Hello all. I have noticed with the new LR that the auto develop setting during import adds clarity, vibrance, and saturation. Seems to me it didn't do that before? Is there an auto develop setting that does only the basic tones?
It’s a new feature update which many of us find better. It’s based on machine learning and huge data samples from professional photographers. On import I find it provides quite a good starting point.
No there isn’t. You can of course create your own import preset which would set the same values for all photos but based on the slider settings you prefer.
You can hold down the shift key and double click on any slider name e.g. exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, saturation and vibrancy. That will give an auto setting for the chosen sliders, but it’s a manual operation.
Before the change, I would generally double click to zero the highlights, and shadows. Then adjust exposure, whites, and blacks. I don't like how clarity darkens the image and prefer to use either darks or whites to adjust the richness of the colors. Sometimes I may use vibrancy (or contrast), but that can often be accomplished with whites and blacks more naturally.
I wonder if I should put in a feature request for basic auto.
I don't like how clarity darkens the image and prefer to use either darks or whites to adjust the richness of the colors.
Are you sure that the new Auto is applying Clarity? I've never seen it do that, so I wonder is perhaps you've got something else going on there, maybe default develop settings have been changed to include Clarity?
Sorry Jim. It doesn't. I just assumed that since it adjusted the "presence" section it did that to. It just does vibrance and saturation. Thanks Jon, will submit an idea.
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