“Auto-Toning” with PV2012 is a perplexing dilemma.
According to Eric Chan, “Auto-Toning” addresses “Basic” Tone sliders from the “Top-down”. This takes full advantage of PV2012 enhanced “adaptive” processing (Jeff Schewe/Tom Knoll). There is no questioning the superior image quality of PV2012, however, using “Auto-Tone” produces inconsistent results. The inconsistencies are hard to predict but on the whole, “Auto-Toning” of the older PV2010 produces better results. Read more…
Upon downloading and installing Lightroom 4 beta, Adobe provides assurances that the installation will not affect any of your existing catalogs. Then, they continue with a lot of disclaimers on its use:
• Intended to be used for testing and feedback purposes.
• Develop settings applied in Lightroom 4 beta are not guaranteed to transfer correctly to the final version
• While data loss is not expected, this is an early ‘beta’ quality build and you should always work on duplicates of files that are securely backed up.
…So how do we proceed? Read more…
Biggest LR4b Surprise
On Tuesday Jan 10th, Adobe announced a new beta version of Lightroom. It has been a few days and I am still trying to put my arms around this new version of Lightroom 4 Beta [LR4b]. LR4b is not just the explosion of new capabilities but the expansion of existing tools for nondestructive digital image processing. I have been viewing videos, reading blogs, taking notes, pulling and poking sliders in LR4b all with the thought of trying to distill this new version’s features and their effect on real-world digital image processing.
To say the least, LR4b is a very exciting release… it not only expands the scope of our processing capability but will change how we process and work with our digital photos. In this post, I offer my initial Most Exciting New Features, Biggest Surprise, initial video and blog links to explore along with considerations when using LR4b.
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“Auto-Toning” with PV2012 is a perplexing dilemma.
