P: Have develop preset parameters viewable inside Lightroom after creation.

Apologies, I didn't realize I needed the product name in the header, and I can't edit the header. It's Lightroom

Which product are you using? That sounds a bit like Lightroom, but could also apply to ACR and Photoshop.

When I save or update a preset, a window pops up and lets me choose which settings to keep in the preset. The boxes that are checked default to my last choices.

I create a preset "darken", check only contrast, blacks and tone curve, and then save the preset.

Sometime down the road, I realize that the look I am expecting from the preset can be further enhanced by a slight adjustment to the clarity slider, and I want to add this setting to "darken".

Only, I'm an older guy, it was a few months back, and I'm not really sure just which settings I set in "darken". I can keep the basic tab open and apply the slider, and I can see the contrast and blacks slider move, but I can't see the tone curve change.

So, how do I safely adjust the "darken" preset unless I can see which controls the preset is holding? I need to know to check contrast, blacks, tone curve, and now clarity, but I have no easy way to find that out.

Ideally, if I right-click a preset and select "update with current settings", the list of sliders / tools to include in the preset update should default to checking only those that are currently in the preset. That way I can safely update, in this case by also checking the Clarity check box.

Alternatively, I just need a way to look at what settings a preset is actually using. It's a bit primitive that I have to sue a text editor to open the preset and inspect it.

Once I made a preset I cannot see what the settings of that preset are. It would be very nice to right click on the preset and have the option to see what the settings are.

Having moved to Lightroom 4 I'm finding it necessary to change a lot of LR3 presets to the new processing. The recommended way to do this is to update the preset after applying it to an image. This is actually not that easy.

A preset doesn't always affect all parameters. At the time you create the preset you check the boxes to say which develop parameters you want to store in it. When you are trying to update a preset you don't know which parameters the original version checked so you cannot easily create an updated one with the correct boxes checked.

Here's the best solution I can think of. When I select update preset please set the checkboxes to the same state as when the preset was created. Then I think I have a better chance of creating a reasonable updated version of the preset. Thanks.

Rich

Lightroom - LR4 - Updating Develop Presets
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As we all know develop presets can contain a selected amount of parameters. The problem when updating a develop preset is that the parameter window doesn't have selected the exact parameters the preset contains, which means having to either remember which one's to select or guess.

Please can the update preset command query the preset and open the parameter window with the correct parameters selected. Thanks

I ́d like to be able to better control develop settings. For instance, when I want to copy settings from one image to another, I get the "Copy Settings" dialog box. In this box I can only check what settings I want to copy, but I don ́t see the values! A more informative dialog box - like the one for metadata, since it shows the contents - would be good.

Same thing goes for develop presets. I have poor memory (!), so whenever I try to update a preset, I have a hard time trying to remember what settings (and with what values) are involved in that particular preset. A "preset editor" would be great!

When choosing 'Develop Preset - Update with Current Settings', please initially check the items that are defined in the preset, and uncheck those that aren't.

That would save the user from having to:
1. Figure out which items are defined by this preset.
2. Check the corresponding boxes manually, in order to update same items.

Or, if there is some reason somebody might have found a use for it the way it is, at least add another button, along with 'Check All' & 'Check None': 'Check Matching'.

For editing as well as viewing, this 'Idea' covers it:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

You'll still have to remember what you saw, or write it down, unless you can also edit at the same time, which is what this 'Idea' is about:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...