Copy & Paste Settings

When one photo looks right and the rest of the series should match, copy its settings and paste them onto the others.

The basic flow

Select the photo with the look you want.
Press Ctrl+C (or click Copy Settings in the bottom bar).
Select one or many target photos in the library or filmstrip.
Press Ctrl+V (or Paste Settings, or right-click → Paste Adjustments to N Images).

In the library, the photo that is copied is the one that is active (outlined), even when several are selected. The copied settings stay available while RapidRAW is open, also when you switch folders.

Ratings, flags, labels and tags are never copied.

Choosing what gets pasted

Click the gear (Copy & Paste Settings) in the bottom bar.

Paste Mode

Mode	What happens
Merge (default)	Only settings that were actually changed on the source are pasted. Everything else on the target stays.
Replace	All included settings are pasted, even the ones at their default value. Those settings on the target are reset to match the source exactly.

Example: you set a vignette and grain on one photo and want to add them to 30 photos that already have individual exposure edits. Use Merge: their exposures stay. If instead every photo of a studio session should look exactly the same, use Replace.

Settings you switched off below are never touched, in either mode.

Included Adjustments

Switch groups on or off. Select All and Select None help.

Section	Groups
Basic	Tone Mapper, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Brightness, Curves
Color	White Balance, Presence, Global Hue Shift, Color Grading, Color Mixer, Color Calibration
Details	Clarity & Dehaze (with Structure and Centré), Sharpness, Noise Reduction, AI Denoise, Chromatic Aberration, Negative Conversion
Effects	Vignette, Grain, Halation & Glow (with Light Flares), LUT, Lens Blur, Fog, Relight
Geometry	Crop & Aspect Ratio, Transform & Rotation, Lens Correction, Guided Perspective
Masks	Masks

By default Geometry and Masks are off, because crops and masks rarely fit a different photo. Turn them on when your photos are framed the same way, for example tripod shots or product photos. AI masks are recalculated for each target photo automatically.

Tip: to paste only the white balance onto a series, click Select None, turn on White Balance and paste.

Auto-sync

Turn on Enable auto-sync and every change you make is applied to all selected photos at the same time, live. Select a series, enable auto-sync, and edit the active photo: all others follow. Only the included groups are synced.

Remember to turn it off afterwards, otherwise later edits on a multi-selection keep syncing.

Copying one section

Right-click a section header in the Adjustments panel (for example Color) and choose Copy Color Settings, then on another photo Paste Color Settings. This works independently of the copy & paste settings above. The same works inside masks.

Copy & paste or preset?

Use copy & paste when...	Use a preset when...
The look belongs to this shoot	You'll use the look again and again
You want crops or masks to carry over	You want a named, organized look
It's quick and one-off	You want to share it