Comments on: “What happened to Fill Light and Recovery?”

By: Halo

Halo — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:59:25 +0000

Great info thanks! I won’t need to do it all the time but it’s nice to know I can still invoke the Fill Light and Recovery controls if needed. I guess I’m just not up to speed on LR4 yet as it still takes me 20 clicks to accomplish what I was able to do with the Fill Light slider in a few seconds :-(

By: David

David — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:51:58 +0000

Speaking as a fire photographer, I’m really stoked to get my hands on LR4. Halos are easily the biggest problem I run into when editing fire shots, so to hear that issue has been addressed is exciting! That, and being able to use these as local adjustments… yeah wow.

By: Jose Urena

Jose Urena — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:29:33 +0000

Giles: I understand your reasoning, but the reasoning behind the current order is that if you look at histogram areas controlled by each slider, Exposure controls the largest at the middle, followed by Shadows and Highlights -in equal widths-, and the smallest are the two Whites & Blacks -also in equal widths-. Therefore, the idea is that you tweak the biggest “chunk” of histogram first, then the two smaller “chunks”, and you end with the two smallest. It makes sense to me.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:36:09 +0000

You can even revert it back on an image-by-image basis. Develop > Camera Calibration > Process = 2010.

The only thing I find annoying is the order of the new controls. Who thought it a good idea to put them in that order?

OK; fair enough – Exposure goes first even though it controls the middle of the histogram. But how about lightest to darkest after that?

Whites / Highlights / Shadows / Blacks would make much more intuitive sense to me than moving from inside to outside and bouncing back and forth from upper section of the histogram to lower section.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:18:47 +0000

Oh, J, you’re just dreaming of the day when technology “evolves” (more fully) into boutique consumer fashion stuff like running shoes, so women and kids will get in fist fights over the stuff in stores and everyone in the business will make as much money as the funky-dressed men and women in the high fashion industry make and you can have so many Hasselblads that you just toss one into the back seat of your weekend BMW to grab some snapshots on the way to the spaceport.

But, then, I guess, that’s not really a bad future. Think it’s going to happen?

By: Mono vox

Mono vox — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:50:20 +0000

I loved and hated recovery and fill light. They were both brilliant and maddening depending on the image and what you wanted to do…

The new process is hands down the best Lightroom has ever been in attaining the look I have for my images that I have in my head. Something that happened 45% of the time in Lightroom 3. (and I loved LR3)

The thing that drives me crazy is that Adobe did not take away recovery and highlight! I hear people whining all over the place about it. Don’t convert that image to process version 2012! That’s it and you have LR4 with the old controls. Enjoy both worlds and quite whining!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:29:40 +0000

“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.” ― Jef Raskin

[Yeah, and imagine if computer technology advanced as rapidly as shoe technology. *That* would be a source of complaint. --J.]

By: Deyan

Deyan — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:53:14 +0000

I do not like that changes…. realy miss fill light and recovery… My 2 favorite things!