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Hello everyone!
I have a quick question about Lightroom Presets.
Could someone explain what presets are and how to use them?
Thanks!!Hi, @Virginia, welcome to the forums!
If you have used Lightroom much, you’ll know that making edits with sliders is one of the common things you do with Lightroom. You can also add keywords, edit the metadata and so on… Whenever you make an edit in Lightroom, it saves the instructions that you gave it, and applies them once you choose to “Export” the file to a
.jpgor.tiffile.A preset is a quick way to apply common edits. For example, if you almost always have to add 0.50 exposure compensation to your photos, and bump up the contrast a little, then you can create a preset that does just that. Now, instead of messing with the sliders, you can just click on your preset, and Presto! your edits are applied! You can make your preset more complicated too, you can set some default sharpening, saturation/vibrance, even WB changes, (although WB is usually not a good thing to add to a preset, because the white balance can vary greatly between shots.)
To create a preset, open a RAW file in the Develop module, then edit the picture with all the settings that you want to add to your preset. Once you’ve got it how you like it, click on the little “+” icon on left of your screen right beside the “Presets” category. (See Screenshot). Then you’ll need to name your preset, and check the boxes for all the edits that you made. (i.e. if you edited the exposure compensation and sharpening, then select the “Exposure” and “Sharpening” boxes. Once you’re done, click “Create”!
Now you open the “User Presets” arrow, and see your new preset! Just click on it to apply it to the current photo!
Hopefully that’s helpful enough to get you started! Don’t hesitate to ask any more questions you might have, we’re here to help! 🙂
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Ok! Thanks!! @buddingphotographer That is VERY helpful!! I do use Lightroom quite a bit but I have never really understood how the presets work. So thanks a lot! I think it will help speed up my post processing a good amount!
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