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January 15, 2025
Question

Where or how to put the name of the preset used in a photo metadata zone for windows explorer

  • January 15, 2025
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Hello All .
I didn't find where the "name of the preset" of my pics are stocked in metadata.

So, i put by copy/paste the name of the preser in the field called "objet" to find it on the windows explorer detailed files. 
It is a problem that a lot of photographer have.
Is there an metadata zone where it exist or a solution to automate it ?

Same with Color that is not in windows explorer files details to sort them easely.

 

Thank you for your help 🙂 

2 replies

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 15, 2025

One reason it might not be stored is that it’s possible to apply any number of different kinds of presets to a single image. I apply multiple presets frequently, because I have some presets that only affect tones, others that only affect sharpness, others that add specific masks…some images need only one preset, some need several. Thet metadata would have to be able to list them all, like the way it stores keywords.

 

And, presets applied later can change the settings made by presets made earlier, so the more presets have been applied the more difficult it is to isolate the effect of any single preset that was applied to that image.

 

In contrast, an XMP sidecar file does list the CameraProfile used, because only one of those can be applied to a file.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 15, 2025

A preset is just a one-click shortcut to add certain adjustments. I could be wrong, but don't think the name of the preset is stored in the metadata of the image when you apply a preset.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participant
January 15, 2025

Hello 🙂
the indormation is in the catalog because when i charge a save od a catalog and original pics, LR found "Alone" and by "Mystic" the name of the preset and put in hightline the name of the preset on the left.
It takes sometimes a lot of time to have them .
In some version of LR, it doesn ' t works ...
One problem too is that i made directories for my presets and with the 3 latest version, it doesn t use the folders ... Preset are in one directory ....

johnrellis
Legend
January 15, 2025

The name of the develop preset last applied to a photo is stored in the metadata field XMP:PresetName, which you can view with Exiftool:

$ exiftool -xmp:presetname 1G6A7454.xmp 
Preset Name : Sharpening = 60

Note that the metadata is only written back to the photo file or its .xmp sidecar when you do the command Metadata > Save Metadata To File or you have set the option Catalog Settings > Metadata > Automatically Write Changes Into XMP.

 

Neither Windows File Explorer nor Mac Finder will display that field. You could have a batch script that invokes Exiftool to copy that field into an industry-standard field that Explorer does display. Or you could use the Capture Time To EXIF plugin run Exiftool for you within LR.

 

Similarly, the color label applied to a photo is stored in XMP:Label, and neither FInder nor Explorer display it.