On 11 Sep 2014, at 22:37, "Eric Weir" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just used LR’s Auto Tone, under Library in the Quick Develop module, for > the first time. Liked the results I got so much I started synchronizing them > across groups of images shot under similar conditions. Am I cheating? > > When I look at the details of what was done in Develop mode I see that many > small adjustments have been made. What I don’t like is that I’m not learning > to make these adjustments my. In most cases I don’t even have any idea what > the qualities changed are. >
Autotone is useful - it can rescue bad exposures - but it can also completely blitz any sort of nice light or shadow, eg 'golden hour' stuff, and just average everything if you're a bit overenthusiastic with it. i like to see what it can do, but for semi-automatic processing I think the presets Medium Contrast Curve, Sharpen (face or scenic) and Punch do a pretty good job, and you can twiddle with curves and colour temp to fine tune a bit. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
