photographers-lightroom help?

[rachaelmary]

Any of the f14 photographers use lightroom?  carissalynp? avswolf?

I'm stressing out a bit.  Im going through my photos and they are all changing to black and white on their own and i don't know how to stop them.  The only way it stops is if i have the program minimized.  There are 3k photos in this one folder i'm going through…i don't want to have to re edit them all! bah.  halp.

[carissalynp]

I use Lightroom. does this happen in the develop module? If you're in develop, and you look at the history (bottom left) what does it show? Does it happen when they're imported? Or they import ok and it happens sometime later?

[rachaelmary]

they've been imported for a year…they are all photos of LO that i'm going through. I was picking ones to print and i noticed they were all changing to b&w. The history says the last thing is "convert to black and white" but i didn't do that...

[rachaelmary]

oh and it does it in the library or develop module…doesn't matter which one, just keeps changing to b&w!

[carissalynp]

So if you go into the develop module for a picture it's ok? Or what exact point do you notice it? Sounds like it's somehow set to automatically apply a preset.

[rachaelmary]

if i'm looking at the photos in grid view, i see them one by one changing to black and white. They don't do it unless the photos are on my screen and i can see them (i.e., if i scroll down they haven't changed yet, only change when i can see them). When i'm in the develop module, and i go to settings, the "Convert to black and white" has a check mark…and i unchecked it, but it keeps checking again and continuing to change them. they change whether I'm in the develop or the library module...

[rachaelmary]

is there a way to do a batch uncheck of that convert to black and white bottom? i don't know why it's checked…but it's going to convert all 3k photos unless i can batch uncheck it…so far i can only do one photo at a time...

eta-i know how to highlight a batch of them, but it only unchecks one photo at a time.

[carissalynp]

Ok, so when you're in the library, if you look at quick develop on the right, is there a preset selected? Or if you open the import dialogue and look at "apply during import" on the right is there one selected?

[carissalynp]

Uh, I think you can batch it but I can't remember how offhand, one sec let me try..

[carissalynp]

Ok try this. Uncheck it on one of them. Then select a bunch including the one you unchecked it on. Click on "sync" on the bottom right. In the pop up uncheck everything except color treatment and color (and the ones under color). that seems to undo it on all of them.

[rachaelmary]

I was thinking that…but will it erase all the edits i had already done? When i uncheck the convert to b&w it goes back to the original edit i did…i'm worried doing the sync will get rid of that.

[rachaelmary]

oh and also, not all of them have converted yet…they are only converted if i can see them on my screen. I don't think syncing will uncheck the button to prevent them from changing

[carissalynp]

Jan 23, 2015 22:15:47 GMT -5 rachaelmary said:

I was thinking that…but will it erase all the edits i had already done? When i uncheck the convert to b&w it goes back to the original edit i did…i'm worried doing the sync will get rid of that.

If you uncheck all the other options it should *only* sync the color. You can test it on one maybe? I can't figure out how it'd be setting that preset! Can you ask in the adobe forums? I bet someone knows.

[carissalynp]

Jan 23, 2015 22:17:58 GMT -5 rachaelmary said:

oh and also, not all of them have converted yet…they are only converted if i can see them on my screen. I don't think syncing will uncheck the button to prevent them from changing

Yeah it seems like it applies it as it loads them? When it initially shows you a preview it shows you a low res jpg your camera saves, then when you scroll to see them it loads the actual file (jpg or raw, whichever you shot in). But I can't figure out how to do a preset on load? Unless it did actually do it on import and you don't see that because it doesn't convert the low res preview?

[rachaelmary]

on the library screen under quick develop, do i want custom or default? some of custom and some are default...

[rachaelmary]

I FIXED IT!!!

Thank you for your help!! it was the default setting…they were changed to custom. phew.

[carissalynp]

Yay! I'm glad, that must've been annoying.