Sharing color settings between Photoshop or Lightroom

Okay, I'll admit it! I'm partially red-green color-blind. It's quite common in males actually, so it's not that unusual. However, it does make it tricky while color-correcting skin-tones. I work for a wedding photography and cinematography company in Vancouver and have made a deal with the photographer --who also happens to be the owner of the company-- that him and I would collaborate on the color correction side of things. This is useful not only for my impairment, but also from a stylistic point of view.
Now here's the problem: He has never touched Premiere or After Effects. Now instead of going through step-by-step with him, and delivering hours of footage to him on a hard drive, and having to relink all the proxies, I figured it would make a lot more sense to give him a freeze-frame that he could edit himself. Like many small businesses in this industry, we edit out of our own homes, so driving from place to place is not only inconvenient, it's also unfriendly to the environment.
So I was mainly curious if there were a way for him to edit the freeze-frame in Lightroom or Photoshop, and then somehow export the settings so that I could import them back into Premiere. I know there are many similar tools such as RGB Curves that would be easier for him to use. Or does someone have another idea that might make this workflow more efficient? Wedding season will be starting soon to speed up turn-around before it's too late.
Thank you in advance!

I know you'll be shocked at this ... but over the years I've worked with a certain number of my pro stills peers who were perhaps a little set in ways that were ... um ... intractably set in them but shall we say, intriguingly unique? I'm sure this comes as such a difficult concept to grasp!
One of the problems that came in with digital was the concept that "we" can fix anything in post. White balance? Why bother ... simple adjustment in Photoshop! And this was something that was a nightmare when the only options in-cam were 8-bit Jpeg or Tiff files. So ... RAW got into the cameras and Lightroom and you could easily tweak entire batches in Lr ... again, why worry about WB in-cam?
Because ... it made post much faster and more accurate by getting into a much closer value on "loading" into Lr. After you've learned how to WB your camera manually and can do this quickly without even taking any gray cells ... it's so much faster over-all than "fixing" later.
Now ... take someone who thinks of usable color as an annoyance in shooting so it's a "fix in post" thing for ... something "acceptable" ... shall we say? Give them a DSLR that takes video, and voila ... we fix that in post also, right?
Oh my Heavens that's ... BAD. Because that person also will find making sure they have dead-on exposure a COMPLETE pain & waste of time. So the editor/colorist gets (typically) WAY under-exposed & way-off color video clips to match to the still images. DSLR video is far too "thin" in data-bits to bend much or it just completely breaks, totally different than DSLR still images these days. And you have to bend that stuff a LONG ways to look half-matching the stills!
So ... if you can't get this dude to modify procedures based on the absolute technical needs of producing professional work in video as well as stills, you have a difficult situation. And all my sympathies. I have my partner ... who I also happen to have been married to 40 years this June ... who 1) doesn't like to have to think while shooting and 2) has her ways to get good stills down pat without thinking. How to get new patterns built in? Well ... how about spending 3-4 sessions of an hour or more simply practicing the change-over from stills/video/stills/video? It's the kind of thing I do ... however ... chance of her actually practicing like that are not something I'm gonna hold my breath waiting for. Sigh. So ... she's done a bit, been disappointed ... and just doesn't do much with it. Which could help us a lot. Eventually, I'll move her along. Wish it wasn't such a hard slug.
Neil

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