply unlike. To turn on "Sync," hit the toggle push button to the firsthand left of the Auto Sync button. Here'southward how information technology works: Select a agglomeration of images and and so make all the changes you lot want to your selected image. The changes you make to this paradigm DO Not affect the other selected photos. Now hit the Sync push, and it brings upward the Synchronize Settings window you run into beneath.

Past default it assumes you want everything yous did to that first photo applied to the other selected photos, and that may be exactly what you want, and in which case y'all just striking the Synchronize button and you're done. However, if you merely desire certain things you did practical to these other images, you can "uncheck" any edits you lot don't want sync'd to these other images in this window.

That'southward a LOT of checkboxes to uncheck, so if you want to just sync a few edits over, it helps to click the "Check None" button (as shown above), and so just check the few things you do want sync'd to those other images.

Re-create / Paste Settings (Both LR Classic & LR 'Deject')

This is actually very similar to Sync, just yous don't have to select a agglomeration of photos first. Y'all can click on one photo; copy the edits you made to that detail photograph, then paste those settings from the first photo onto any other photograph. You're literally copying and pasting edits. However, similar Sync it brings up a window asking which settings you want to cull (or of grade, you can paste all of them).

Hither'south how it works: Click on a photograph. Either click on the Re-create button at the bottom of the Left side panels (every bit shown here), just information technology's quicker to simply press Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C) to bring up the Copy Settings window (seen beneath).

TIP: If you lot want to bypass this Re-create Settings window altogether, just concur the Option central (PC: Alt-key) and click the Copy button (shown to a higher place) and it copies all the settings from your selected photograph.

Choose which settings yous want to re-create from this window (or don't exercise anything to copy all of the settings), click on another photo down in the Filmstrip (or even select a agglomeration of photos), and pressCommand-5 (PC:Ctrl-5) to paste those settings onto those selected images.

Annotation: If you lot're using Lightroom 'cloud' on the Desktop, y'all can press justCommand-C to copy andCommand-5 to Paste and skip bringing up the "Copy Settings" window at all. It's a simple "re-create and paste settings" routine. If you do want to bring upwardly the Re-create Settings window and choose which edits you desire to re-create, then y'all'd printingShift-Command-C (PC: Shift-Ctrl-C) instead.

That's a practiced start on editing multiple images in Lightroom. Hope y'all found that helpful. 🙂

Here'southward to what could well be an incredibly awesome calendar week! 🙂

-Scott