Lightroom Presets

What Is A Lightroom Preset?

Lightroom presets are pre-developed settings or “slider positions” in Lightroom that can be saved and applied to other images to replicate the exact settings and results used in the original. Lightroom presets save a lot of time by allowing photographers to apply the same preset over and over again with one click. Lightroom also allows you to batch apply presets to an entire collection of photos all at once. Professionally developed Lightroom presets provide the best quality presets available because they are created by photographers with expert level experience in creating them and other Adobe filters, such as Photoshop actions. When applying presets, each preset can be adjusted after it is applied. Moving the sliders for each preset setting will change the results. Different combinations of adjustments in each preset will create and entirely different look from the original preset. Presets offer flexibility to achieve the perfect look for each individual photo.

What Is Adobe Lightroom?

Adobe Lightroom is a photo editing software used by photographers to edit their photography digitally. Lightroom allows photographers to organize and edit their photos quickly and efficiently allowing them to edit more photos in a shorter amount of time. Within Lightroom is a presets panel where users can edit photos with lightroom presets.

What Is Adobe Lightroom CC?

Adobe Lightroom CC is the new cloud-based version of Adobe Lightroom that allows photographers to sync their mobile and desktop editing environments using the Lightroom Mobile App. Lightroom presets loaded in the CC account automatically sync to the mobile app upon installation. In addition, the process of applying the presets is much easier to use in the paid version.

What Is Lightroom Mobile?

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC for mobile is Lightroom’s mobile app that allows photographers to capture, edit and share photos on their mobile device or phone. There is a free version and paid. The paid version of Adobe Lightroom CC allows you to connect all your devices, including mobile and sync seamlessly using the cloud. Users can access and use lightroom presets they have loaded or created in lightroom from their desktop via their Creative Cloud account. Using lightroom presets in the free version is different and requires the DNG file extension for each preset. Each preset settings are then copied and pasted onto a new image. Using a preset with the paid version allows you to apply each preset directly without the need to copy and paste the settings.

How To Install & Import Lightroom Presets?

There are several different versions of Lightroom that require 4 slightly different installation methods to import or load the presets. Links to the four current how to install methods are included here with the newest first. Each method basically has you installing (copying and pasting) your presets into the Lightroom application folder within the Develop Presets/User Presets folder. There are slightly different locations depending on the type of computer you are using, but the method is very similar.

Click Here > Install Presets for Lightroom CC 2018 v1.5 – 2+

Click Here > Install Presets for Lightroom CC 2018 v1.0

Click Here > Install Presets for Lightroom CC Classic 2018 v 7.5 – 8+

Click Here > Install Presets for Lightroom 4, 5 & 6 – CC 2014-2017 – Classic CC 2018

How To Use Lightroom Presets?

Using lightroom presets is very easy and takes just a few minutes to learn and become comfortable applying a preset and then customizing the preset using the lightroom sliders, if needed, to each image. We have created lightroom preset video tutorials for all of our lightroom preset collections and they are included on each product page. Please watch several of the preset tutorials to become comfortable applying the presets to your images.