P: auto tone adjustment in 2012 process doesn't work properly

Please, Adobe, get auto-tone to work as well as PV2010. PV2010 Auto-tone worked well for about 95% of my pictures and created pleasing results extremely quickly.

PV2012 Auto-tone is so poor and so time consuming to adjust that I have reverted to PV2010 for all my imports. What a shame to waste the undoubted quality benefits of PV2012.

Please, please, fix it!

It hasn't even been acknowledged by anyone at Adobe that there is a problem, either.

It is not mentioned in the release notes either.

It is not mentioned in the release notes either.

Rather than use autotone, how does it work if you just [Shift] double click the Exposure control? (The word Exposure)

I just tested release candidate 2: The auto tone problem with process 2012 is still not solved!

Ditto, please fix auto tone with process 2012 is useless.

The auto-tone difference is easy to to create.

Create a virtual copy.

Process Auto-tone is process2010
and the other in process2012

The difference is usually striking -- with 2010 being much preferred and usable for additional fine adjustments.

2012 -- typically is blown out

I have an addition to my first comment. After working a bit with the new process I kind of like it. Yes, I'm still annoyed because of having to edit every image but the overall quality has improved. It seems that the goal of the algorithm is to get as much tone range as possible. There are still some images where there are some tiny white spots like metal reflections. Especially for this kind of images the auto tone functionality does not work and darkens to image too much.

As others have reported, auto tone often dramatically over or underexposes photos. No need to repeat what has already been said (see links below), just to point out that the problem persists in LR4.1 RC. Some have suggested that it worked fine in 3.6. To be honest, I've always been disappointed with Auto Tone results in Lightroom and I've never found it very useful. I would love it if the feature simply behaved like Photoshop's Auto Levels.

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

http://forums.adobe.com/message/43293...

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

John Kemp's wishes for an auto level that works like Photoshop. Perhaps it is a more simplistic algorithm, but from my experience, it performs quite well:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

Same issue here. The 2010 process is doing nearly nothing to the exposure value while the 2012 adds 1-2 stops and overexpose the overall image.