Lightroom "Auto Tone" Issue

Mark_48 wrote in post #3047107
Sorry if this has already been covered somewhere here...I couldn't find anything related.

I'm starting to play around with Lightroom, learning how things work and have found that the "Auto Tone" function, both in the Library and Develop, pushes the brightness up considerably of the image (squishes the histogram much to the right), so much so that it looks blown out. I assume it works this way for everyone else? Fruitlessly I looked for something that might "calibrate" the Auto feature.
I'm not sure how much I'll ever use the Auto Tone function, but to me it should work in a similiar manner as the Auto functions in CS2 and produce a more balanced appearing image. I'm not simply missing something, am I?

I find it can vary from picture to picture sometimes it hits the spot but more often than not I manually correct. I wouldn't put my life in the hands of the auto pilot

Mark Marnell wrote in post #4233482
I find it can vary from picture to picture sometimes it hits the spot but more often than not I manually correct. I wouldn't put my life in the hands of the auto pilot

I usually hit it then adjust afterwards to my liking. I would say out of 10 photos (raw) it hits right on maybe 1 of them. Not a good ratio, but a god starting point to then manually adjust.

I'm have the same or similar problem.

When I import my raw files, it totally wipes out my cwb settings, and my images look awful.

I cannot figure this out.

sorry to revive this very old thread again

i'm learning lightroom and its been really great.

I sometimes use this auto function, and its been ok.

the question is, there are times when i want to tweak images after i press auto tone. Is there a way to show a slider in the adjustments? all i have are arrows left and right, no physical slider to help me adjust, so just you know where you are at. Or even numbers at least to know exactly where you are at.

is there a work around?

thanks

You're still in Library module John, and you're looking at Quick Develop. Skip to the full Develop module and you'll have proper sliders and numbers.

Victoria Bampton wrote in post #8291346
You're still in Library module John, and you're looking at Quick Develop. Skip to the full Develop module and you'll have proper sliders and numbers.

thanks for this so i can only do this one by one i guess and not mass edit?

and there are terms there that i dont really understand like vibrance and clarity

sorry so new at this. if you could point me to a good website i will stop asking questions Google didn't deliver on me this time

EDIT: i found your sig to be very interesting! thanks for the reply! i found a good place to ask around about LR!

In Develop module, you can use Sync to copy the settings between images, or AutoSync to adjust multiple images in one go.

The difference is that in Develop module, the settings are absolute - if one image is set to -1 exposure, and the other to +1 exposure, increasing the first image to 0 will also set the other image to 0. If you did that with Quick Develop in Library module, the changes are relative - they'd both increase by 1 stop, relative to their current settings. Both have their uses, so it's just good to understand the difference.

Glad to hear you found the links useful - ask away!