P: Respect Hierarchical Folders of Presets

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March 9, 2016
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5 years ago, poster Sean Phillips first suggested this idea. Adobe has officially marked it as "implemented" - however, it is not implemented. Preset subfolders are scanned by LR, however, directory structure is not respected beyond the first level.

This makes preset management kludgy and inefficient. Please correct this by simply allowing the LR preset hierarchy to reflect the subfolder structure in the LR develop preset folder tree.

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Sean McCormack

Community Expert

Have you used this method? It separates stuff out really well. And as you might remember, I'd been asking for this since before the feedback site even existed.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

Sean Phillips

Known Participant

But still annoyingly non-hierarchical.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

How Lightroom manages XMP presets is completely different and ignores the folder layout in favour of internal mapped structure via the 'Cluster' line inside the preset.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

I have now stopped using presets altogether. The limited file structure makes organizing them in an accessible way impossible. PLEASE fix this problem!

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

We need to be able to:

1. Have multiple levels of nesting.

2. A thumbnail view for presets so we can see the effect of each preset without having to hover over them.

3. Option to have the preset thumbnails bigger or maybe on the 2nd screen.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

Lightroom Classic CC 7.4 released earlier today and features more robust management of Profiles and Presets. Here is some information regarding the new management tools: https://theblog.adobe.com/june-lightroom-cc-releases-preset-profile-synchronization/

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

what about thinking make a subfolder system to organize presets?

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Purplebutter

Participant

I agree..... I’ve bought presets from many sellers..... sometimes 10 different packages from one seller. For example: I bought ten different preset packages from XYZ each with a different name, like wedding, baby blues, vintage, grunge, pretty purple, etc..... I’d like to make one folder that is by xyz snd the put all the sub folders under xyz. Nd close it up.... then there is abc company and the same issues.... I want one folder that says abc.... and then out all the different packaged presets (in there folders) under abc folder! I use about 5 companies I like to buy from so if I had them all closed, I’d only have 5 folders showing up...... the way it is now, I have probably 50 folders under my presets that I have to click on..... then search that folder.... for the actual one preset I want! It gets old scrolling!

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andyinv

Participating Frequently

Another +1 for this. Just organised a heap of downloaded presets the way I wanted them, and LR crushed the structure. On top of that, it's not even showing quite a few of them. Bit annoying...