Here's a feature request then: Spot-Meter for the Auto. Like the WB eye-dropper.
Is there a FR form? On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
