Lost Sliders in Tone Curve Dialogue 3. & 3.2

Windows XP- I cannot retrieve region sliders in Tone Curve in Develop module. Point curve still visible & useable. Can't find any info under communities. Anyone any ideas please? No problen on laptop Win 7 64. What have I done?
Allan Devon

Allan,
You clicked on the little square with a line through it in the lower right corner of the Tone Curve control, putting yourself into Point Curve mode. Click it again to go back.
Hal

Similar Messages

LR4: tone curve settings lost after upgrade

I've find an annoying bug in this new version that makes me really crazy.
I've a Nikon D300S and a D7000.
After the importation of the catalog in the new Lightroom 4 all the D7000 .dng files have lost all the tone curve settings (I normally use linear).
The D300S files instead retain the tone curve settings.
It's a very strange behaviour: I've lost more than half of my old photo settings.
It's really frustrating.
Will be resolve soon this problem?
Until that day, for my older works I'll be obliged to continue to use LR3.

I've probably found a sort of workaround!
I've made some "organized" tests and here I report my findings.
Using LR3.5, I prepared a "test catalog" using 4 images from 7 different cameras (28 images total): for each of them, I used both the original nef and the dng converted file (56 files in the catalog), all develop process was set to "2010".
The cameras were Nikon D70, D90, D200, D300s, D700, D5000, D7000.
I applied a strong tone curve to each image in a way that the appearance was heavily characterized.
Before exit LR3.5, I SAVED ALL THE METADATA TO THE FILES.
Opening and converting the catalog using LR4, doesn't show any visual change until I zoom in library or open the develop module: both these operation lead to a flat image with the strong tone curve lost.
Curiously, the history retains the original steps but they are ineffective: histogram and tone curve changes according to the visual change but for some camera the "new" tone curve is "medium contrast", for others (D5000, D90) is "linear", for D300s is "custom" (linear with blacks cut at 9.8%, and this explain my initial impression that D300s's curves were untouched, sorry). This last behavior may depend on the fact that I've different default develop settings depending on the camera serial number.
Finally, the update to the 2012 process only minimally changes the visual appearance and surely doesn't restore the lost tone curves.
And here is the UNEXPECTED WORKAROUND: doing a READ METADATA FROM FILES IT RESTORES THE TONE CURVES (and the 2010 process)! Upgrading the process to 2012 minimally changes the visual appearance again but now the strong tone curve is present and evident.

Where are the Tone Curve presets in the Lightroom Presets folder?

Hi
I have recenty had to reinstall all my software, and manged to find most of my old Lightroom settings in the Lightroom Presets folder (inside the Appdata folder on a PC) but I seem to have lost my custom tone curves.
Do you know which folder they should be in (indise the Lightroom Presets folder)
Thanks in advance
PS: I STILL don't understand why there are TWO comminty forums for Lightroom; it just doesn't make sense to me?!
Edward

Edward Allen wrote:
PS: I STILL don't understand why there are TWO comminty forums for Lightroom; it just doesn't make sense to me?!
You aren't the only one, and neither is going away any time soon.

I have lost my "Basic" panel in the Develop module and can't figure out how to get it back. My right panel goes from the Histogram straight to the Tone Curve panel. My Basic panel should be below the Histogram. Any ideas how to get it back. I have even

I have lost my "Basic" panel in the Develop module and can't figure out how to get it back. My right panel goes from the Histogram straight to the Tone Curve panel. My Basic panel should be below the Histogram. Any ideas how to get it back. I have even uninstalled my lightroom and reinstalled it with same issue. Help!!!

Right click on or near one of the other headers and a pop-up will appear and you will be able to select the Basic Panel for viewing.

LR5 not showing Tone Curve "region" panel and associated sliders.

Hi,
The Tone Curve panel in LR5 as currently set up isn't showing the "Region" sub-panel and associated sliders. It also isn't showing the slider immediately under the tone curve itself. Any ideas on how to get these features to show?
Thanks

Hi Jao,
Bingo! That did the trick. Many thanks.
Ian

Missing Tone Curve Sliders

Hi all,
I'm not sure when this happened, but I just noticed that the Tone Curve no longer has sliders to adjust Darks, Lights, Shadows, etc. All I have is the curve itself and the dropdown to adjust the type of curve. Did I accidentally change a setting that hides the sliders? I'm running LR 3.3 on Mac. Thanks in advance!

Paul,
There's a non-obvious button in the lower right cornter of the tone curve panel. It looks like a diagonal line with a dot on it. Press it.
Hal

Individual tone curve sliders have disappeared.

I have the Tone Curve and I can make adjustments just fine. But the three individual sliders beneath it are gone. Tone Curve is checked in Window\Panels. I honestly have no idea what I did to toggle it off. Read a similar thread from 10/20, but the answer didn't solve my problem.

and you get this
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

Tone Curve Region Sliders ?

Please explain how you can identify an area of an image that could benefit from adjustments using the Tone Curve Region Sliders, and explain how to set the sliders to get the effect you want.
Thank you.

I think that the NAPP Lightroom page has a freely available video that shows how and why to use this part of the tone panel.

Tone Curve sliders missing?

I have LR 3.2 and today I noticed that the region sliders in the tone curve panel are gone.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Wayne

Thanks Rich.,
That did it.
Wayne

Tone curve - please bring back sliders, Canon DPP software just as clumsy!

Please bring back sliders for the tone curve beta 4 in this respect is now just as awkward and clumsy to operate in this respect as Canon DPP!

You can change from parametric to point curve mode yourself with the lower-right icon in the tone curve.

Tone Curve Sliders Disappeared

My tone curve sliders disappeared in Lightroom 3 (exposure, recovery, fill light, blacks, brightness, saturation, vibrance). I have googled it and tried a few things with no luck. THanks in advance for your help! I am desperate to resolve this ASAP!

I just realized i was not missing my tone curve sliders. i was missing the basic panel. i restored it by going to Help--Search--Basic Panel and it popped up. RELIEF!

I am working in the Develop module of Lightroom 5 and have accidentally bumped a setting and lost the Basic menu and the option to retrieve it. "Tone curve" is directly under the tool bar now. How can I retrieve the "Basic" menu?

How can I retrieve the "Basic" menu on Lightroom 5? I accidentally bumped something while working in the Develop module of Lightroom 5, and now the Tone Curve menu is directly under the Tool Bar, with no option to click on "Basic."

Right-click on Tone Curve and choose basic again or press Ctrl+1 in Develop.
On Mac (Control-Click or Cmd+1)

LR4.1 - Tone Curve - how to adjust individual RGB channels?

Hi,
I am having trouble figuring out how to adjust the curve of individual RGB channels. I am assuming the LR4 Tone Curve works like the PS Curves dialog with the channel dropdown.
The LR4.1 Help says:
To make adjustments to individual points on the tone curve, choose an option from the Point Curve menu, click the Edit Point Curve button , and do any of the following:
Choose an option from the Channel pop-up menu. You can edit all three channels at once, or choose to edit the Red, Green, or Blue channel individually.
When I click the little icon in the lower right corner of the Tone Curve panel, the panel shrinks so that I don't see the Regions sliders. If I click again, they are visible again. I can't find where to select one of the three indvidual channels.
The Help refers to "the Point Curve menu." Where is the Point Curve menu? Is the Point Curve different from the Tone Curve?
If I right-click (Windows) in the curve dialog, the context menu has a Show Info option. I click it on/off and don't see any change or any info. Where should I be looking for info?
Thanks for any help here.
John

Good morning John,
The point curve is the one without the sliders. The adjustments for the individual channels are only available with
PV2012. You must be editing a file with PV2010 or 2003. When in PV2012 you will see " Channels: RGB" below the curve window. Click on the doule triangles following the RGB
to pick the individual channel.
HTH
Rich

Tone curve RGB

I am trying to alter individual RGB channels within the tone curve box, but I don't get a pop up dialoge box. I saw a mention of PV 2010 and PV 2003, but I don't know what these are, or if one can convert to them.

Look in the camera calibration panel and it will tell you. Alternatively, if you're seeing the current set of sliders in the basic panel (e.g. highlights, shadows, etc.) then that would confirm you're using PV2012.
Go to tone curve, click on the little curves button at the bottom, and you'll be in point curve mode. Click on the RGB button to choose a colour channel.
As you're on the web, I recommend searching for "process version Lightroom" to find out more about that side of things.
M

2012 Process Version Alters Exposure/Contrast/Tone Curve

In working with the LR4 beta, I've come across a couple odd results. I imported some image folders containing raw, tiff and jpeg. The images were updated to the 2012 Process Version on import. I noticed that I had not saved out the metadata on the raw files for earlier edits in LR3. I closed LR4, opened LR3, saved out the metadata, reopened LR4, read the metadata from the files and this, unsurprisingly, reverted them back to the 2010 Process Version. When I update the raw images to the 2012 Process Version, the Exposure is reduced by 1 stop and Contrast is set to -33. Additionally, a significant Tone Curve adjustment is made. No such alterations occur to tiff or jpeg files in toggling back and forth between 2010 and 2012.
Please advise.
Thanks.

Eric, I guess what I'm trying to figure out is if they aren't going to 'look' the same then why would that be. Further, if no changes to the file were made (i.e., exposure, recovery, curves, etc) then why would there be such a radical change to the image on updating to a new process version?
As I noted earlier, I don't recall that updating to the 2010PV from the prior made such a change to images. In fact I just tried it. I switched back to 2003, then to 2010 then to 2012. No change to the image going from 2003 to 2010. Big change going from either 2003 to 2012 or 2010 to 2012. To my way of thinking, if I take an image processed with the 2010PV and am happy with the way it looks (it's displayed on my website, I've printed and sold it, etc.) then I update to the 2012 PV I shouldn't have to re-edit the image to get the same 'look'. I understand that due to the different controls some of the positions of the sliders may be different. But the two images shouldn't 'look' different. Take another example. If I've got a set of images from a commercial shoot, have edited them in LR and provided to the client, then I update those images to the 2012PV in LR 4 and the resulting images aren't the same, I've got to spend time (and money) re-editing to get back to what I had before. Does that seem right? It sure doesn't to me. It seems, actually, the exact opposite of what should be.
In the screen grabs above, this is a marked change to the image. It's categorically not just a difference in slider/control positions to get the same 'look'. It's a completely different image with a completely different look. The file has been radically altered. To me, that shouldn't be the case.
EDIT: I guess we were posting at the same time, Eric. Sorry, I understand the explanation but it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Lost Sliders in Tone Curve Dialogue 3. & 3.2

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for