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Is it possible to make presets for individual colour channels in LR4? I mean by adjusting the red channel then adjusting the green channel if needed

I don't think so. I certain;y couldn't find a way. It appears that a preset which adjusts colour channels adjusts them all. This means that a previous +10 to green will be overwritten if you apply a second preset which has green set to zero. Zero does not equal "no change" it equals a mid point between + & -1

It's a shame that this isn't the case, hope they do this in LR6 if not done in LR5

Just to clarify because Dan seems to think that you are asking about using at the same time two or three presets, each one for a different channel curve. Is that what you mean? You can create a preset with a curve for one channel and after applying it you can manually make changes in the other channels if you wish, or revise the shape of the preset channel curve, for that matter.

tzalman wrote in post #17118225
Just to clarify because Dan seems to think that you are asking about using at the same time two or three presets, each one for a different channel curve. Is that what you mean? You can create a preset with a curve for one channel and after applying it you can manually make changes in the other channels if you wish, or revise the shape of the preset channel curve, for that matter.

Yes, the channel curves.

I know you can change it manually, but it's too annoying to adjust it manually after using one channel preset, would also be good if the next version of lightroom allowed the rgb curve to be adjusted before/after

Dj R wrote in post #17067810
LR 5.6 update available.

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.6...
JPEG files exported from Lightroom would not open or be available to edit within Canon Digital Photo Professional application software.

Glad they fixed that one.

Seems like any time I try to hit "auto tone" it thinks it needs to blow out the exposure. I don't know if I'm shooting it wrong and it's overcompensating or what. I'm definitely no pro, so that could be part of it.

bemerick wrote in post #17118645
Seems like any time I try to hit "auto tone" it thinks it needs to blow out the exposure. I don't know if I'm shooting it wrong and it's overcompensating or what. I'm definitely no pro, so that could be part of it.

Forget auto tone, start learning to use the sliders yourself, there are plenty of tutorials on the 'net to teach you as a guide on how to use the sliders

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17121142
Forget auto tone, start learning to use the sliders yourself, there are plenty of tutorials on the 'net to teach you as a guide on how to use the sliders

Aside from the general Auto Tone, which does all six Basic sliders at once, each individual slider can be auto-set by holding down Shift and double-clicking on the name of the slider. I usually manually set Exposure and Contrast, then manually Highlights and Shadows, then Auto Tone on Whites and Blacks, reduce Whites by 2 points, set Clarity, tweak Contrast. On people I juggle Temp, Tint and Exposure to get something like 79/73/64 on well lit part of (European) skin.

tzalman wrote in post #17122066
Aside from the general Auto Tone, which does all six Basic sliders at once, each individual slider can be auto-set by holding down Shift and double-clicking on the name of the slider. I usually manually set Exposure and Contrast, then manually Highlights and Shadows, then Auto Tone on Whites and Blacks, reduce Whites by 2 points, set Clarity, tweak Contrast. On people I juggle Temp, Tint and Exposure to get something like 79/73/64 on well lit part of (European) skin.

Didn't know that, thanks for that tip

I did something to mess up the path where Lightroom puts my photos when I import them. Instead of putting them in the already existing 2014 folder, it creates a new 2014 folder above the existing folder.

I've been using Lightroom for a couple years now and this just started happening a few weeks ago. I contacted Adobe customer service once and they weren't much help, truth be told.

Any ideas what I did to mess it up?

Can you post a screen capture of your Import page?

I was on the phone with an Adobe service tech for a couple hours.... to no avail. He did change some things so I had to re-import about half of my photos...... that took a while.

But in the mean time, right after I hung up, I went to edit/preferences and though nothing had been changed, I hit the "restart lightroom" icon at the bottom left of the screen.... somehow, that fixed everything.

I have no idea what it fixed or why it wasn't working properly but it's working now.

Phoenixkh wrote in post #17124161
I did something to mess up the path where Lightroom puts my photos when I import them. Instead of putting them in the already existing 2014 folder, it creates a new 2014 folder above the existing folder.

I've been using Lightroom for a couple years now and this just started happening a few weeks ago. I contacted Adobe customer service once and they weren't much help, truth be told.

Any ideas what I did to mess it up?

Does that with me as well, I think there is a bug that either Adobe knows and won't do anything, or they don't know therefore hence the reason why they are being not so helpful

Awesome thanks!