Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Correct: under LR3 and previous, "exposure" adds light to the entire image, "brightness" moves the midpoint. More or less. On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > I'm NOT using it. I'm just experimenting with its new features in order to > understand them, especially to understand them well enough to know whether > I will want to upgrade. The crawling behavior of those sliders prevents > understanding. > > Incidentally, there appears to be a contradiction in LR3. The exposure > slider ostensibly correlates with a section called "exposure" in the > histogram. But I find that it affects exposure over the entire histogram > range, whereas the brightness slider principally affects > exposure/brightness in the mid range. > > Herb > > > > Herbert, may I suggest that you use LR3 if you are not already using it? >> 3.6 is a stable release and works well. LR4 will probably not come out for >> at least another 4-6 months. Let the other trailblazers find the bugs :-) >> >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >> >> > I'm running LR4 on an iMac whose OS is Snow Leopard. While most sliders >> > work fine, the four critical ones: shadows, hilights, etc. are so >> sticky >> > that they are almost useless if the exercise is to look at the picture >> or >> > the histogram and watch what they do. >> > >> > Is this the behavior of the first release, or is something funny going >> on >> > in my machine? I've checked the amount of free memory in Activity >> Monitor, >> > and it is certainly adequate: mucho gigabytes. >> > -- >> > Herbert Kanner >> > kanner at acm.org >> > 650-326-8204 >> > >> > Question authority and the authorities will question you. >> > >> > ______________________________****_________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See >> http://leica-users.org/****mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug> >> <http://**leica-users.org/mailman/**listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>>for >> >> more information >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> // richard >> <http://www.richardmanphoto.**com<http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> > >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>