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P: LR4 doesn't display point curve adjustments made in LR3

LEGEND ,
Mar 06, 2012 Mar 06, 2012

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After updating from LR3, LR4 has reset my tone curves. I use custom tone curves on almost every picture, and all my contrast treatments this way seem to have gone. Initially the previews were still the old ones, so I only noticed after opening several pictures in the develop module, just to see my meticulous tone curve adjustments be removed.

Is anyone else seeing this?

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Adobe Employee , Mar 29, 2012 Mar 29, 2012
Lightroom 4.1 is now available on Adobe Labs:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...

Includes a fix for this issue, plus several other top issues and includes 5D Mk III support:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...

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Advisor ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Having been asked to provide also feedback to the documentation and implementation of this fix:

I was very surprised that the link for downloading the lua displayed a web page with illegible signs in my Firefox 10.0.02 browser.
I did not see any button for download, as I would have expected, so I used the context menu of Firefox, which produced a .lua-file on my comp.
I would have preferred to see only an icon and a download button behind the link. No need to view *pure lua* ;-)

The instructions provided in the PDF I found easy and straight forward.
(Win7 user)

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Participant ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Can't you take screenshots of the image and the curve in LR3 and 4? This is exactly what I was trying to find and couldn't, because I'm not that heavy an user of curves in LR.

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Participant ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Ach, well. You were able to save it, and it is just a test-fix, not the real thing. Wouldn't be too picky there.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Hmm.. me not being happy about the replacing of the custom tone curve is one thing, but the fix actually changing appearance of the image without a PV change is even more alarming.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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yes, the link in the pdf is broken: it need some creative cut and past to create a link from the text "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18653315/Restore Lightroom 3 Point Tone Curves.lua".

Mauro

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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The correct link is: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18653315/Rest...
Marco

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Hello Tom,
the scripts for me works like a charm.
Thanks a lot!
Marco Zuppone

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Participant ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Even easier way to get rid of all the custom points - right mouse click, ...

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LEGEND ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Hi Tom,

Can we please have an estimate of delivery for the fix of this issue? I'm really looking forward to upgrading to LR4 but this issue will prevent me from doing so.

Cheers,
badmonkeh

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New Here ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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But if Edward gots pictures with custom point curves he has the chance to get that issue, too, as long as no hotfix is out...

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New Here ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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Chris, that's my opinion, too. Sure, Adobe wants to handle piracy and user complains about broken catalogs during Beta, but I think more people would have tested LR4Beta seriously if they had been able to work with a backup of their old catalog.

I don't know what I should think now about LR4.

In this state LR4 seems to have a lot issues. Just look at the others threads especially the performance issues in the user forum.

Someone wrote we gave Adobe a loan. That's pretty much what I think now. Because no one will risk to import his main productive catalog if a software is not ready yet or apply a workaround to thousands of pictures.

And an alpha fix after one week... come on!

Interesting: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...

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Advisor ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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I had the same, but I attribute it to LR4 and 3 using the same previews.
So LR3 used the preview distroyed by LR4 previously until it rendered its own one again.

Cornelia

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New Here ,
Mar 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012

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But why the fill light setting changed? And I dropped all my previews...

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LEGEND ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Can we have the pdf too, please?

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LEGEND ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Hi Tom,

I also miss other changes on my photo's. Such as converting to black and white, cropping, sharpness and lot more.

Hans from Holland

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Enthusiast ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Did you convert the catalog from LR3, or just imported the existing photos again into a new, empty LR4-calatlog?

I ask because I had no such problems besides the curves discussed here.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Hello,
I made the following test and I was not able to reproduce the issue (lost cropping etc..)
1-Create a new catalog with LR3
2-Imported some pictures
3-Cropped some of them, rotated other, tone curve changed on one, and converted one to B&W
4-Closed LR3 and opened LR4
5-Told LR4 to convert the LR3 catalog
Result: it is all OK except for the tone curve
6-I executed the script provided
Result: all OK.
Regards,
Marco no-nic

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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How do you execute the script?

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Look in this thread for a comment to Tom Hogarty and send a comment to him to you'd like to have the script.
He will send you the script and a PDF that explains how to use it.
The script is only a sort of ''alpha'' solution: they will release something definitive soon it seems.
Marco

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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I only asked: How do you execute the script ?

Marco Simone Zuppone 23 hours ago
The correct link is: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18653315/Rest...
Marco

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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You create a folder called scripts in your Lightroom presets folder. (in explorer or finder while LR closed). Copy the downloaded .lua-file into it. Then you start LR4 again and you find an extra menu "scripts" from which you select this one entry.

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Sorry with "same previews" I meant the "embed fast load data" option in DNG settings, which I have ticked. Real previews folder, the ones you pobably dropped, is individual to LR3 and LR4.

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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I am not picky, I am offing Tom the advice regarding the total package, before this will be published to the broad community. He has kindly solicited such feedback in his alpha-handover mail.
Because he knows that many of his customers are more artists than tekkies and appreciate a non-confusing method.

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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Dorin, the pdf just describes where to load the .lua-file from and where to create a folder called "scripts" in which to copy it into. Then some screenshots how you will find an extra menu on restarting LR, from which to invoke the script execution.

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Advisor ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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See 2 comments further down.

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