Now to answer the 2nd part of this question… (NOTE: If you ever want to turn this feature off, just right-click on it and choose “Apply on Import” again). STEP FOUR: Go to the Presets panel and right-click directly on your Auto Settings preset, and from the pop-up menu that appears, choose Apply on Import (as shown here), and you’re good to go.īy the way - after you choose this preset as your ‘Apply on Import’ choice, it adds a + (plus sign) after the preset’s name (as seen above) to let you know that preset has been designated as the Apply on Import preset. In the next step let’s set it up to apply this preset automatically when you import any images.
Now click the Create button, and your preset is done. Also, you’ll notice that down in the regular Settings section there is still one checkbox checked for ‘Process Version.’ Leave that turned on, so you’re using the most recent Lightroom math behind the scenes. STEP THREE: Now, in the Auto Settings section up in the top third of this window, turn on the checkbox for Auto Settings (as seen here). STEP TWO: When the New Preset window appears (seen above), click the ‘Check None’ button (shown circled above in red) to deselect all the different Settings checkboxes. STEP ONE: As I mentioned – don’t make any edits to your image leave everything at zero and just head straight over to the Presets panel and choose ‘Create Preset’ as shown here). To create an Auto Settings preset that works, you don’t do anything to your image (leave it untouched), then follow these steps: If you opened an image hit the Auto button, and then made a preset, it would apply those same sliders in the same position to every photo, which is not what we want.
#AUTO TURN ON LIGHT HOW TO#
Let’s answers both questions:įirst, how to create an “Auto Preset” which is a bit different than you might think, because normally you would open an image make all your edits, then save those edits as a preset.
Anyway, thought you’d want to know that Adobe has really worked to improve the Auto Feature big time.
It’s actually now quite useable as a starting place to being your editing, and for some folks, it will look good enough as an ending point, too (just depends on the image and the person editing it). Note: If you’re wincing at the thought of using Auto at all, I will tell you that today it’s vastly better than its ever been. This is another one of the questions asked during our Lightroom Conference (which we’ll get to below), and it brought up another question: If you were to create a preset that applied an Auto Adjustment, would it apply the same Auto Adjustment to every image (moving the sliders to the same exact locations for every image), or would it analyze each image separately as it imports them, so each image would be Auto corrected individually, even if they were imported as a group of images?