MacSpikes Posted July 21, 2020 Share #1 Posted July 21, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) For quick postprocessing I usually use the "auto" function to adjust tones. This works great with my Leica Q, but not with my Leica S (007) and the latest version of Lightroom Classic (which now specs a new "LrC" icon). I use version 9.3 with CameraRaw 12.3 and the "auto" option really is hot or miss, with colours either highly oversaturated and overexposed whites. How can this be? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John McMaster Posted July 21, 2020 Share #2 Posted July 21, 2020 Because 'auto' usually boosts things - why have an expensive camera and leave the choices to software? john Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrayson3 Posted July 21, 2020 Share #3 Posted July 21, 2020 In particular, Auto boosts saturation and vibrance. Try recentering those and see if the result is more to your liking. Other things to try are the different color profiles. Adobe has changed its defaults, and you may get a much better result going to Adobe Color, Landscape, Vivid, Natural, or Portrait. Matt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitz Posted July 21, 2020 Share #4 Posted July 21, 2020 Or you can go to the Camera Matching profiles instead of the Adobe profiles, make your own profile using a standard color card, or combine these or any other steps you like into a Setting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted July 21, 2020 Share #5 Posted July 21, 2020 With M9, S006/007 and Q, I typically work the color /tonality/perspective adjustments, painstakingly in Lightroom and then export to PS for cropping/cloning/selective adjustment, etc. I occasionally try the auto adjustments in PS just to see how the algorithms interpret the file data. And, admittedly, they are occasionally superior to my own interpretation. Indeed, it sometimes surprises me how far off I can be, and the auto adjustments provides at least a valuable foil for comparison. I do not know about such things neurological, but I find that my eye (brain) can be "calibrated" as I work an image, a trompe l'oiel, only to find once I hit the auto adjustment that I am well off the mark. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted July 21, 2020 Share #6 Posted July 21, 2020 X-Rite ColorChecker Passport makes generating custom profiles easy with Lightroom. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Richardson Posted July 21, 2020 Share #7 Posted July 21, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) My guess would be that if you are looking for a good quick and dirty option, it is probably better to shoot DNG plus a small JPEG... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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