P: Camera Raw: Problems with ACR presets

Inspiring

No, everything doesn't get reset. If I'm following you, what you're worried about is whether or not you can adjust settings for an image, then use a saved preset that only is applied to a specific area, such as split-tone. Your settings aren't reset to the default settings. Not even Detail and Sharpening if I've modified it, and the Detail tab, if you use Adobe's defaults, does have both sharpening and noise reduction applied.

You can save presets each with only a very specific feature, and then apply them one on top of another, if you so choose. They won't conflict if you set it up right, and your manual settings won't conflict if you never modify, say, the basic tab in a saved preset.

Is that what you're worried about?

ssprengel

Inspiring

This seems like a more serious issue, since it messes with all the values, not just Defringe Hue values. I am not one who uses Actions with ACR hardly at all.

Do all of the values that are in unchecked sections (for example if you also unchecked Exposure and Sharpening, etc) get reset to defaults or is it just the ones that you've mentioned?

And has this behavior recently changed with the latest version? I worry that this one comment might get lost since it is something else than the original reported issue.

LucyLu62Author

Known Participant

🙂

Inspiring

Got it. Obviously a problem then. The CR team has always been quick to respond to issues, so fingers crossed. . .

Inspiring

I think it's very unexpected that we can't save the chromatic aberration sliders as part of our custom Camera Raw defaults. I was surprised. <G>

To have to always save it as part of the preset to override the default is obviously not desirable. I set it to 0 for my CR defaults, so have never cared about the sliders, but if Mary is setting it to non-zero amounts, definitely I can see the problem here.

Who are the "eng" team?

LucyLu62Author

Known Participant

Thank you!

LucyLu62Author

Known Participant

Cristen, I'm sorry, I was taking screen shots quickly to post them here. The issue happens when the Amount sliders are set to nonzero amounts.

Thanks again for your response!

J

J453

Legend

Thanks. I've asked the eng team to look into this issue.

Inspiring

But you've set Profile to disable automatic chromatic aberration correction, and you've set the Amount here to 0. So what is the problem? The sliders will have to be set somewhere. You can't remove the sliders. So if you want the sliders in a specific location, you have to save that location and save it in the preset.

With everything OFF, the position of the sliders, should you turn it on manually, is irrelevant, no? They're not doing anything. In the screenshot, note that I still have the Amount of influence set to 0, but I've moved the sliders to a position different from shipping version. The only reason I'd have to do that is if I find that's where my camera, when it displays chromatic aberration, usually needs the sliders to be set.

By saving Chromatic Aberration with the subset of settings, I can have the sliders anywhere I want. But they have to be somewhere, so Adobe set them somewhere, perhaps where they found them most often useful. We can't change that without a deliberate override.