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Jul 10, 2009 14:58 |  #1

Hey, what's going on here? The original shot of a moonlit scene is dark. When I import it into Lightroom, it looks as it was shot. When I go to Develop Module it ups the exposure and ruins the shot. I have my settings as "none" in Import Preset. Why is Lightroom "correcting" this when I want no correction? Are my settings wrong?
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Jul 10, 2009 15:03 |  #2

It appears that at some stage you altered the sliders and saved those changes as defaults....the Brightness, Contrast and the Presence Sliders are certainly not in their default positions.


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Jul 10, 2009 15:27 |  #3

Also, you have DPP setup wrong.
Do not set a CMYK (proofing) profile.

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Jul 10, 2009 15:28 as a reply to  @ PixelMagic's post |  #4

I don't remember doing so with this folder of images. If that's the case though, how do I reset the defaults to have no processing?


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Jul 10, 2009 15:36 |  #5

Select all images you want to reset, press Alt as you did in your screenshot (to get the Set Default button which is normally Reset), press that, choose "Restore Adobe Default settings". Then press "Reset", then "Sync..."

The defaults are Camera (and if set so) ISO specific. Not folder specific.


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Jul 10, 2009 19:11 as a reply to  @ René Damkot's post |  #6

Thanks for the replies. Now, this is the preset folder for importing. It shows "none" for Develop Settings. I suppose Lightroom still applies camera settings anyway. Is exposure adjustment part of that camera settings adjustment?

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Jul 11, 2009 05:13 |  #7

ctcks wrote in post #8259595 (external link)
Thanks for the replies. Now, this is the preset folder for importing. It shows "none" for Develop Settings. I suppose Lightroom still applies camera settings anyway. Is exposure adjustment part of that camera settings adjustment?
IMG NOTICE: [NOT AN IMAGE URL, NOT RENDERED INLINE]

Other than white balance Lightroom knows nothing about the way your camera is set up and couldn't care less. It does apply a set of Develop Module settings that are either the original factory default or a substitute default you have created. In the screen shot above Exposure is set at +1.3, Brightness at 93 and Contrast 7. The Adobe defaults are 0, 50 and 25. Follow the instructions others have given above to reset the defaults.


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Jul 11, 2009 06:58 |  #8

ctcks wrote in post #8258586 (external link)
I don't remember doing so with this folder of images. If that's the case though, how do I reset the defaults to have no processing?

You can't have no processing - LR has to process the raw information to get anything that looks like an image.

Set the LR develop settings the way you want them, hold down the 'Alt' key and you'll see the bottom-right button change to 'Set Default'. Click on that and you'll have some options as to when you want to apply these as default settings on future import.


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