Lightroom - same develop setting to multiple images

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I had the task of taking my daughter and a dozen of her friends out to the park to take pictures for their year book. I took a few hundred shots in total (taking 4-5 images of each picture). Rather than using aperture priority I left the camera on full manual and I have ended up forgetting a setting or not adjusting the exposure between shots on a number of pictures. I have managed to fix most of the problems but there were a number of times when there were maybe 10 pictures that all needed the same changes. I tried selecting the 10 pictures in the library then clicking on develop. If I then made a change I found that only one of the pictures changed the way that I wanted.

How can I select 10 pictures and just do a change to all of them at the same time (for example change exposure, white balance, fill light, blacks etc). I don't want to record this as a macro or similar because I would only want to do this to these 10 pictures then not do the same changes again to others. Something like an option to apply the last change again to a different picture would also be useful.
 
Thanks, if I follow what I think you are telling me then this allows me to copy the setting from ONE picture another ONE picture. It works a treat!

Is there a way to do this to a batch of maybe 10 pictures?
 
yes, copy settings from the good picture
go to library, select the range of pictures by holding down shift (or ctrl)
then paste the settings and it should paste the settings to all selected pictures
 
andrewc said:
yes, copy settings from the good picture
go to library, select the range of pictures by holding down shift (or ctrl)
then paste the settings and it should paste the settings to all selected pictures
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Thats it thanks. Wish I had posted this question before I had individually messed with 50 pictures! In fact if I could go back in time I would have changed to aperture priority and not had the problem!
 
In develop apply the changes you want to the first image.

Now highlight all the additional images you want to change, keeping the first image highlighted as well.

At the bottom of the develop tabs there is a tab that says "SYNC" Click on this and choose from the options what you want to , Exposure , white balance etc. Now press the synchronize button and the settings from the first image are transfered to the others highlighted
 
I would have suggested what Chappers said, but the other way sounds interesting too, will give that a shot later!
 
Nice one Chappers, I didn't know that method.

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Andrew

All the sync command is doing is effectively copying and pasting the develop settings to the selected images, from the "control", or as Adobe call it "The Most Selected". You'll see that the "Most Selected" has a brighter highlight around it.

Once you've run the the sync command nothing else happens even if you make adjustments to the "Most Selected" image, even with the other images highlighted. You need to run the sync command again for any changes to have an effect on the other images. De selecting the images ( Control D) breaks the link anyway.
 
I am really glad I posted this question, some really useful answers here. Thanks a lot.
 
I use the copy and paste settings feature a lot in rawshooter. guessed it would follow through to Lightroom but nice to have it confirmed. Thinking it won't be too long before I have to get around to buying lightroom.
 
'Synchronise' is also in ACR... Darned handy it is too!
 
andrewc said:
SYNC suggests that all these images are synchronised to each other, and a change to one would get made to the others? Does this happen?
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It's an option. Hold down control and you'll see the Sync button change to Autosync. If you then click it any changes to the current image will also happen to all other selected images. Click on the sync button again to exit this mode.
 
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