FR-DEV-7 asks for the current edit against the unedited original and nothing
implemented it. What the develop view had was history navigation, which
*changes* the edit rather than previewing against it — so the only way to
look was to undo, look, and redo, and that puts two real steps on the stack
at exactly the moment a photographer suspects they have overcooked a frame
and is least sure of what they are doing.
Holding the "Before" button, or backslash, renders the graph with every
adjustment stripped and hands it straight back afterwards: the same
suspend-render-restore shape the crop overlay already uses to show an
uncropped frame and an export uses to suspend the zoom. Nothing is recorded,
no rows are re-synced, and the photograph is still modified when the key
comes up — the panel goes on describing the edit the photographer has,
because only the canvas is answering a question.
The framing deliberately stays on. A held comparison is a question about
tone and colour, and re-cropping the canvas under someone's thumb would move
the detail they are comparing; worse, the zoom is a rectangle of the *framed*
image, so dropping the crop at 4× would quietly show a different part of the
photograph rather than the same part unedited. What the crop took away is
already compared in Compose, which shows the whole frame.
Not a split screen: that halves the working image on the tablet this column
was sized for, and the comparison photographers describe making is a flick
back and forth rather than two pictures side by side. Press-and-hold is one
gesture on a finger and on a mouse, which is what FR-DEV-3b's mapping wants,
and it has no mode to be stranded in — the button reports both edges, so a
press the system cancels puts the original down too.
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