- Now, that we've learned all of these incredible
powerful tools that are at our fingertips
in Lightroom when it comes to
selective adjustments,
wouldn't it be incredible
if we could take the work that we've done
on one image and apply it to a bunch of others?
Yes.
It's possible.
Let me show you how.
So we're coming back to the image
of this beautiful actress
that we were able to modify the color
of the shirt and the color of the jacket on
but we also have this secondary image
that she also chose
that she would like to have retouched as well
or delivered as the client.
So what if it was possible
to take the modifications that we made
on this image.
So the masking modifications, right?
We modified the jacket and we modified the shirt.
Okay?
So those two modifications.
Would it be possible
to take those two modifications,
and place them on another image
with different locations of those items,
and a bunch of different masks as well?
Let's see.
We're going to start with our first image
where we have the modifications
for the jacket and the shirt.
We're going to hold down shift,
and select the second image.
It's kind of hard to see that
so I'm going to just open that up.
And then right down here, I'm going to choose sync.
Now, you may have all
of your check boxes selected.
You may have them all checked.
You can check none.
We don't want to sync everything, right?
We just want to sync a couple of things.
So the things that we want to change
are actually right here in the masking section.
We want to actually sync just the masking
of the shirt mask and the jacket mask.
Now, this is where naming your masks
is going to become very important
because you immediately
know what jacket is and what shirt is.
If you had like mask three, mask six, mask eight,
you wouldn't necessarily know what
those things are,
and whether or not you wanted to sync them
between images.
So we'll go ahead and choose synchronize,
and it gives us a warning.
It says, "Are you sure you want to continue?
If the images contain masks,
they may be merged
or replaced with copied masks."
And that's because most people
aren't naming their masks appropriately.
And so if you have a mask three
on the first image,
and you have a mask three on the second image,
it's going to replace the mask three
on the second image
with the mask three from the first image.
So we don't want to do that.
We want to choose merge.
Okay?
And so let's go ahead and choose merge,
and we'll click over to our second image.
And there we go.
We were able to take the modifications
from the masks in the first image.
And we were able to place them
on the second image with almost zero work.
And look here at the top of all of our masks
that we did all the facial retouching on,
you can see that we have jacket and shirt,
and those were the ones that were synced
from the original image.