Presets with "Relative" Adjustments?

Is there a way to create a Develop Preset or an Export in LightRoom that does "Relative Adjustments"?
For example, let's say I have edited a whole folder full of RAW images in LR. They look great on my monitor, but will probably look a bit flat and lifeless in print, so they will need some adjustments for printing to a specific printer/paper combination. I know I could soft proof each image individually, make manual adjustments, etc, but that is very time consuming. I'd love it if I could apply "generic adjustments" to a selected images for printing to a specific printer/paper combination. I know it wouldn't be perfect, but similar adjustments are often necessary when printing. I wouldn't want this preset to OVERWRITE my previous edits—I'd want the preset to MODIFY my settings in relative terms. I'd probably add a little brightness, contrast and maybe some saturation to compensate for the flatter look of a printed image.
Is this doable in LR? If not, does anybody have workaround that will accomplish the same thing?
Thanks,
Lou

Hi Lou,
Gazoo will certainly do relative adjustments (and presets..), but if your aim is to make adjustments just for the sake of an exported copy (e.g. for print), then consider Exportant instead - it can make Lr adjustments that impact the exported file only (not the source file):
robcole.com - Exportant
PS - both plugins are free, and written by me.
Rob

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Hi there,
the new Lightroom 4 beta is great and has some really good improvements inside (e.g. the "new" shadows/highlight or the new possibilities in the adjustment brush).
But what I really miss is the possibility to make relative adjustments in the Develop Module. Primary this is useful in presets to make steps of correction. I can do very limited relative adjustments for single parameters partially in the Library Module, but it goes not far enough and I can not save any preset from that or even combinations of adjustments.
An Example:
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If they've been discussed at length, I'm surprised not to see them. Much has been provided that I would have guessed has received less requests.
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So what do you think might be the problem, Dorin?
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This issue is going to affect my business in a major way.
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Is there any way to copy a photo with Lightroom adjustments without making a separate copy?

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I installed Photoshop CC (2014) yesterday through the Creative Cloud app. Now, when in Lightroom when I go to "edit in"and select Photoshop CC (2014) and click on "edit copy with Lightroom adjustments", it opens Photoshop CC (2014) but my photo doesn't s

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the words i was thinking of was "render in Lightroom".
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Lightroom 4 - Moving Between Lightroom 4 and Photoshop | Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 | Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-5/lightroom-5-mov ing-between-lightroom-and-photoshop/
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Lightroom has a hard time with local adjustments:

Local adjustments: Spotting / Cloning / Healing Brush, Adjustmenst Brush, Graduated filter
I posted the piece below as a response to thaehn’s post “Lightroom freezes on Dust Spot Removal” but I thought the topic is important enough to warrant its own post.
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My observation though is that it's not a true "freezing", because if I wait long enough LR starts working again. So when using these tools, LR gets extremely busy und just doesn't have enough resources left to respond to further commands right away - but it "stores" the comands and acts on them eventually.
If I turn on my task manager I observe the following when using these tools: the CPU gets extremely busy (i.e. the green bar is at 100%) while the RAM usage is high but not to the max. The "freezes" occur when and as long the CPU works at 100%. If the CPU is below 100% LR responds sluggish and the response is normal again when eventually the CPU usage is at 0%.
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I am not a software or hardware specialist, so the following observations are somewhat subjective and not really quantifiable.
In Photoshop I observed a similar behaviour (although never as bad) when working on files of 500 MB and above. It was particularly bad when working on photos residing on my external RAID 1 hard drive. I had a hunch that it might have to do with the reading and writing from a drive that a) is external and b) is in RAID 1. It is known that RAID 1 has slower writing (and also reading) speeds than RAID 0 (or no RAID at all). So in Photoshop I managed to cut down on the unresponsiveness by moving large files to my internal RAID 0 hard drive and working from there.
From this experience I come to the assumption that some of the "busy-ness" in LR (or of the CPU) is due to reading/writing to/from the hard drive.
To test this assumption for LR, I moved some photos from my external (RAID 1) to my internal (RAID 0) hard drive and did some "intensive" work: first some "fancy" lens correction, then a few grad filters, and a "final touch" with the adjustment brush. I thought that LR could handle these tasks somewhat better when the photos were on the internal drive - so some of the "sluggishness" or " freezing" is due to the reading/writing from/to the hard drive.
Acually I cannot explain why this should be so: In my naivete I thought LR writes everything only into the catalog (?), that - by the way - is on my internal RAID 0 drive.
I think it would be good if Adobe could look into this and maybe give us some recommendations, just as they do for Photoshop by saying that the scratch disk should be on a different drive than Photoshop.
But it seems also that local adjustments - spotting, adj. brush. etc - are a very high "number-crunching" business for LR - independent of where the photo is located on the drive. (Interestingly the grad filter is not as bad as the adjustment brush). The clone-tool in Photoshop hardly registers on my CPU and if at all only with a very short spike, while the clone tool in LR sends the CPU through the roof for 10 to 30 seconds- even when the photo in question is on the internal drive.
I'm sure loots of people will now tell me that this is due to the difference between pixel-based adjustment and non-pixel-based ones. OK, I acknowledge that. But still ...
It seems some guys are still in denial about this (or maybe they have two quad processors and 16 GB of RAM):
But it's a fact: LR has a hard time with localized adjustments. There must be by now 100's of complaints to that respect, and that can't be dismissed by blaming it on the hardware specs alone.
I just hope Adobe is working on that.
LR3 is a fantastic program that I would not want to work without. Often I have to work on a lot of photos with a very tight deadline. Without LR it would be impossible.
Thank you,
ErnstK

You are right Samoreen.
I posted my above message in July 2010 and this topic has been re-opened by Adobe under the thread Lightroom 3.3 Performance Feedback
I think it would be best if everybody would post their concerns only under this thread.
Otherwise we'd have two different threads for the same issue.
So let's close this one here.
WW

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I'm looking for some advice
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We have a customer who has an SE relational database with Apex for transaction processing. They require reporting functionality and are debating whether to buy BI SE One or BI EE; they will not buy the enteprise edition database though.
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MentatYP wrote:
Yeah, I have 1 gigantic catalog so it makes sense for me to keep presets with the catalog file for backup purposes.
I disagee. You've already discovered that Web Galleries remain in the default location when you use "Store Presets with Catalog", and there are other things as well which remain in the default location. So if you want to backup your entire Lightroom environment, including settings, now you have to backup not only the Lightroom Settings folder adjacent to the catalog, but also the Lightroom folder in the appdata area of your user profile. It's far simpler to leave everything in the default location (cos you still have to back it up, right), than mess about with backing up partial sets of settings.
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