MLeeK
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you will find that if you start using the curve better you won't be needing to increase your vibrance.
I have already set my version of ACR/LR (grrrrrrrr... LR headaches) up to automatically apply the standard curve that I use and my basic raw sharpening. I do not adjust anything in the exposure, brightness, clarity, vibrance, saturation department. Only adjusting the black level which I have a standard of about 4. Once the curve is applied it fixes the flat look and those other settings are not needed. I have changed my parametric curve to high contrast.
All of those things are already done when I open the image in LR or ACR.
Then I use about 3 presets all of the time-one for wrestling, one for basketball and one for portraiture. Those adjust for the headaches each of those sports poses for me and the one for portraiture is a different curve and sharpening than what I use on everyday/journalistic images.
If I am working on a newborn or a particularly pesky wb problem then I adjust the HSL-mostly luminance.
I often correct for wide angle distortion when I use a wide angle because after all of these years I STILL haven't learned to be more careful of it. I adjust for vignetting on the lens that I have that I notice the vignette on. If I want a bit of a vignette I add it here too.
If I am creating black and white I do it here on the HSL tabs where I can control every aspect of how each color is converted.
If I have screwed up I'll adjust the exposure or brightness.
I adjust the white balance for most everything in raw. Skin tones I also adjust in PS because it's easier to nail them there. Except sports-which I only do WB in raw.
In short? I do just about everything in ACR/LR.
I have already set my version of ACR/LR (grrrrrrrr... LR headaches) up to automatically apply the standard curve that I use and my basic raw sharpening. I do not adjust anything in the exposure, brightness, clarity, vibrance, saturation department. Only adjusting the black level which I have a standard of about 4. Once the curve is applied it fixes the flat look and those other settings are not needed. I have changed my parametric curve to high contrast.
All of those things are already done when I open the image in LR or ACR.
Then I use about 3 presets all of the time-one for wrestling, one for basketball and one for portraiture. Those adjust for the headaches each of those sports poses for me and the one for portraiture is a different curve and sharpening than what I use on everyday/journalistic images.
If I am working on a newborn or a particularly pesky wb problem then I adjust the HSL-mostly luminance.
I often correct for wide angle distortion when I use a wide angle because after all of these years I STILL haven't learned to be more careful of it. I adjust for vignetting on the lens that I have that I notice the vignette on. If I want a bit of a vignette I add it here too.
If I am creating black and white I do it here on the HSL tabs where I can control every aspect of how each color is converted.
If I have screwed up I'll adjust the exposure or brightness.
I adjust the white balance for most everything in raw. Skin tones I also adjust in PS because it's easier to nail them there. Except sports-which I only do WB in raw.
In short? I do just about everything in ACR/LR.