Sharing default develop settings in LR2

I have set up a bunch of default develop settings per camera model and ISO on my laptop. I would like to share these settings with my desktop. Where do I find the settings files?
Thanks
Nick

If Auto Sync is enabled and more than one image selected, any editing done to one of the photos will be done simultaneously to all the selected photos. If only a single photo is selected, it will be the only one affected. Thus, moving to a new photo that was not selected together with the previous one it will open with the default settings. Auto Sync can be enabled when multiple photos are selected either from the Settings menu or by raising the toggle switch on the Sync button at the bottom of the right-side Develop panel.
"Recently, LR sometimes opens with the settings I used in the last session, even though I have closed LR in the interim."
This is as it should be. LR should always return to the editing done in an earlier session because every edit is immediately recorded and saved in the catalog database and the old edits are reapplied to the image preview every time it is opened

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I have none ticked in Lightroom.
But when images come in, I have 50+ on the brightness.
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magicgenie wrote:
And we don't have ANY option to have RAW come though without any changes?
You can set the defaults to whatever you want - all zeros even (but it'll look pretty bad).
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Comments and advice welcome...
Landscape, ISO 100-200, 24-105 Lens
CameraProfile = "Adobe Standard",
Clarity = 20,
ColorNoiseReduction = 15,
ColorNoiseReductionDetail = 80,
Contrast = 25,
EnableCalibration = true,
EnableDetail = true,
EnableLensCorrections = true,
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LensProfileDigest = "0387279C5E7139287596C051056DCFAF",
LensProfileDistortionScale = 0,
LensProfileEnable = 1,
LensProfileFilename = "Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM) - RAW.lcp",
LensProfileName = "Adobe (Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM)",
LensProfileVignettingScale = 100,
LuminanceNoiseReductionContrast = 50,
LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail = 70,
LuminanceSmoothing = 10,
ProcessVersion = "5.7",
Saturation = 5,
SharpenDetail = 80,
SharpenEdgeMasking = 25,
SharpenRadius = 0.8,
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Vibrance = 20
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CameraProfile = "Adobe Standard",
Clarity = 20,
ColorNoiseReduction = 20,
ColorNoiseReductionDetail = 60,
EnableCalibration = true,
EnableDetail = true,
EnableLensCorrections = true,
LensProfileChromaticAberrationScale = 100,
LensProfileDigest = "0387279C5E7139287596C051056DCFAF",
LensProfileDistortionScale = 0,
LensProfileEnable = 1,
LensProfileFilename = "Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM) - RAW.lcp",
LensProfileName = "Adobe (Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM)",
LensProfileVignettingScale = 100,
LuminanceNoiseReductionContrast = 25,
LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail = 65,
LuminanceSmoothing = 15,
ProcessVersion = "5.7",
Saturation = 10,
SharpenDetail = 40,
SharpenEdgeMasking = 35,
SharpenRadius = 1.0,
Sharpness = 40,
Vibrance = 20,
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CameraProfile = "Adobe Standard",
Clarity = 10,
ColorNoiseReduction = 20,
ColorNoiseReductionDetail = 60,
EnableCalibration = true,
EnableDetail = true,
EnableLensCorrections = true,
LensProfileChromaticAberrationScale = 100,
LensProfileDigest = "0387279C5E7139287596C051056DCFAF",
LensProfileDistortionScale = 0,
LensProfileEnable = 1,
LensProfileFilename = "Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM) - RAW.lcp",
LensProfileName = "Adobe (Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM)",
LensProfileVignettingScale = 100,
LuminanceNoiseReductionContrast = 25,
LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail = 60,
LuminanceSmoothing = 15,
ProcessVersion = "5.7",
Saturation = 5,
SharpenDetail = 40,
SharpenEdgeMasking = 30,
SharpenRadius = 1.4,
Sharpness = 35,
Vibrance = 20,
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Ludovico Perfetto.

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Are you 100% sure the luminance noise reduction algorithm is tailored to each specific camera model, in Lightroom (and ACR) I mean?
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1:1 (100%) View
DPP Sharpening = 3 out of 10, LR Sharpening = 40, .8, 40, 0
(Click on image to see full-size.)
Message was edited by: trshaner Added info on hot pixel removal

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