Can Lightroom automatically create virtual copies when adding photos to a collection?

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In Lightroom, you can choose to create virtual copies for all photos when first creating a collection. But if you add more photos to that collection later, is there any way to have Lightroom automatically make virtual copies as you drag or add those photos into the collection, instead of creating the copies manually first?

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user9646 · Accepted Answer

There is no way to make Lightroom 4 automatically create a virtual copy when dragging an image into a collection. However when virtual copies are created they are automatically selected (with any number of images selected), so the quickest way to get virtual copies into the collection would be to select the source images, use Ctrl + ' or Cmd + ' (as appropriate for your OS) to create the virtual copies and then drag them into the collection, which when I tried it was very nearly as fast as simply dragging images into the collection.

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13y ago

Can Lightroom automatically create virtual copies when adding photos to a collection?

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