Lightroom Desktop: How to "Enable Lens Corrections" by default

Good try, but this is LR Cloudy. If it was Classic, it would be spot on.

Cloudy did used to pick up defaults from Classic, but that changed in April 2018, so I'm not quite sure what might be going on here.

Maybe my understanding is wrong, but with the built-in lens profile automatically applied, does it matter if Enable Lens Correction is automatically checked or not?

Yes, potentially. For example, on one of my lenses, the built in lens correction fixes chromatic aberration and distortion, but a checkbox lens profile is needed to fix vignetting. If you click on "built in lens profile applied" then it tells you which fixes are included.

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that the built-in lens profiles don't always fix everything. But it still seems odd that Enable Lens Corrections is automatically enabled for some lenses....I wouldn't have expected that to be enabled at all.

Cloudy did used to pick up defaults from Classic, but that changed in April 2018, so I'm not quite sure what might be going on here.

On my system LR Desktop 3.1 is using the Lens Profile default settings I applied in LR Classic 9.1. Perhaps that only happens on initial installation of LR Desktop?

Maybe my understanding is wrong, but with the built-in lens profile automatically applied, does it matter if Enable Lens Correction is automatically checked or not?

Interesting question.

I have a Canon G9x MKII point & shoot camera that uses a built-in lens profile. Clicking the 'i' info icon it says distortion and chromatic aberration is applied, but no vignetting listed. However, from my testing vignetting correction is applied with 'Enable Profile Corrections' unchecked.

Sony camera lenses show built-in 'i' info for only chromatic aberration correction. However, 'Enable Profile Corrections' must be checked and a matching lens profile selected for Distortion and Vignetting correction to be applied.

Fuji and Olympus cameras show built-in 'i' info for only chromatic aberration and distortion, but no vignetting correction. However, just as with my Canon G9x MKII vignetting correction is applied with 'Enable Profile Corrections' unchecked.

So it isn't clear when it is appropriate (or not) to check 'Enable Profile Corrections' for cameras that use built-in lens profiles. However, it should be safe to assume when using a third-party non-OEM lens a matching profile needs to be provided by Adobe and 'Enable Profile Corrections' checked inside LR. So far I haven't found any statement or instructions from Adobe concerning this issue.NOTE: These observations were made using LR Classic 9.1. The behavior when using LR Desktop 3.1 may be different.

> On my system LR Desktop 3.1 is using the Lens Profile default settings I applied in LR Classic 9.1.

Interesting. Is it only the lens profile defaults, or all defaults? It was bug NMB-8388 when picking up camera raw defaults was dropped (actually June 2018, I guessed the date wrong), but perhaps the lens defaults weren't dropped at the same time.

Interesting. Is it only the lens profile defaults, or all defaults?

All of the default settings in LR Classic 9.1 are being applied in LR Desktop 3.1. If I change a default setting in LR Classic using ALT + Reset button and then 'Update to Current Settings' these settings are applied in LR Desktop 3.1 when I click on the three dots and select 'Reset to Original.' It appears LR Desktop's default settings are following changes made to the LR Classic's default settings real-time.

That should probably be reported as a separate bug then Todd. The last comment I'm aware of from the team on that was "we should prevent this until such a time as it can be controlled from within LrCC."

Maybe they thought differently after discussing how and why to correct this behavior. IMHO it makes no sense to have LR Classic and Desktop use different default settings. The primary issue is that currently you can't change the default settings from inside LR Desktop. If that was implemented should it also change the default settings inside LR Classic? I'll ping Rikk and Jeff for further investigation.

> The primary issue is that currently you can't change the default settings from inside LR Desktop

And that the defaults don't currently sync to the other devices. That's probably the bigger issue, as reset will then be different on different devices within the ecosystem.

And that the defaults don't currently sync to the other devices.

Agreed, that needs to be fixed as well.