Hi Eric: The Develop options are there to be used; it’s not cheating if you use them, but ultimately you should be looking to render your photos in a way that realizes the way you, the photographer, envisions the photo. Even if you Auto Tone, you can scale back or up on the sliders to customize the Auto Tone. Just start moving sliders around to see what you get. This is one way to learn about the adjustments.
Another way is to watch the Julieanne Kost tutorials available for free on Adobe’s web site. Here’s the link: http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-5/ They are well worth watching. HTH. Cheers, Christine On Sep 11, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > I just used LR’s Auto Tone, under Library in the Quick Develop module, for > the first time. Liked the results I got so much I started synchronizing them > across groups of images shot under similar conditions. Am I cheating? > > When I look at the details of what was done in Develop mode I see that many > small adjustments have been made. What I don’t like is that I’m not learning > to make these adjustments my. In most cases I don’t even have any idea what > the qualities changed are. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon > you learn something no one has learned before." > > - Richard Feynman > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
