Photoshop CS3 Beta Special Report: Individual image auto-correction gone

Several users are lamenting the apparent omission in CS3 beta of a feature extant in Photoshop CS2 that allowed individual auto-adjustments for images brought into Camera RAW.

As described by Steve Barry, a poster to Adobe's forums:

"In the old version of Camera RAW, you could create presets which individually applied auto corrections and then apply them to images in Bridge i.e. auto exposure only. This was one feature which set Camera RAW apart from all the other RAW processors, along with its tie to Bridge.

"Many images benefit from auto exposure only, some benefit from auto exposure, brightness and contrast, but not shadow (as an example, dance floor shots at a wedding, where you don't want to bring back much shadow detail) and other combinations.

"With experience, you could look at an image in Bridge and apply the proper individual auto correction without opening Camera RAW. That ability has been lost in the new version of Camera Raw and Lightroom."

Index:

• "Program error" messages -- fixes
• Cropping tool/rotation bug
• Brush size indicator not displayed when running in Intel-native mode -- workaround
• CS2/CS3 launching and opening discrepancies (images open in wrong app)
• Highlights from FAQ
• Individual image auto-correction gone
• Installation problems: fix
• Installation volume confusion
• Lightroom/CS2/CS3 interaction
• PowerPC plug-ins will not work on Intel-based Macs unless launched in Rosetta
• Release notes
• Serial number rejection, workarounds
• When the beta expires

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