Lightroom annoyance

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Lightroom annoyance

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I've pretty much been using LR for everything this last while. I did remember discussion on this issue before but for the life of me I can't find it.

I shoot Craw mostly and in the LR catalog when I first import the pics I see the thumbnails are probably the ones embedded in the RAW then LR must load a profile because they all change in short order. After that when I load a picture to edit in "develop" mode it will load with what think are camera settings but then after a second the same sort of thing happens. well I've been putting up with it but I think I've had enough. how do I get LR to just leave things the way they are from the camera when I import? I find I spend more tiome getting the keepers back to the way the jpg looks in the camera that I may as well be shoooting jpg instead of raw in the first place.
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Re: Lightroom annoyance

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I normally shoot craw+jpg and often the jpg is good enough. Only in special cases I process the craw.
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Camera manufacturers do not share their JPG recipes. Therefore, Lightroom doesn't know the recipe. Set up your Lightroom defaults to get what you want.
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where are changes like that made? maybe I don't understand what LR is doing when it imports new pictures to the catalog.
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Javelin wrote:where are changes like that made? maybe I don't understand what LR is doing when it imports new pictures to the catalog.
Pick a representative raw file (one you like the way the camera does it).

adjust the Lightroom develop settings for the results you want.

Turn the settings into a preset.

Use the preset for "Develop Settings" in the import dialog.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2 ... 16A03.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2 ... 5D175.html
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is there a way to see what it'd doing now ?
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Javelin wrote:is there a way to see what it'd doing now ?
Develop settings and presets are real-time.
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so there is no pre set script somewhere that LR uses on all imports?it just makes it up at the time it imports the pictures?
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It has default settings. Change them.

Got o the Develop Module.
Click the Develop Menu
Click Set Default Settings...
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Thanks Winston. found it
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There is a relevant discussion on the Adobe forums here

Also some people have created LR Develop presets to set to zero (here and here}

Also it seems you can set defaults per camera and ISO if you wish.

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Re: Lightroom annoyance

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Thanks Harvey. this is exactly the issue I want to look at. not I have to decide what normal should be.
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