Default preset for local adjustment brush

[FrostyOfTheNorth]

Does Lightroom allow for a default preset for the local adjustment brush?  After experimenting and Googling I haven't found a way.

The context:  I use a local adjustment preset daily on dozens of photos.  The current workflow requires that  select that preset for each photo, which results in dozens of extraneous clicks and an interupted flow.  Those extra clicks would be avoided by being able to specify a default preset.

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

Exact same settings on the local adjustment brush for dozens of photos? Make sure this box is UNchecked.

[FrostyOfTheNorth]

Yep, that did it.  Thank you!  This will save me countless clicks and several minutes every day.

I wish this was somehow indexed differently in the Lightroom help so I would have found it when I was search for "default preset setting".  ChatGPT also didn't come up with this answer.

[richardplondon]

If there is a particular brushed local fix that you use a lot, and that always needs to apply the same adjustment (at least as a starting point) then you can make this on a photo as a mask - you'll need to add a brushed spot to do this, but you can then erase that - and name this mask meaningfully - and include this mask by name into a new Develop preset.

Now when you apply this Develop preset to a different photo - or to many photos - the same mask will be seen there, applying your same adjustments. You can then click to activate this mask and brush in which parts of each photo you want it to apply to.

You can make, and include by name into the preset, multiple such pre-made masks if you want.

OR you can sync or copy/paste a mask or multiple masks made for one image, onto one or more others. Same result.

So: rather than trying to repeatedly create from scratch in a way that matches how something was previously created - duplicating that already-made thing is IMO the more efficient approach. 

This is not restricted to brushed masks - it can be any kind of simple or combined mask, manually made or involving some automatically detected AI selection such as "Sky". From there on not only this mask's selection, but also the adjustments it applies, remain further alterable of course.