On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:39, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> No, when you are done processing your RAW image, everything is automatically >> saved. There's no save button to click. But also remember that with >> Lightroom, if you come back to a RAW image, and don't like what you've done, >> just click the reset button and it will go back to the original RAW image. >> You can do this as many times as you want. > > Thanks, Christine. Good news -- on both counts. >
You can also make a "virtual copy" (or MULTIPLE virtual copies) of a particularly-tricky image, and then go about it with any number of different methods on each copy. I do this when I want to edit some square-cropped images to put on my phone. Or if I want to experiment with a B&W copy of a particular image. For quick 'n' dirty "let's see what the automatic settings do" editing, on the Mac it's CMD-U to set the brightness levels automatically, and CMD-SHIFT-U to set the "tone". I find the auto settings tend to do a few things other than what I prefer: the black level gets set too dark for too much of the image, and the tone tends to get set colder than what I like. BUT - if you have NO idea where to start with an image, sometimes you can get a little closer to where you want to be with the auto settings. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
