I have been working with AutoEnhance in 3.3 on a Macbook Air with Mountain Lion with over 2000 photos and think it works very well. Is there anyway that I could add ~ 50% Definition and a specific Edge Sharpening set of values so clicking the Auto Enhance would carry it out in just one click?
I find that the AE gets quite close to the look I want and use of Highlights and Shadows and the use of either of the auto buttons in curves on a per photo basis gets me very close for the majority of my needs.
Any comments would be most helpful.
Also a neat and easy way of getting a soft focus effect? I find iPhoto edge our not very good and using the blur brush applying blur to whole image and then using the brush in erasure mode works but is rather clumsy - Picasa does it much better! Again any suggections very welcome.
Gordon,
To modify Auto Enhance, apply it to an image, add whatever else you want, then save that as a new Effect. Open the Effect Presets editor and put it in the #1 position, currently occupied by “Auto Enhance”. If memory serves, you don’t even have to name it Auto Enhance, but I could be wrong. I’m quite sure it does have to be in that #1 position though.
For the soft focus, you basically found the only way — apply the blur to the entire image and brush it out.
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Joseph,
Thanks for your quick reply.
I have arrived at a saved preset which has all the Auto Enhance effects plus the values I wanted for Definition and Edge Sharpening.
I have placed this at the top - i.e. above the Auto Enhance but when I click on the Auto Enhance button top right in Adjustments pane I still get the original Auto Enhance (without my mods.)
I have tried renaming the new saved preset as Auto Enhance and re labled the original as Auto Enhance Original but this has made no difference.
If instead I go through the Effects button and select my new AE all works as expected and if I go through Photos and Add Effect to select the new AE then i can apply to batches.
Any idea as to how I modify the AE button at the top right of the Adjustments pane to get it to fall in line?
Gordonhbm
Oh shoot, it appears that this changed then. We were able to do this before. I just tested myself and saw the same thing you did; I could not get the Auto Enhance button to use anything but its own default settings.
Sorry about that. It used to work!
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Joseph,
Thanks for your help. Wish we could get that feature back! I wonder if it is buried somewhere and perhaps somebody else has a suggestion?
Gordonhbm