Presets should not reset the transform/lens settings

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Robin Watts

• August 31, 2019 13:25

Please can the developers consider making a change to the way presets are applied?

A typical series of actions that I go through is:

   * Double click a photo to edit it.

   * Tweak the lens settings

   * Spend ages adjusting the transform so that verticals/horizon/scale etc is right.

   * Crop the photo.

   * Apply a preset to improve the colors.

   * Swear violently as all my transform settings are lost.

PLEASE can we either have presets NOT touch lens/transform settings, or maybe have it as an option whether given presets store those settings? It seems really unnatural to have to make subtle lighting tweaks to a photo BEFORE adjusting for lens and transform.

 

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  Robin Watts

  • August 31, 2019 13:34

  Or, could we have a way to "lock" stuff so that applying a preset doesn't overwrite it?

   

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  Bill Kyle

  • August 31, 2019 15:17

  I usually use "Adjustment Layers" to apply presets "Looks" and if I do not like the adjustments made, I delete that layer if resetting a filter individually doesn't help. That should preserve lens correction.

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  Robin Watts

  • September 01, 2019 14:49

  That's a fantastic workaround, thanks. But it's still a workaround, and it'd be nice if the system handled it "properly".

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  Kate Williams

  • September 01, 2019 16:21

  Hi Robin,

  Please note that a look is basically a collection of the filters. When you're applying it to the base layer, it overwrites your previously done edits. If you'd like to preserve them, you can apply the preset to the new adjustment layer. 

  Alternatively, you may apply the preset first to see whether it has a RAW develop filter in it and if not, apply the RAW Develop filter additionally.

  By the way, just a heads up: you can revert the changes using a history button: http://prntscr.com/p0diya 

   

   

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  Robin Watts

  • September 01, 2019 22:55

  Hi Kate.
  
  Yeah, I understand how they work (I'm a software engineer, so I have a grasp of the mechanisms it uses). What I'm saying is that to an untrained user it's unnatural and annoying (and to a trained one it's just annoying).
  
  Do any of the looks out there ever set the lens correction/transform options to anything other than the default? If not, it'd do no harm to omit them.
  
  Or you could have each look *also* contain a list of which settings to apply, and leave the "lens" and "transform" ones unselected in all the system looks.

  Yes, I can revert the changes using the history button; until someone else pointed out the Adjustment layer workaround, I'd been relying on reverting, copying the values out onto paper, changing the look and then reapplying them. The adjustment layer workaround is better than nothing, but it's still a pain. To say that people have to do that is to admit that there is a flaw in the design of the workflow.

   

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  Bill Kyle

  • September 02, 2019 00:53

  Would it be easier to just apply lens correction last? I don't do a lot of lens correction, so I am not sure if that workflow is even recommended or not. 

   

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  Bill Kyle

  • September 02, 2019 01:06

  After reading Kate's replay again I think that would be the best way.

   

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