Import Develop settings - None vs. General Zeroed

[clee01l]

If I import images I have a choice of all my Develop Presets including the Lightroom Preset "General Zeroed" and a "None". You would think that "None" would not apply any Develop Settings or be the same as "General -Zeroed" where all the primary settings are set to Zero. But if I import a DNG with the Develop Setting set to "None", the image shows up in Develop (and I presume Library Mode) with settings already applied. The companion JPEG comes in with the setting 'zeroed'. Why is this and can these 'default' settings be changed? If they can be changed, where do I do this?

If I import a combination of DNG and JPG from my camera card, which setting should I use? A DNG with Zeroed develop settings looks flat as you might expect. This is not a bad thing and for me often makes a good starting point.

 

[Brad Snyder]

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I But if I import a DNG with the Develop Setting set to "None", the image shows up in Develop (and I presume Library Mode) with settings already applied.

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None means to apply the default setting. The factory Adobe default setting includes, the latest ACR camera version calibration rendering for the subject camera, Brightness at 5', Blacks at 5, Contrast at 25, Sharpening at 25, 1.',25,', Color NR at 25. Are those the settings you're seeing applied? Zeroed means to use the same rendering with those (and all) sliders set to zero.

Note that those values are just arbitrary positions of the slider for the default rendering, and are positioned thus to allow headroom for negative adjustment.

You can experiment with changed defaults, by pressing and holding Shift or Alt in the Develop module, and noting that the Reset buttons morphs to 'Set Default...' which allows you to change the default rendering by changing slider adjustments and camera calibrations(including restoring the default to factory settings), and 'Reset(Adobe)', which resets the photo to the factory default.

To be honest I'm not sure what happens when you import DNG+JPG, but I'm guessing the DNG has the import preset applied and the JPG comes in zeroed. Therefore, I'd establish a Develop Preset to apply to all DNG images at import to tweak them to your desired starting point.