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Aubrielegault
Aubrielegault
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December 9, 2023
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Cannot renumber my local adjustments/brushes

  • December 9, 2023
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I just finished my second phone call with Adobe.  And I feel like they gave up on fixing my issue and told me that "it's just how Lightroom is now..."  

 

I have a folder of local adjustments.   The first 12 are the ones I use the most.  They are numbered in order... 01-Burn, 02-Dodge, etc.  I have had them in this order for years.  I had to start a new catalog.  Since my new catalog, I cannot get the brushes to go in the order I want.  Even though they are renamed with the correct sequence, and they are sitting in the local adjustments folder in Lightroom preferences correctly... they will not show up in that order when I go to use the presets.   I/We have tried a lot of different things.  And Adobe's answer is... it's just the way it is now.  They are saying that Lightroom will put the presets in whatever order it wants to, not what order I want it to (or what order I have it numbered as).  It just sounds like a cop-out because no one knew how to fix this. 

 

Has anyone else had this issue?  Are you able to put your presets in the order you'd like?  What am I doing wrong??!   Super frustrated. 

 

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    Correct answer JohanElzenga

    As @JohanElzenga said in his first reply you have to change the name INSIDE the preset.  Use a text editor.


    Using a text editor is probably the fastest method, but you can do it in Lightroom Classic too. But not by changing the name of the file in the preset folder! What I wrote was this: Select the local adjustment preset in a mask, then go into the menu again and there will be a 'Rename preset' option all the way at the bottom of the menu. 

     

    So to spill it out: Start Lightroom Classic, select an image in the develop module, add a mask, select a local adjustment preset for that mask, select the local adjustment preset menu again and scroll all the way to the bottom of that menu. There you will see a 'Rename preset' menu for the preset you have just chosen. I hope it is clear now.

     

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    Aubrielegault
    AubrielegaultAuthor
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    December 13, 2023

    I was able to go in and rename the presets following the below instructions.  I don't remember doing that before, but perhaps that has always been the way.  It's a pain in the ass if you have a lot- luckily I only cared about the order of about 10-12 presets, so I renamed them.  I wish Adobe would have simply told me that... instead of spending two days on the phone with me poking around my LR and then finally giving me an answer of "That's just the way it is."  You would've thought they would have told me to simply use the "rename preset" at the bottom of the panel.  

     

    Thank you all for your help!!! I appreciate it. 

     

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    December 9, 2023

    The name of the preset is not the file name, but an internal name saved inside the preset. That means you must either rename them from within Lightroom Classic (select the local adjustment preset in a mask, then go into the menu again and there will be a 'Rename preset' option all the way at the bottom of the menu), or by using a text editor (presets are readable text).

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    Aubrielegault
    AubrielegaultAuthor
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    December 9, 2023

    Thank you, Johan for your response.  

     

    I tried that as well.  I went and downloaded my presets again from my source- so that I would have updated/clean presets.  I uploaded them into LR.  I then (within the LR folder) renumbered just a handful of the presets that I like to be at the top.  Quit.  Opened LR back up... and they still appear in the original order, not my order.  They are correct in the folder. They are not correct in the panel.  I've attached screenshots.  

     

    (I also don't know why it says "last modified" is September 16th, 2016.   That seems strange to me. 

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 9, 2023

    As @JohanElzenga said in his first reply you have to change the name INSIDE the preset.  Use a text editor.


    Using a text editor is probably the fastest method, but you can do it in Lightroom Classic too. But not by changing the name of the file in the preset folder! What I wrote was this: Select the local adjustment preset in a mask, then go into the menu again and there will be a 'Rename preset' option all the way at the bottom of the menu. 

     

    So to spill it out: Start Lightroom Classic, select an image in the develop module, add a mask, select a local adjustment preset for that mask, select the local adjustment preset menu again and scroll all the way to the bottom of that menu. There you will see a 'Rename preset' menu for the preset you have just chosen. I hope it is clear now.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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