I wonder if anyone else noticed the following 'Merge to HDR' oddities:
1. If you use 'Merge to HDR' (or 'Merge to Panorama'), Lightroom will generate XMP-files for all the source images, even if you have not checked that option in the Lightroom preferences.
2. If you use 'Auto Tone', Lightroom will set five sliders. However, only one of those sliders has anything to do with an attempt to automatically adjust the image: the 'Exposure' slider. The four other sliders, 'Highlights', 'Shadows', 'Whites' and 'Blacks' are always set to the same value (-100,+70,+15,-15). As a result, 'Auto Tone' doesn't usually give a very good result.
1. If you use 'Merge to HDR' (or 'Merge to Panorama'), Lightroom will generate XMP-files for all the source images, even if you have not checked that option in the Lightroom preferences.
2. If you use 'Auto Tone', Lightroom will set five sliders. However, only one of those sliders has anything to do with an attempt to automatically adjust the image: the 'Exposure' slider. The four other sliders, 'Highlights', 'Shadows', 'Whites' and 'Blacks' are always set to the same value (-100,+70,+15,-15). As a result, 'Auto Tone' doesn't usually give a very good result.