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How do get auto-tone in develop settings?

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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

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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.

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damage98

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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

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

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.

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walteronoAuthor

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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.

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glenb69117286

Participant

I have tried doing this and it doesn't seem to work consistently for me. I have done two different variations.

1. Right clicked "Auto Settings" as "Apply on Import" and it seems to work for the first 2-3 photos, but usually by photo 4 the Tone settings are way off. They are usually way overexposed and if I click "Auto" again in the "Basic" panel it then adjusts appropriately.

2. Created my own import preset with "Auto" selected as part of the preset. Same behavior as above, it seems to work for 1-3 photos and then the tone settings are wildly off and by clicking "Auto" again in the develop panel it then corrects them.

athflying,

I am having very similar results (using the current version of Classic CC) to you in that it works about 30% of the time. If I import like 200 pics with the "Auto Settings" checkbox checked in the preset I have picked to use on each import, I find the first few work and then several don't work and then maybe one here and there as I go through the pictures. This, in my opinion, is a Bug that needs to be addressed. With the recent changes to algorithms used for the Auto button this could be very useful as I now find that (when it works correctly) the results are very close and is a good starting place.

Please note that this is not a case of it only analyzing one picture and then using those setting for all the pictures as the setting will still be different on each picture (just terribly wrong most of the time). Of course, hitting the Auto button will fix it but who wants to hit Auto 200 times?

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