Editing presets in notepad - not working, would like help making it.

[willthisnamedo]

Hi all, I'd like to have a setting, a bit like 'auto tone' but for brightness only.

Currently an auto preset would code like this:

s = {

    id = "47641807-1AD4-4969-BC99-753C71D75AB1",

    internalName = "aww",

    title = "aww",

    type = "Develop",

    value = {

        settings = {

            AutoBrightness = false,

            AutoContrast = false,

            AutoExposure = false,

            AutoShadows = false,

            AutoTone = true,

            ProcessVersion = "10.0",

            },

        uuid = "D7C6F50A-16C4-4218-B1F5-618C7891B4BA",

    },

    version = 0,

}

So it stood to reason:

s = {

    id = "47641807-1AD4-4969-BC99-753C71D75AB1",

    internalName = "aww",

    title = "aww",

    type = "Develop",

    value = {

        settings = {

            AutoBrightness = true,

            AutoContrast = false,

            AutoExposure = false,

            AutoShadows = false,

            AutoTone = false,

            ProcessVersion = "10.0",

            },

        uuid = "D7C6F50A-16C4-4218-B1F5-618C7891B4BA",

    },

    version = 0,

}

Would work? Thing is it doesn't. Can anyone help me to figure out why this is?

Thanks!

[johnrellis]

Those Auto* settings are holdovers from older process versions. The only thing that works in Process Versions 3 (2012) and 4 is AutoTone.

[willthisnamedo]

Thanks John, so there's no way to have something similar working with newer processes?

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

so there's no way to have something similar working with newer processes?

Not with a single preset, no.  You can use two presets, one applied after the other, as described here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/idea-auto-exposure-in-addition-to-auto-tone?t...

Do you know that you can also shift-double-click on a slider label in the Basic panel, and it will set to an automatically chosen value?  Most (but not all) of the sliders will auto-set to what Auto would have chosen.  But you can only do this one photo at a time.

[willthisnamedo]

Thanks John, that was pretty much what I needed there. Thank you!