On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:18, Larry Colen wrote: > > I've also come to the strong conclusion that I wish that lightroom's > "autotone" feature allowed me to select an area of the photo to optimize the > exposure in, and to let whatever else (like the window behind the people I'm > photographing) fall wherever it may. >
I kinda do it this way (so far it's been working) if I can't get the tones the way I want 'em on my own from the get-go: 1. Select "autotone" and note that the exposure is way off in the weeds (but note that shadow/highlight/contrast have been modified with respect to each other) 2. Grab the "exposure" slider and expose your subject area appropriately. Mostly that works. I like your idea, though, of an "autotone but this is my subject right here" tool but I'm not sure how you'd select a large enough area to properly reflect what the subject is before you let it do its thing! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
