Good information about the order of adjustments in Lightroom

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This morning’s newsletter from The Luminous Landscape had the latest installment of a review of Lr vs DxO PhotoLab 9. Not something I’ve been following but as I scanned down I found an interesting list of the order in which things should be done in Lr. The link to the Adobe article has extensive information about efficiency, but just over halfway down is a hidden gem that says, basically, that many (all?) AI adjustments should be done before most of the adjustments in the Basic panel, excluding Exposure, Contrast and Curves. I presume that is because the sliders for Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity and Dehaze cause halos. So do we have a situation similar to the rasterization of tonal values going from Lr to PS where some things are set in concrete? I guess that makes sense in that you can go back and change an adjustment in those sliders but the AI step you did that affected those regions can’t adapt to the changed slider values. I’m so used to everything being adaptable to everything else that I need to start paying attention as I use more and more of these new tools. Here’s the Adobe article:

https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/lightroom-classic/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html

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You can still do things in any order you want. The problem with the AI tools is that they will trigger a regeneration of the AI, which is a big waste of time, and in some cases, like with generative fill, you will get completely new results, which could be very bad. I cover this pretty extensively in my Toolkit course. I only mention this because I know you have it :blush:

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I do, and eventually I’ll find time to go through the videos! I haven’t even found time to process the comet I shot over a week ago. (It will take hours.)

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This is very useful, thanks Diane