Select Subject In LR Classic: adjustments made upon opening

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November 15, 2024
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In LR classic ( lastest version) when choosing the masking option of "select subject" there are adjustments already here to exposure and highlights. It is as though a preset is there, but I did not create any presets for "select subject". Anyone else having this problem? Would like a fix for this. Thanks

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richardplondon

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It is long-standing Lr(Classic) behaviour that you can customise what default adjustments are initially seen, whenever you add a new local adjustment mask (involving a selection of any kind).

The sequence is important here: add the new Mask entry, then move some sliders: you are only changing the adjustments belonging to this one brand new local adjustment. OTOH first move some sliders and then add the new Mask entry: you have changed the default processing slider settings that ALL new local adjustments will begin with hereafter, including this one.

If you want all your brand new adjustments to always start out showing zeroed adjustments, you can prevent any such customised defaults from being put in place: there is an "always Reset" checkbox option in the masking panel. I don't recall the exact wording for this checkbox, but that's the idea.

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bruce himAuthor

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Hi Richard:

Thanks for your response. I understand that you can customize the preset but I did not make a preset using select subject. I know you can reset the mask to all zeros but why is it making that auto adjustment without any input from me.

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richardplondon

Community Expert

As I recall there is just one customised set of default adjustments (it might be misleading to call this a 'preset') - and this is held in common for all sorts of mask. It is not remembered differently for each different kind. So (possibly by accident), this will have been 'recorded' recently while you were making a new mask with some other selection method. Say, a brush mask or a gradient or something.

Similarly, if you check the box to say "always reset" then every kind of new mask will show that behaviour hereafter. Remembering, a mask item may come to contain multiple kinds of selection - also, changing kinds of selection over time. There is no such thing as a "subject mask" per se, only a Mask which (currently) happens to use Subject as its sole form of selection. The default adjustments apply for the parent Mask entity, not for the subcomponents within that (such as Subject or Sky or Brush).

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