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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
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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

Bob Somrak
Legend
April 16, 2018
Akshay
I created a preset with "Adobe Monochrome" and it shows in the Preset Panel for Canon 5D Mark 2 and Canon 5D Classic RAW files but NOT for JPGs from the same cameras so it must be more than just Model Specific.  
M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
AviMathur
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
April 16, 2018
Hello John,

In general, if the preset/profile is based on a camera model specific DCP then the preset will not show up for other images.
Hope this resolves the confusion.
Feel free to ask more questions regarding this.

Thanks,
Akshay
Bob Somrak
Legend
April 16, 2018
I can confirm this behavior on Lr 7.3 and osx 10.13.4
M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB