Copy and paste edit steps

[Joachim Jundt]

I just tried to copy all edit steps I did to one image and paste it into the other. Is there really no other way than using the menu when the source image in the edit window and then go to the thumbnail view and paste it using the context menu? Because the menu entries “Änderungen einfügen” and “Besondere einfügen…” are greyed out. I’m sorry to say so, but I expect the possibility to paste edit steps when I’m working on the target image as the source image usually is a starting point.

And while we’re at it: consistency is key in menu texts! Decide for Bearbeitungsschritte or Änderungen but don’t use both for the same subject!

I suggest a change in translations

Bearbeitungsschritte kopieren
Besondere kopieren… > Einzelne Schritte kopieren
Anderungen einfügen > Bearbeitungsschritte einfügen
Besondere einfügen… > Einzelne Schritte einfügen
Letzte Bearbeitung einfügen

To me, this would be easier to understand and less needy for interpretation work like “what could be meant by this?”

[Joachim Jundt]

Why is “editing” the original post impossible?

I just found a bug: When I’m in the “show thumbails” mode and I click on the edit button in top right side bar, the pasted edit changes go back to default. Edits are gone at least the pated ones. Copy and paste edits is an important part in my workflow. I don’t appreciate if an app sabotages the pasted edits.

[Stephan Hartmann]

You can use the copy and paste icons just below the adjustment panel. That’s how I do it.

[Nik Bhatt]

Correct – when editing an image, please use the buttons next to the Reset button at the bottom of the edit pane. They are Copy Adjustments, Paste Adjustments, and Show Original.

I’ll make a note of your suggestions for localization changes.

As far as the pasted edits being lost, I am not able to reproduce this problem. Can you detail it more please?

[Joachim Jundt]

Nik, why can I copy the settings in the menu, but cannot paste it into another image in the same menu? Why can the extra buttons do more/better than a menu entry? Next to it, after being in the menu I tried to hover the mouse over these buttons to get an help text. I was not sure whether these would copy/paste the image or it’s settings as the icons indicate “copy file” to me. The help text didn’t show up then. Of course, located at the bottom of the edit tools list should already give a hint, but at that moment to me the icons were not part of the edit possibilities but maybe something else.

Now that I learnt about the icons, I can only recommend: If there’s the same functionality of those icons in the menu, I should be able to use the menu or the icons, else it gets confusing. In future I will prefer the icons.

As for reproduction of the bug I definitely lack the terminology you use for different views. There was a view without any sidebar buttons, only the thumbnails strip and one image ready to edit.
I first used the context menu to copy settings from one edited image to another.
Pencil icon appeared.
After a while I found the button Show sidebar, this brought back the “edit” icon.
Clicking on it, I saw some sliders moving back to their defaults.
Just tried to do again but I didn’t find any view composition with thumbnails and without the toolbars on the side of the main window.

[Nik Bhatt]

The app has to work differently when you are in edit mode vs. not in edit mode. That’s because you have a live editing session vs. stored editing data. The code to copy and paste is different in those cases. I plan to make the menus and buttons (and contextual menus) more consistent with each other to the extent that is possible / practical.

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