Photoclubalpha

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.

I normally shoot craw+jpg and often the jpg is good enough. Only in special cases I process the craw.

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.

where are changes like that made? maybe I don't understand what LR is doing when it imports new pictures to the catalog.

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

is there a way to see what it'd doing now ?

Javelin wrote:is there a way to see what it'd doing now ?

Develop settings and presets are real-time.

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?

It has default settings. Change them.

Got o the Develop Module.
Click the Develop Menu
Click Set Default Settings...

Thanks Winston. found it

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.

Harvey

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