Make AUTO correction features actually improve an image
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I find that the AUTO correction features in C1 are pretty terrible across the board. Adobe has put a lot into their tool and it is actually very good at making a guess, as is the DXO tool, OnOne, and even Luminar. C1 either blows the image out or makes it unusable in some other way. Either this tool needs to be vastly improved or just remove it from the interface. It isn't a positive thing to show people how good C1 is.
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I think that you may need to be more specific about the issues you find with this tool. I never choose to use it, but if I try it, I find that for some images it produces a good starting point for further work and for some it doesn't. I suspect that it depends on the type of subject, and what your envisaged look for the image is. This one is out of camera (top) and after auto-adjustment and nothing else (lower). Capture One adjusted exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows and white balance. Unfortunately it won't correct keystoning automatically. It has brought back some cloud detail (it was a wet and cloudy day). The colour (for instance in the thatched roof) is better. I would probably have brightened the brick work some more. So I think that the result of the auto adjustment is better than the out of camera starting point, though I would want to do more to it.
Ian
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Sedet,
I agree with Ian. Just because you find it terrible (be more specific and show examples please) does not mean all other users agree, hence the request for removal is selfish, just don't use it if you don't like it, and maybe even go with the softwares you better like. I therefore downvoted your request.
thanks
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I agree with IanW and BeO.
I regularly use Auto Levels but less regularly the other adjustments.
However, in general the Auto adjustments will improve results within the objectives of the tools.
I think it is a much more effective approach when used with a Linear curve rather than some other curve selection that is likely to be producing its own influences on the results.
That said one wonders what the OP is expecting from whatever their starting point may be. Having looked at the offered landing page the subject matter and content hardly seem to be the wort of work that would in any way be kick started with some sort of "Auto" adjustment that would benefit the creator.
Grant
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Hi there,
Could you please provide more details on which particular tools should be enhanced in terms of the auto-correction.
Much appreciated.
Lily
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Have you used it on a portrait? I have yet to see the tool produce a better image. It either blows out the details on the face or underexposes the entire image while adding some sort of insane contrast. Sorry, I don't feel this is even in the ballpark with any other auto system on the market.
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Well, I’m pretty ok with Auto Levels and Auto WB settings. I don’t use Auto Exposure or any other as how the system would know what exposure it should be. It is only the photographer who know exactly which part of the picture is the correct exposure. So it is very possible how you implement it, does not work for you.
PS Auto Level can even have a pretty good correction for Orange mask that you’ll get during scanning a film negative. I mean what else do you need?
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I hear ya, but Lightroom has an auto feature that nails it just about every time. I would like to see them revisit this AFTER they add LUTs and fix the silly keyword exporting feature that is a train wreck. Then we can look at nuances like this issue. Bigger fish to fry.
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C1 tries to get some client feedback, which is a dream imo.
The useful information which can be extracted from this seems to be that the auto exposure adjustment adds too much contrast. For a general purpose auto adjust, I do not necessarily agree on this.
It can't be the auto levels adjustment as this tool works well to set white and black point hence adds contrast by definition. Plus, this tool can be configured in the preferences.
Maybe if both are used together, it might not do what the OP wants to see for his portraiture, but luckily which tools to be employed can be configured.
Regarding the complaint about underexposure, C1 would need to know which part of the scene may not be underexposed (whatever this means in terms of actual brightness level).
Maybe a configuation similar to the metering modes in a camera could be implemented, more easy for matrix or highlight-weighted mode, more difficult for spot metering, as C1 would have to read the focus point location from the different camera makers' raw files. This would allow a user to influence the exposure behaviour by configuration.
I wonder if the Linear curve together with the auto adjust, as suggested by Grant but ignored by the OP, would work better for him.
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