Here’s how they describe my new collection (and it’s more than just presets): 

“ON1 has partnered with world-renowned photographer Scott Kelby to bring you his new Signature Bundle! It’s an ON1-exclusive featuring over 70 of his best ON1 presets, 20 beautiful textures, and 20 high-resolution skies along with his most popular video course “10 Essential Tips Every Landscape Photographer Should Know.”

Whether you’re using ON1 Photo RAW 2022 or Effects 2022, this creative collection is an essential addition to your ON1 editing toolkit.”

I know a lot of you already have one or more of On1’s awesome plug-ins, and if you do, I think you’ll super-dig this bundle (especially when it’s on sale like this). I hope you’ll check it out.  

Here’s the link to get the 50% off deal. 

Have a great Holiday week (technically, I’m on vacation this week, but I wanted to share this today since it just came out). 

Merry Christmas, everybody!  

-Scott

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Head over Lightroom’s preference and then click on the Preset tab up at the top. Once you do that you’ll see a Raw Defaults section near the top, and from the “Master,” pop-up menu (where it says “Adobe Default” click and hold on that and choose ‘Camera Settings” as shown above.

That’s all there is to it. Now when you shoot in RAW and choose a ‘style’ in-camera, Lightroom will still honor it (unless, of course, Lightroom doesn’t have access to that particular style).

Hope you found that helpful, and here’s to a great week!

-Scott

P.S. I’m getting my second vaccine shot tomorrow. Whoo hoo!!!

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Within the Discover section you can find tutorials created and submitted by fellow Lightroom users all around the world. They are grouped under various themes, like Landscape, Food, Black and White, and so on. As you scroll through the tutorials, you can hover your cursor over them to see a quick before and after to help you decide if you want to look further.

Clicking on a tutorial takes you into seeing the image as it automatically cycles through each step in the editing process created by the person who submitted the tutorial. That’s pretty cool.

Many of these tutorials (possibly most of them) also allow the settings used in that edit to be saved by you as a preset, which is added to your collection of presets and synced across all Lightroom devices. Just look for the Save as Preset button, click it, and save it to your presets.

Unfortunately, presets created or acquired in the Lightroom cloud apps are not synced to Lightroom Classic. Here’s how to manually share those with Lightroom Classic:

Step One: Go through the Discover section and save as many presets as you wish, or just create your own presets with your own photos.

Step Two: Now that you have some unique presets in Lightroom, again this should be done from the Mac or Windows Lightroom app (not the mobile apps), press E to open the Edit panels, then click the Presets button (bottom) to open the Presets panel.

Step Three: Right-click each preset that you want to bring into Lightroom Classic and choose Export. This will save out the preset as an .XMP file. Choose where you want to save it (like your desktop) so that it is easy to find. Repeat that process for each preset you want to export.

Step Four: Switch to Lightroom Classic, and go to the Develop module.

Step Five: Go to File > Import Develop Profiles and Presets, then in the dialog that appears, navigate to where you saved the exported presets. Select them all, and press Import.

The selected presets I exported were originally saved in a preset group named Saved Presets in the Lightroom cloud app. After importing into Lightroom Classic, a new preset group named Saved Presets appeared in the Presets panel, and the imported presets were found within. This may vary based on how your presets are grouped (organized). You can use Lightroom Classic to move them to other preset groups as you wish.

You can also read my previous tutorial on getting your Lightroom Classic presets into the cloud. Hope you find that helpful!

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NOTE: The Creative Profiles are found by clicking on the little four-rectangle icon near the top right of the Basic panel, right below “Black & White.”

Using a Creative Profile Doesn’t Move Your Sliders

This is a biggie. When you apply a Preset in Lightroom to get a particular look, it just moves your sliders (some or a bunch) to a “preset” position. However, when you apply a Creative Profile, it doesn’t move any sliders whatsoever.

So, you can apply a Creative Profile, and then start tweaking your image without messing up its look (if you apply a preset, and then move any of the sliders in the preset, it changes the look of the preset). You can also apply a preset, and then apply a Creative Profile to your image without messing up the Preset. It’s a totally separate way to give your image a look that doesn’t mess with your sliders or any preset you applied. Huge!

You Can Control The Amount With Just One Slider

When you apply a Preset, to lower the intensity of the preset, there’s no built-in easy way to move all the sliders proportionally to reduce the amount of the preset by say 15% or 22%.

However, when you apply a Creative you have an Amount slider (seen above) and you can either make the creative look you just applied through this profile either more intense or more subtle by simply moving the Amount slider (here I lowered the amount by 22%).

It’s Easy To Save Favorites For Quick Access

If you find a Creative Profile (Color or B&W) you like, you can just click the “star” icon up in its top right corner ((as seen below) and boom — it’s added to your main Profiles pop-up menu. It doesn’t get much easier than that.

There ya have it. If you’re not taking advantage of these built-in Creative Profiles, I hope this gives you three reasons to give them a shot.

Here’s to a great week — hoping yours is a healthy, happy, creative one!

-Scott

P.S. We just announced “The Landscape Photography Conference,” last Wednesday, and already nearly 400 photographers have signed up. It’s coming this September 8-9, 2020. If you missed the news, catch the short launch video (link), or you can get your tickets right here.

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Many people first get acquainted with the cloud based Lightroom app on their mobile device (Android or iOS phone or tablet) using the free Lightroom mobile app. You don’t need a subscription to use the free mobile app, which is great. However, without a subscription you don’t get the desktop version the Lightroom app or the ability to sync photos and presets across devices.

So, how can you import develop presets into the Lightroom mobile app itself? Well, you can’t, exactly. At least you can’t import the preset files specifically. You have to use a bit of a workaround by importing a photo that has Lightroom (or Adobe Camera Raw) settings applied to the photo, then manually make your own preset from those settings, which you can then apply to your other photos when needed. Let’s walk through the steps.

Importing a DNG with Settings

To begin, you’ll need a photo with settings applied to it that you want to save as a preset. Here’s a DNG file with some settings applied that you can download (and unzip after downloading) and use to follow along.

Before preset:

After preset:

The first trick is to get the DNG file to your mobile device. I used AirDrop to transfer it from my Mac to my iPhone, but you could use Dropbox, OneDrive, or some other service to transfer the DNG file. Note, many times the DNG files provided for creating presets will be compressed in a Zip file (such as the one I provided), as this makes it easier for downloading. It is easier to unzip a file on your computer than your mobile device, but there are apps for both iOS and Android that allow file unzipping on their respective platforms (search for them in the respective app stores).

With the DNG file transferred to your mobile device, here are the steps to creating a preset from the settings stored in the DNG file’s metadata:

Step One: Import the DNG file into Lightroom mobile app. You import this photo just like you would import any other photo from your camera roll or files location on your device.

Step Two: Once the photo is imported into Lightroom mobile you should see the settings that have been applied to it (as the original DNG may not show it when viewing it on your device’s Camera Roll). That means the settings are waiting for you to transform them into a preset. Switch to the Edit view.

Step Three: Tap the three-dot menu at the top of the screen and choose Create Preset from the menu that appears.

Step Four: This opens the New Preset dialog. You’ll need to make a few decisions here. The first decision is to give the preset a name. Depending on where you got the original DNG file from, it may have been named based on the preset/settings applied, but you can call the preset anything you want (its all yours now!). In this case, I named it “Warm Contrast White Border” because the settings warm up the photo using Split Tone, add contrast with a Tone Curve, and add a white border using the Vignette.

The second decision is how to organize your presets. By default, it will be placed in the User Preset group. Nothing wrong with that, but as you add more you may want to group them in a way that makes sense to you. I’ll leave it in the default for now.

The third, and most important decision is what boxes to check for deciding what settings to include. The simplest choice is to just check all the boxes. This way you ensure you are including the important settings (the ones that provide the “look” the preset is trying to achieve). The more daring choice is to only check boxes that have settings applied to them, but how do you know what settings to include? Lightroom tries to help you via the Select drop-down menu under the Preset Group choice you made earlier. Tap Select to see its options, which are All, Modified, Default, and None.

So you can choose All and just get on with your life, or you can choose Modified and have it only check the settings that shifted from their default settings. In my case, I chose Modified and see that it only checked boxes in the Light (for the Tone Curve), Effects (for the Vignette and Split Tone), and Optics (because I have my preferences set to include lens profile correction by default, which is not relevant to this preset, but it is a setting that was applied).

The benefit of only including settings in the preset is that it allows you to apply other settings to the photo first, and then apply the preset without necessarily changing the settings you previously applied (assuming you didn’t change any of the settings included in the preset).

Once you’ve made all of those decisions, tap the checkmark in the upper-right corner to complete the preset creation process.

The preset has now been added to the preset group you chose and you can apply it to any other photo in your library as you wish. While it may seem like there is a lot involved in this process, once you go through it the first time you’ll see it is not a big deal. That said, I’d love for Adobe to find a way to make it easier to just import the presets directly. However, if you find using Lightroom mobile useful, go ahead and and try the subscription so that you can sync across all of your devices and see how that works for your lifestyle.

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First, here’s where to download the free Lightroom preset you see above:

Now, here’s how to install it:

STEP ONE: In Lightroom’s Develop Module, go to the top right of the Presets panel and click on the +-sign icon, and from the pop-out menu that appears, choose ‘Import Presets…’ as shown above.

STEP TWO: Navigate your way to the preset you just downloaded (I had to make it a .zip file or WordPress wouldn’t have created the download link). Un-zip the file (it’s if it’s already unzipped) and click on the file with .xmp as the file extension (as seen here), then click the Import button in the bottom right corner (as shown here).

STEP THREE: In the Presets panel, scroll down to the User Presets section and you’ll find my Lightroom preset listed there alphabetically (again, its name is “Texturepocolypse.” Just hover your cursor over the preset and you’ll see a preview of what it will look like in the Navigator panel at the top of the left side panels. That’s all there is to it unless you want to create a separate folder for this preset and other’s I’ll be posting, or for other presets you download from other sources (gasp!). In case you do, let’s look at Managing your Presets.

STEP FOUR: To create a Preset Group (it’s essentially a folder where you can sort your presets), go back to that same Presets panel; click on that +-sign button and from the pop-out menu choose Create Preset (don’t worry — we’re not going to actually create a preset — but this is how we get to the command that creates new folders).

STEP FIVE: When the New Preset window appears, click and hold on the ‘Group” pop-up menu (near the top of the window) and from the pop-up menu that appears, go all the way to the top of the list and choose “New Group.”

STEP SIX: This brings up the New Group dialog (shown above) where you can name your new Group (again, it’s really just a folder where you can store similar presets) and click the Create button. Now, we don’t need the preset we’re going to create (we went thru all this just to create a new group), so in the naming field for this preset, just name it “Delete me” so you know which one to delete in just a moment. Now click the ‘Create’ button and it creates a new folder (OK, a ‘Group’) in your Presets panel called “Post Apocalyptic Processing.” Find the “Texturepocalypse” preset we imported previously; click and hold on it, and drag it onto the “Post Apocalyptic Processing” folder to add this preset to that group. Yup, it’s all drag and drop from here.

STEP SEVEN: Now let’s go get rid of that fake preset we created. Go to the new Group named “Post Apocalyptic Processing” that we just created, and click on the white disclosure triangle to the immediate left of its name to display what’s inside that Group. You’ll see two presets “Delete Me” and “Texturepocalypse”. Right-click directly on the preset “Delete Me” and from the pop-up menu that appears, choose Delete (as shown here). It’ll then display a scary sounding “Permanently Delete this Preset?” warning — just click “Delete’ and your fake preset is gone, but your new Preset Group remains (with “Texturepocalypse” still inside it).

STEP NINE: If there are groups you don’t need and want to hide them from view (just to keep your menus and your workflow short, neat and tidy), you can do that in the Manage Presets window. To get there, go back to that same menu at the top right of the Presets panel, but this time from the pop-out menu choose “Manage Presets” (as shown above).

STEP 10: This brings up Lightroom’s Manage Presets window (shown above). To hide any groups of presets, just un-check their checkboxes. When you’re done making choices, click the Save button at the bottom of the window. Now only groups with a checkmark by them will be visible in the Preset panel.

There ya have it!

Hope you found that helpful (and I hope you put that preset to good use. It looks great on the right image. On the flip side: it looks pretty bad on the wrong image. Just sayin’.

Have a totally kick-butt weekend, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. Next Wednesday I’m teaching my “Ultimate Photography Crash Course” Seminar in San Francisco. Come on out and spend the day with me! Tickets and info here.

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• Exposure
• Contrast
• Highlights
• Shadows
• Whites
• Blacks
• Vibrance
• Saturation

Within the cloud-based Lightroom apps there is an easily accessible Auto button and the desktop Lightroom app even has a shortcut, Shift+A, to make it even easier. And while it is possible to create presets in all of the cloud-based Lightroom apps, there is no way to include the Auto function in a preset within those apps (at least none that I’ve found so far).

However, this is where Lightroom Classic can come in handy. Lightroom Classic has the same Auto button in the Basic panel, and has a keyboard shortcut, CMD/Ctrl+U, it also has a specific Auto option in the New Develop Preset dialog box that makes it possible to preserve the Auto functionality in a preset.

So, first create the preset in Lightroom Classic, then import the preset into the desktop Lightroom app. Once the preset is imported into the desktop Lightroom app it will be synced across all of the other cloud-based Lightroom apps you are using. Here’s how to do that.

Step One: Open Lightroom Classic, move to Develop, and click the + sign at the top of the Presets panel, and choose Create Preset.

Step Two: In the New Develop Preset dialog box, check the box for Auto (and any other settings you want to include), give the preset a meaningful name, place it in a preset group, and click Create.

Step Three: To make it easier to find this preset for importing into Lightroom cloud, right-click the newly created preset and choose Show in Finder/Explorer to open a file browser window to its location. Place a copy of the preset on your desktop to make it easy to find. Grab copies of any other presets you want to bring to the cloud too.

Step Four: Open the desktop Lightroom app.

Step Five: Go to File > Import Profiles & Presets, then navigate to the desktop (or wherever you placed the copy of the preset), select it, and click Import to bring it in.

Once the preset(s) have time to sync you will see them appear in the other cloud-based Lightroom apps. I’ve found it handy to also include other settings like enabling a lens profile, turning on removal of chromatic aberration, preferred sharpening settings, or a preferred camera profile. Bundling key settings into a preset just makes it easier and faster to get to a preferred starting point no matter which of the Lightroom apps I am using at the time.

Side note, I’m super excited to have the opportunity to teach at Adobe MAX next week. I’m teaching four labs on using profiles and presets in the cloud-based Lightroom. I’m also excited to see what new things will be released, to learn from other instructors, and see so many of my friends. Please stop me and say hello if you are there!

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Here’s a new feature that Adobe snuck into the recent Lightroom Classic 7.3 update — one we’ve been waiting for, for around 11 or so years — the ability to see a full-size preview of how a particular preset would look before we applied it. We’ve had a mini-preview available if you had the tiny Navigator panel open at the top of the left side panels, but this is the real full-size preview we’ve always longed for.

Take a look at this silent 21-second video to see it in action (I didn’t have a decent mic with me here in Cincinnati, so I went all Silent Bob on it).

Pretty sweet, right?

A few folks are having issues with this feature…
I saw online where there are a few folks out there that can’t get this new feature to work, even though they updated to Lightroom Classic 7.3. Could have to do with your brand of Graphics Card or amount of RAM, or you didn’t buy a Mac or any of that crazy stuff, but I’ve talked to lots of folks for whom it is working swimmingly. Now, if it’s not working for you, should you post a nastygram to Adobe here, OR perhaps should you use the links I gave you on Friday to talk directly to Adobe’s Lightroom team? It’s your call.

Have a great Monday, everybody!

Best,

-Scott

P.S. The next stop on my Lightroom seminar tour is Hartford, CT on Monday, May 7th. Come on out and spend the day with me learning cool Lightroom stuff.

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What it did was convert your existing custom Develop presets to a format compatible with the Camera Raw plug-in, and then copied the XMP versions to a folder shared with the Camera Raw plug-in, so now your custom Lightroom Classic presets are available inside the Camera Raw plug-in. The few presets I had in Camera Raw are now showing in Classic too (inside the User Presets folder). That’s actually pretty cool.

Note, it left the original custom presets where they were, but appended a ~ to the front of the file name to remain backwards compatible with older versions of Lightroom Classic (should you still have an older version installed). 

The really cool change that slipped under the radar is that you now get a full screen preview of a preset simply by hovering your cursor over the preset. The Navigator still changes too, but who needs that when you have the main image updating?

You still need to click the preset to apply it to the photo just as before, but this makes it a lot easier to find one you like. There’s also a bunch of new presets for you to explore.

Not to take away from all the nice things, but these changes did take managing presets back a few steps. We used to be able to right-click a custom folder (or the User Presets folder) and access a contextual menu for creating new folders, but that is gone. Contextual-clicking any custom preset folder only brings up an Import menu option, so there is no way to rename preset folders within Classic at the moment.

As far as I can tell, the only way within Classic to create new preset folders is to create a new (dummy) preset, and within the New Develop Preset dialog, you can click the Group drop-down menu and choose New Group to create a new group/folder for your new preset. Once the preset is created, it will be in the new folder you created at the same time. You can then drag and drop presets into that folder as needed. Note, empty folders disappear, so don’t get rid of your dummy preset until you put others in that folder. You can use this convoluted process to rename a folder by creating a new folder with the renamed-name, moving presets into that new folder, and the empty folder with the old name goes poof.

Thankfully, you can still access the contextual menu on individual presets.

The way presets and preset folders sorted has also changed. In 7.2 and earlier I had a set of preset folders named with a leading number to make them sort to the top of the list, and keep them in the order I accessed them. This worked great for keeping them above the fray and within easy reach. Sadly, post update all custom preset folders appear below the Adobe pre-loaded preset folders. Luckily, I found a way to (sort of) work around that by marking certain presets as Favorites.

To mark a preset as a Favorite, control-click the preset (PC: right-click) and choose Add to Favorites from the contextual menu. This adds the selected preset to a Favorites folder that appears at the very top of the Presets panel. Once I added all my go-to presets to Favorites I renamed my presets with a leading number to sort them into an order that makes sense to my workflow. In practice, this works as well as my old system, but it did take a bit of tweaking to get it close to the way I had it (I actually had to rename them twice, once to remove the number, and a second time to add the number back to make it sort).

An alternative management solution is to utilize the Camera Raw (ACR) plug-in’s preset tab. Since the presets are shared between the two programs any changes you make in ACR should reflect back in Classic (after a restart). The contextual menu in ACR on custom preset groups provides the ability to rename them, delete them, and even hide them (the pre-loaded groups can only be hidden). So, if there are preset groups that you never use, you can head over to ACR, click the Presets tab, contextual-click a preset group and hide it from both programs. There’s even a Reset Hidden Presets option to bring them back if you change your mind (or hit the wrong one by accident). I hid the Grain and Vignetting groups to start.

Note, this assumes you’ve updated Camera Raw to 10.3.

Now, I’m not saying these workarounds are ideal (they are not), and my hope is that the functionality we see in ACR will at least make its way into Classic at some point in the future, but for now, this is the way it seems to be. I’m sure there’s more to discover here, so share any tips you’ve found.

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Q. Is there any way to use the Presets I created in Lightroom Classic, over in the new cloud-storage based Lightroom CC?
A. Wow, I’m glad you asked, and the answer is “Why yes, yes there is Timmy” – and it’s easy, it just takes a few really boring steps. Here’s how:

STEP ONE: Start in Lightroom Classic, and go to the Preferences window and click on the Presets Tab. In the Presets Preferences you will find a button that says “Show Lightroom Presets Folder” (it’s seen above with a big red circle around it. You won’t see that circle in your copy, but don’t let that deter you.

STEP TWO: This will lead you to the Lightroom Secret Stuff folders and since you asked for the Presets folder you’d assume that this must be it. Nope. Too easy. Too obvious. Too “un-Lighroom like.” You must dig deeper, but at least you’re in the right neighborhood.

STEP THREE: Double-click on that Lightroom Secret Stuff folder and inside that you’ll there are a whole bunch of different presets (not just Develop Module presets, so I’ll have to give Adobe a pass on that, but since what folks primarily share between each other are Develop Module presets, they could add a button to take you right here, but I digress). Double-click on that folder and inside are yet more folders, as each set of Presets you created have their own folder (and there’s some default folders there, too).

STEP FOUR: Double-click on the folder that has the presets you want to copy over to Lightroom CC and they finally reveal themselves (as seen above). Keep this window open.

STEP FIVE: Now go launch Lightroom CC; click the Edit button at the top right to bring out the Editing panel and all the way at the bottom you’ll find a Presets button. Click on that. Once the Presets panel pops out (seen above in the darker gray), click on the three dots up top and from the menu that appears, choose Open Presets Folder (as seen here).

STEP SIX: In Lightroom CC it takes you right to the folder you want, and inside that folder you’ll find an empty folder called “User Presets.” Now, remember how you left that other window open? The one with your Lightroom Classic presets? Select them all, and drag them into this folder (if you’re going to bringing over different sets of Presets, you might want to create folders for each set inside this User Presets set. Your call.

STEP SEVEN: Now you can close that window; Quit Lightroom CC, and then when you Re-launch Lightroom CC you’ll find a new User Presets section and there are your presets from Lightroom CC. It’s a Christmas miracle (in early February). Can you tell I’m writing this when I’m really tired? Oh, you could?

Anyway, that’s the deal. Now copy presets and be fruitful.

Have you ever thought of creating your own Wedding Albums in Lightroom Classic?
Me, too! But you probably don’t want to just use those default photo book layouts they give you in Lightroom Classic’s Book Module — you want something beyond that, right? Well of course you do, because you rock. And that’s precisely why I created an awesome class on how to design really cool Wedding Album pages, including some really cool custom layouts, all right in Lightroom. This is one of my favorite classes I’ve taught on Lightroom, and I hope you’ll give it a look (I did it for Wedding Albums, but the techniques I’m showing you can be used for any photo books you create in Lightroom Classic).

First, check out the 30-second trailer below. Do it for me, the guy who thinks you rock:

Makes you want to watch the class doesn’t it? Good thing I have the direct link to the course right here handy for you.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Best,

-Scott
Up late for no apparent reason

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