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johnrellis
Legend
April 16, 2018
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P: Presets including raw profiles are sometimes available for non-raws, sometimes not

  • April 16, 2018
  • 53 replies
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[LR 8.1 now displays partially compatible presets in grey italics, which will avoid the confusion experienced by many users:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-presets-including-raw-profiles-are-...]

Presets including raw profiles via Treatment & Profile are sometimes visible in the Presets panel when a non-raw is selected, sometimes not.  This is confusing.

- Presets including DCP raw profiles are visible for non-raws (Adobe Standard and all Camera Matching profiles).

- Presets including enhanced raw profiles are not visible for non-raws (Adobe Color, Monochrome, Landscape, Neutral, Portrait, Vivid).

This is clearly inconsistent behavior, since none of these raw profiles can actually be applied to non-raws.  LR should either hide all such presets for non-raws or make them all available, ignoring the raw profile when the preset is applied to a non-raw.

I think it should make them all available for non-raws, given this use case: People often click the Check All button when creating a preset.  When they round-trip a raw to Photoshop and get back a TIFF, they expect that such a preset should be applicable to the TIFF as much as to a raw, not remembering or knowing they clicked Treatment and Profile.

If LR makes none of these raw-profile-containing presets available for non-raws, then that will create another most frequent FAQ, "Why can't I see my preset?", analogous to "Where are the lens profiles?".

53 replies

johnrellis
Legend
December 13, 2018
Excellent, LR 8.1 by default shows these "partially compatible" presets (containing raw profiles) as grey italics in the Presets panel:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/whats-new.html#main-pars_text_848740471 

This will avoid a large number of users getting confused and asking "Where are my presets?"
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
December 11, 2018
Updates to the Lightroom CC Ecosystem and Lightroom Classic CC were released earlier today. Please update your software and let us know if you are still experiencing this issue. 
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
johnrellis
Legend
November 12, 2018
Another person confused by LR silently hiding inapplicable presets: 
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/presets-disappear-for-dngs
johnrellis
Legend
October 28, 2018
Another user asks, "Where are my presets?"
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10712299#10712299
johnrellis
Legend
October 9, 2018
nicolasa1
Participant
October 9, 2018
How do I create a preset that is not camera model specific (ideally works for RAW & JPEG) but includes primary color calibration settings? Haven't been able to find my answer on this. 
nicolasa1
Participant
October 9, 2018
How do I create a preset that is not camera model specific but includes primary color calibration settings?
nicolasa1
Participant
October 9, 2018
How do I create a preset that is not camera model specific but includes primary color calibration settings?
johnrellis
Legend
September 16, 2018
Another user asks, "Where are my presets?"
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10622676#10622676
johnrellis
Legend
September 12, 2018
And another user gets confused: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2534193