How do I rotate or apply the same edit to multiple photos in Lightroom 3?
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In Lightroom 3, selecting multiple photos in Develop still seems to apply an edit only to the active image. Is that normal? What's the correct way to rotate several photos at once, and can other Develop adjustments be copied to multiple selected images too?
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When you are in the Library module, you can select multiple photos and apply rotation to all of them at once.
When you move into the Develop module, you are only working with one image. But after you have made changes, you can click on the Synch button. This will give you checkboxes of all the settings you can copy (exposure, etc). Select those you want, click OK, and it will aply them to all the other images.
This is the LR 4 version of the synch settings. I assume LR3 is similar.
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Yes—this is normal behavior. In Lightroom, the Develop module works on the active photo. To apply Develop adjustments to other selected images, make your edit on one photo, then use the Sync button to copy chosen settings to the rest.
For rotation specifically, do it in the Library module. Select all the photos you want to rotate, then use the rotate command (for example via right-click > Rotate Right/Left) and Lightroom will apply it to the whole selection.
So the short version is:
- Rotate multiple photos: use Library, not Develop.
- Copy Develop edits to multiple photos: edit one image in Develop, then use Sync to apply selected settings to the others.
That means it’s not a bug—just how Lightroom separates Library batch actions from Develop editing.
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