Rewrite presets for Lightroom 4?

Since the sliders have changed in the Develop module of Lightroom 4, will some of my existing presets need to be changed in order to work with the new processing version?

Well, to be a bit more precise, yes you'll need to redo any presets that pacifically use the new PV 2012 controls...but if you have presets with saved subsets that are NOT part of PV 2012, no…those will keep working.
So if you have sharpening and noise reduction presets, the old ones will work. Same deal for HSL/Grayscale, Split Tone,and Effects. If any of the presets are using the tone controls in Basic or the Curves, yes, you'll prolly need to change them. Clarity in PV 2012 is also different (about 2x stronger with reduced halos). But Vibrance and Saturation are the same.

Similar Messages

Downloading the LR-plugin "presets for lightroom", which I bought before.

Hi I bought the plugin "presets for lightroom", and I can't find a file or a folder in my "download-folder" for installing after with lightroom. How may I download the plugin?

Thank you. No I was expecting to have some kind of reply to my inquiry. Maybe its in the 8 - 10 day process, but I would think there would have been some kind of notification.
I'll give that I try though. Pretty frustrated experience, so I especially appreciate your help.
Joyce

Frame presets for lightroom

hi!
i have a couple of photos i want to print in square format. somehow the format seems to g obetter with frames.
does anyone of you know if there are frame presets for lightroom available?
i am looking for polaroid frames, negative frames etc. all this retro stuff.
help ver muc appreachiated.
thanks
jens

thanks for the answer.
didnt think of hat.
so i just would need to get some high res frame images and convert them to .png with a transparent middle.
i can understand that lightroom doesnt support this as it is not a professional feature but it still would be nice.
i want to print lots of square format polaroid photos but printing just square format without any frame doesnt really do the trick.
thanks for your help. it woud have been nice to have function within to be able to vary frame size but i guess i should be happy that there is a way without leaving lightroom.
it is still in the morning and i am not 100% getting it though. would the framesize be affected by the resolution of the image or would it scale relatively always having the same size but varying in resolution and being interpolated?
thanks
jens

What are some of your favorite presets for lightroom? Especially black & white?

What are some of your favorite presets for lightroom? I havent found a b&w that I like yet, i guess its personal preference. Any suggestions would be great

A couple of points
- What are your criteria for liking a b&w preset?
- No b&w preset suits every image
Also, have you tried Silver Efex Pro?

Presets for Lightroom datei zxp entpacken

Hallo Leute, ich habe Presets for Lightroom bei adobe add-ons online gekauft... nun habe ich die Datei als zxp und kann sie nicht entpacken. Habe den extension manager probiert...etc. Gibt es die Datei als normal gepackte Datei zum entpacken? Ich benutze einen imac. Die Creative Cloud habe ich nach dem Kauf installiert. War das der Fehler? Beim Kauf wurde die Datei nicht in meinen Downloadordner heruntergeladen. Danach habe ich sie als zxp heruntergeladen... Ich bin völlig abgenervt.
Danke im voraus...

Hi,
At this time Lightroom does not support Exchange. We are working with the Lightroom team to enable support for Exchange in Lightroom, but that this time there is no ETA.
Rick

How do I load downloaded presets for lightroom to the program?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8zhHE-lCo&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list= PLA2CDEF822A5C2043
Tried following this video, but my finder isn't the same...I am a new MAC user. I would appreciate any help!

You should probaboy post Lightroom questions on Adobe's Lightroom forums: http://www.adobeforums.com

LR4.1 preset for sharpening darkens pictures

Hello,
the Adobe presets delivered with LR4 for sharpening include a command line which forces a switch to the new process engine "2012" or ProcessVersion = "6.7". I do not understand why Adobe allows a general preset to include a process version change command.
As a result, these sharpening presets can not be used on photos from an older LR3.x catalog without affecting the exposure or brightness - if you do, the picture exposure or brightness or whatever is set to lower settings, the histogram shows a darkening of about 2/3 aperture. Unfortunately, as the exposure changes, no slider or number value of the exposure, brightness etc. do change - very inconsistent.
In case you would choose to develop an older photo in LR4.1 and first use the upate icon button right of the picture to update the photo to process version 2012, then the picture will convert without changes in exposure (to the new process version) and then, the sharpening preset will not alter the exposure.
Also, it is hard to understand that the command line in the preset has a different result compared to the update button.
Presets seem to be dependent on certain process versions. No consideration is visible in the software for upgrade of change management of presets vs. process versions. A hard switch by command line does not to the job - this command line should not be in the preset. OR - the presets have to be named "LR4.1 presets only".
I consider this behaviour to be a bug or nonconformity of the software.
Mostly confused. I will have to manage all manually, with a catalog of approx. 35.000 pictures.
Any resolution to this?
Gerd

There are a number of LR4 Develop presets That apply PV2012 without doing the develop conversion process. This sure looks like a bug to me!
I agree with Rob that there should be a "warning" popup and proper conversion if you choose to proceed.
You can submit a bug report here:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
For now your easiest solution is to create your own develop presets, or copy LR3's presets by 'Import' into a 'New Folder' titled 'LR3 Presets inside the LR4 Develop module 'Presets' panel.
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/04/updating-develop-presets-for-lightroom-4-2 .html
I just tried it on my Windows 7 LR4.1 and the LR3 presets work fine in LR4. It looks like they also include PV2010 as part of the LR3 preset, so make sure you don't use them with any LR4 PV2012 processed images. LR3 must be installed (or reinstalled) to 'Import' the LR3 develop presets into LR4.
Here's the path on Windows 7 to 'Import' the LR3 presets inside LR4's Develop module:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets\Lightroom Presets
The new 'LR3 Presets' folder will also show up in LR3's Develop preset panel. Simply ignore it if you still use LR3, but don't delete the folder.

Lightroom presets for ACR

Hi - I do not have LR but have ACR (CS5) and I want to use the presets that come with LR. If I had lightroom I could just save the image and open it in ACR and save the preset - however is there somewhere one can purchase these same presets for ACR if one does not have LR?
Thanks

I am not aware of any such system available.

How can I save my downloaded OnOne Presets in Lightroom 4 for use in all of my catalogues?

Downloaded and imported these presets into Lightroom, User PRESETS but they ONLY WORK with ONE catalogue (the one I downloaded them into). How can I save them so that I can continually use them in ALL of my catalogues (future and past)? This is driving me crazy (had the same problem with LR3). Read all the manuals I could find and online help but there was nothing about this.
P.S. Also have a similar problem when trying to save my "edited watermarks". Have to repeat this every time I export my photos.

In Preferences/Presets/ Uncheck Store Presets with catalog.
Frans

GPU notes for Lightroom CC (2015)

Hi everyone,
I wanted to share some additional information regarding GPU support in Lr CC.
Lr can now use graphics processors (GPUs) to accelerate interactive image editing in Develop. A big reason that we started here is the recent development and increased availability of high-res displays, such as 4K and 5K monitors. To give you some numbers: a standard HD screen is 2 megapixels (MP), a MacBook Retina Pro 15" is 5 MP, a 4K display is 8 MP, and a 5K display is a whopping 15 MP. This means on a 4K display we need to render and display 4 times as many pixels as on a standard HD display. Using the GPU can provide a significant speedup (10x or more) on high-res displays. The bigger the screen, the bigger the win.
For example, on my test system with a 4K display, adjusting the White Balance and Exposure sliders in Lightroom 5.7 (without GPU support) is about 5 frames/second -- manageable, but choppy and hard to control. The same sliders in Lightroom 6.0 now run smoothly at 60 FPS.
So why doesn't everything feel faster?
Well, GPUs can be enormously helpful in speeding up many tasks. But they're complex and involve some tradeoffs, which I'd like to take a moment to explain.
First, rewriting software to take full advantage of GPUs is a lot of work and takes time. Especially for software like Lightroom, which offers a rich feature set developed over many years and release versions. So the first tradeoff is that, for this particular version of Lightroom, we weren't able to take advantage of the GPU to speed up everything. Given our limited time, we needed to pick and choose specific areas of Lightroom to optimize. The area that I started with was interactive image editing in Develop, and even then, I didn't manage to speed up everything yet (more on this later).
Second, GPUs are marvelous at high-speed computation, but there's some overhead. For example, it takes time to get data from the main processor (CPU) over to the GPU. In the case of high-res images and big screens, that can take a LOT of time. This means that some operations may actually take longer when using the GPU, such as the time to load the full-resolution image, and the time to switch from one image to another.
Third, GPUs aren't best for everything. For example, decompressing sequential bits of data from a file -- like most raw files, for instance -- sees little to no benefit from a GPU implementation.
Fourth, Lightroom has a sophisticated raw processing pipeline (such as tone mapping HDR images with Highlights and Shadows), and running this efficiently on a GPU requires a fairly powerful GPU. Cards that may work with in the Photoshop app itself may not necessarily work with Lightroom. While cards that are 4 to 5 years old may technically work, they may provide little to no benefit over the regular CPU when processing images in Lr, and in some cases may be slower. Higher-end GPUs from the last 2 to 3 years should work better.
So let's clear up what's currently GPU accelerated in Lr CC and what's not:
First of all, Develop is the only module that currently has GPU acceleration whatsoever. This means that other functions and modules, such as Library, Export, and Quick Develop, do not use the GPU (performance should be the same for those functions regardless of whether you have GPU enabled or disabled in the prefs).
Within Develop, most image editing controls have full GPU acceleration, including the basic and tone panel, panning and zooming, crop and straighten, lens corrections, gradients, and radial filter. Some controls, such as local brush adjustments and spot clone/heal, do not -- at least, not yet.
While the above description may be disappointing to some of you, let's be clear: This is the beginning of the GPU story for Lightroom, not the end. The vision here is to expand our use of the GPU and other technologies over time to improve performance. I know that many photographers have been asking us for improved performance for a long time, and we're trying to respond to that. Please understand this is a big step in that direction, but it's just the first step. The rest of it will take some time.
Summary:
1. GPU support is currently available in Develop only.
2. Most (but not all) Develop controls benefit from GPU acceleration.
3. Using the GPU involves some overhead (there's no free lunch). This may make some operations take longer, such as image-to-image switching or zooming to 1:1. Newer GPUs and computer systems minimize this overhead.
4. The GPU performance improvement in Develop is more noticeable on higher-resolution displays such as 4K. The bigger the display, the bigger the win.
5. Prefer newer GPUs (faster models within the last 3 years). Lightroom may technically work on older GPUs (4 to 5 years old) but likely will not benefit much. At least 1 GB of GPU memory. 2 GB is better.
6. We're currently investigating using GPUs and other technologies to improve performance in Develop and other areas of the app going forward.
The above notes also apply to Camera Raw 9.0 for Photoshop/Bridge CC.
Eric Chan
Camera Raw Engineer

I posted the following information on the Luminous Landscape forum (GPU used in Develop but not Library?) in response to comments you made there.
I am very puzzled by the extremely blurry image in the second screen capture when the GPU is enabled.
OS X (10.9.5)
Hardware configuration:
   MacPro (late 2013)
   AMD FirePro D300 2048 MB
   Apple Cinema Display 1920 x 1200
   16 GB RAM
   1 TB SSD
Test file: Nikon D800 NEF, 50 MB
(0) open the Develop module
(1) select a different NEF file and zoom to 1:1
(2) clear the ACR cache
(3) select the test file
(4) take 3 screenshots to illustrate the 3 display states (the first one is hard to capture)
(5) select another image
(6) same 3 states are present
(7) return to the test file and the same 3 display states are present
   Why isn’t the ACR cache coming into play in step 7?
If I repeat this process with the GPU disabled the image is displayed without the intermediate states.
I have attached the 3 screenshots mentioned in step (4).

Metadata presets in lightroom 2

I have created my own preset for metadata. Now how do I make it the default. Every time I switch to a new photo the "none" preset shows up. I would like my preset to be the one. Is there a way to make this possible?

thanks. It worked quite well and I added another idea that works too.
When I set up the metadata template I wanted for all my photos, I went to the base file of all my photos in Lightroom, selected all and then opened the preset I wanted in the presets on the right hand side. It then asked me if I wanted to apply the template too all. Select yes to all and now you have the preset applied to all the photos in lightroom.
Reijo

Using Presets for Printing Panoramas

I have created a generic preset for printing panoramas on an Epson 4900 connected to a Mac with OS 10.8.4. Using the Epson printer driver's Page Setup via Lightroom 5, I reset the length of the panorama for each print and then update the Lightroom preset. Everything else in the preset is correct for my prints (paper, profiles, etc.).
I have, however, periodically had the problem that even after resetting the print length in the driver and updating the generic panorama preset, that the print is the wrong length (either too long or too short) even though all indications are that everything is set correctly (see below). This can occur even if I shutdown and restart Lightroom (I have also had this problem in LR4).
I would like to known how to correctly set up a panorama so paper is not wasted due to an incorrect length.
The following items appear to be set correctly:
(1) Printer Driver Page Setup paper size
(2) The Lightroom Preset for the generic panorama (Both the print size and paper size. I looked at the text of the preset settings via TextEdit) I note that there is binary information at the bottom of the Lightroom preset. Is that being correctly updated?
(3) The print display in Lightroom (the image correctly fills the print template which is of the correct size)
(4) The print cell size in Lightroom is the size I have set in the printer driver
The different sized panorams were printed on different days and the printer was turned off between those days. Cut sheet prints were also printed in between the panorams.
One panorama was 8 feet long but it was truncated at 39 inches twice before it printed correctly (after I restarted Lightroom but not the printer). The other was correctly printed 58 inches long but on 8 feet of paper (which was blank after the image).
I find it hard to believe the printer is remembering an old size (even after being powered off) but if Lightroom is not sending new information, I suppose that is possible.
Allyn

Hi Venu,
Don't know about best-practice, but you can do this by using the file adapter, using the "Run Operating System Command" to execute a print command on the file.
The file can be formatted in a mapping program.
Regards,
Bill

Import external XMP as preset into lightroom

Hello,
working as photojournalist i get xmp-files for every job i do from the editorial office. Once the pictures are made, i have to add these (basic)xmp to the pictures otherwise i won`t get it into the system of the publishing companies. Until know i safe the XMP-files into the Metadata template folder and add them directly using the import app of Bridge CS3. Now i changed to CS6 and LR5 and it would be much easier to add these XMP during the import of LR. I tried, i searched, but it seems to be i`m to dumb – i don`t find a posibility to get these XMP`s as a metadata-preset into Lightroom!
Is there a posibility?
Kind regards, Tobias

Using Finder/Explorer, put the xmp file in the same folder as a picture that isn't in Lightroom and change its filename to match that picture. Import the picture into Lightroom, which should pick up the xmp file's metadata, and save a metadata preset or sync the metadata to other pictures.

Presets for workflow

Hi, got deleted from Scott Kelby's site because I posted this? Got to wonder. Anyway, do any of you understand what I'm trying to say?
Lightroom presets for workflow. A basic starting point. First you will need your monitor calibrated. Lightroom 2. Photoshop CS3 or newer.
After working with Lightroom for about two weeks now. I found that there is a learning curve to working with develop settings and trying to find the best image. I took this up, because I was getting kind of flat looking results with lightroom only. Figured I needed a good starting base to work from.
Since I already had CS3, I took the raw file from lightroom and edited it to CS3 threw edit export. Then using curves in CS3, I used Scott Kelby's Method of working darks, mid-tones and highlights. From there I made any final tweaks opening up curves again.
Next saved the image and went back to lightroom 2. where it showed up as a PSD file. Next, I made a virtual copy of the (raw file) original and tried to match the same exposure, colour, contrast, etc. of the psd using lightroom. Making these adjustments in the develop module, mostly using Basic and Tone curves. After getting as close as possible to the settings I had made in curves with CS3 (psd file), I used the virtual copied clone file in lightroom to make a preset.
I called this preset "CS3 snap" and use it as my base starting point in lightroom. Works pretty good and I make tweaks from there when working with a new image. I think there is room for other presets in areas like hard backlight and Black N White.
Would like to know how other lightroom users are getting consistant results. Improving processes, techniques. Those of you who leave their email, I'll send you the preset free. I would send my blog link, but am afraid I might get deleted as spam. Would like to know how it works for others. Jon L

Honestly, does anyone here understand what I'm trying to say?
First, export a raw or dng file to CS3
Then make a good image in CS3-the best you can.
Next save it in PSD format, by just clicking the save button. This will take the changes back to lightroom.
Then, make another virtual copy of the original raw file.
Go and try and get the image to match, by using lightrooms setting sliders.
Once you have an a close match, save as a preset. One for standard images, and one for
backlight images.
This should make every image easier to fine tune. You will have to do this for every camera you own. Jon

User Presets for Exporting Files

I want to create a user preset for exporting full size jpegs to a folder to be named later. Whenever I try and save it Lightroom defaults to email. How can I resolve this?
Here are my settings:
Lightroom 4.2
export to hard drive
choose folder later
jpeg format
Adobe RGB
quality=95
Thanks

So, where is the emailing part coming in? Is it not being saved with 'Hard Disk' as the export service ('Export To' field in Export Dialog Box). Or is it being saved OK, but then when you go to use it the problem presents.
Feel free to post the contents of the associated .lrtemplate file in the body of your next post. (hint: 'Show Lightroom Presets Folder' button in Lr preferences dialog box).

Rewrite presets for Lightroom 4?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for