Thank you so much for this response, Michael. I have done both your Landscapes in Lightroom courses and gotten so much out of them, and I have been using the exposure and contrast settings you suggest as my import presets; I will add the black adjustment / reverse S-curve to my workflow. This all seems like a better approach than going down…

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A friend just sent me some info re camera-specific linear profiles for Adobe LR and ACR. Is there any reason to go down this rabbit hole?

Thanks very much – that’s extremely helpful!

Michael, do you feel like you are able to do just about everything you need to do in LR now, especially with the new local adjustment panel? What, if anything, do you feel like you need to go into PS for?

Thanks – this is super helpful! I’ll go back and look at the video on tone controls yet again. You use the term “compromise exposure” frequently, but I’m not sure you actually define it in any of the videos (I could be wrong about that). I’m guessing you mean an exposure that achieves the best overall balance in the midtones, but it would be…

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How do you decide whether to use the black/white sliders or the tone curve to set black point and white point?

Thanks – super helpful! I wish Adobe would add Content-Aware capabiity to LR and ACR, as it’s so powerful.

If I need to go from LR to PS to do something I can’t do in LR, can I use content-aware features on a smart object?

Thank you!

Thank you! I will try this.

In the adjustments panel, double-clicking on “effects” sets all the sliders back to 0, but clicking on it again does not get back the adjustments just made, so I can’t really see a before/after view for a specific adjustment. What am I doing wrong?