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April 7, 2018
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How do get auto-tone in develop settings?

  • April 7, 2018
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How do I get auto -tone to be part of the develop settings?

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elie_dinur
Participating Frequently
April 9, 2018

LR already supplies a preset. Apply it during import or later to selected images, but be aware that if you subsequently crop or change the Profile, the Auto Settings button in Basic will be available again so you can recalculate the operation.

Participant
May 20, 2018

How have I not found this in the past. Thanks! I know I also saw someone posted that your could (in develop) hold down ALT or apple key and double click on the tonal variable and only 'auto' that variable, ie exposure, highligths. But that doesn't work for me in latest Classic.

Any tips greatly appreciated @elie_di.

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johnrellis
Legend
May 20, 2018

I know I also saw someone posted that your could (in develop) hold down ALT or apple key and double click on the tonal variable and only 'auto' that variable, ie exposure, highligths. But that doesn't work for me in latest Classic.

Hold down Shift and double-click the slider label to the left of the slider (e.g. "Exposure", "Contrast", etc.).

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 7, 2018

You haven't mentioned which version of Lightroom you're using. I addition, it would be helpful if you could provide a bit more information on what you're actually trying to do.

In meantime, note that from Lightroom 7.2 onwards, 'Auto Tone' has become 'Auto' because it also affects image colour by also including Vibrance and Saturation.

walteronoAuthor
Inspiring
April 7, 2018

Latest version of LR classic CC. I want to include Tone as part of the Develop default settings. I take an image, adjust the parameters and then make those settings the default develop settings. But if I include Tone, each image when imported using the default settings is not individually tone corrected; they all have the corrections made to the original photo. I want them to be individually tone corrected to save me having to do this manually.

Participating Frequently
August 30, 2018

I use a preset with Auto Tone on import and it works flawlessly, no matter how many photos I import. Check your camera default settings. Maybe you've set something in those that overrides one or more sliders.

To do so press the 'Reset' button. Then check if there are sliders (don't forget other panels, like curves) that are still not at zero.


I no longer see a place to apply the Adobe presets at Import. I used to be able to do this.

Now, I don't see the Adobe presets in the list.