Guys, here is something i dont get. Ive begun to edit a pic using LR and as expected the history tab is filling up.
I close LR and open it back a different day, i continue to make edits to the pic, the history tab continues to populate even more. Suppose i want to delete a few of those edits and leave the pic with only the latest 5 edits in history because they are the ones that look ok to me. What do i do? How do i keep only the changes i want to and not the whole bunch that i have done?
The history is linear, so one builds on top of the other, so to speak. Sort of like a list of un-dos. And it records each change, so that if you changed exposure five times, each is recorded. So it's rather hard just to go back to say +.33, since that might be number 3. Better to just look at the steps and go, "oh, .33 was best" and do that as a new step. Not only that, but the order you make adjustments can affect the ultimate image. For example, you might have denoised, but then you decide to bring up shadows, and oops, now more denoising is needed. The order can affect performance too.
Going forward, better with a long session of edits to do them in some order that makes sense to you, and use either snapshots you can go back to, or forking. The latter is done by say making a virtual copy at some point. Like say after lighting adjustments, then make a VC to use for BW, while using the original for color. Each then has a separate history going forward. In your case, another thing to do might be to make a VC and reset it. Then go to say your last adjustment, and use copy to copy just that last adjustment, or maybe the last five. It's bit more general, but might work depending on the adjustments.