Ok, I did a little poking at it. Basically, with Process 2012 selected, if you click the Auto button in the Basic panel "Exposure" area on a photo which has more than 5-10% of the image area at or beyond the white saturation point, Lr4 will do its best to pull the exposure down so that the whites and highlights are below the saturation threshold. On any more average scene, it will render exposure that is quite close to on the mark.
Tapping the J key in the Develop module will turn on the white and black saturation clipping indicators ... that will show you whether Auto is useful for that scene. G On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 9, 2012, at 13:50, Tim Bray wrote: > >> Just been using it for a couple days, but the new 2012 process, uh... >> makes my pictures look better. > > I've been struggling with one issue - sometimes I'll hit the "auto" button in > the TONE box to get my exposure into the ballpark before fiddling. > > With LR3 it was always pretty darned close. > > With LR4 I get consistently at least a couple of stops too dark - like the > only thing it's doing is throwing the entire exposure to the left to preserve > the highlights. > > Anyone else see that when they hit that "auto" button? > > -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. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
