- So I know that last tip was a little bit advanced
but I did want to point it out
whether you are a beginner user or an advanced user.
This next tip has to do with while we are editing
and it has to do with the history states.
So let me show you how that can massively bog down
the performance of your Lightroom.
Let me go ahead and take this image
into our developed module
by selecting the image and hitting D on my keyboard.
This next tip that I have for you
has to do with the history states.
So whenever you've made multiple modifications to an image,
they are actually all stored, step by step,
in your history states over here.
Now, what does this mean?
This means that you're going to be able to see
every different change that you have made to an image.
And while this can be helpful in some situations,
it can also bog down significantly
the amount of memory that Lightroom devotes
to doing the work that you're trying to do.
So what you can do is
you can easily clear all of your history states
by just hitting the X symbol,
right here at the top of your history window.
Now that is not going to flatten your image
because remember,
Lightroom is a non-destructive editing program.
It's just going to get rid of the memory
of what you did when.
You can always go ahead and come over to your sliders,
over here on the right,
and you can take those back to zero
which is going to reset your image to its original state.