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neonmamacita
Inspiring
January 6, 2025
Question

How do I see and adjust presets?

  • January 6, 2025
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I have the ENHANCE EYES/ WN02/ VIVID/ HEAVY GRAIN presets all applied to the photo

1) How do I see which presets are applied to my photo?

2) Is there a way to switch off and on which presets are applied? 

3) Can I adjust the strength of these presets? ie. is there to apply WN02 at 100% or at 10%?

 

Currently the only place I can see the presets is in the "history" panel. But sometimes I don't want to go back in history, I want the ability to see and adjust the presets. 

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Community Expert
January 6, 2025

Presets are just a convenient and standard way to move the standard adjustment sliders to particular values. It is those adjustments, not the preset itself, that make a difference to your photo.

 

The same difference happens regardless whether you've manually moved an adjustment to a certain value, or copied that across from another photo, or used a preset to set it to that value.

 

Furthermore if any later preset or manual change has further altered relevant adjustments then it no longer makes sense to talk of the photo as "having" that preset applied any more. The record of its usage in the History has to be considered together with all the other History steps, to explain how the photo currently looks.

 

Some presets can be modified in their % effect immediately after they are used - before dpoing anything else - but this is again merely a matter of what setting the actual adjustments concerned are to adopt. Say a preset is going to set Exposure to -1, and then you choose to moderate that preset's action to 50%. This just means that the Exposure slider moves half the distance from whatever its present value is, to the value of -1 that is written into the preset. Exactly the same as if you had manually moved the Exposure slider to this final setting. That is what the photo goes forward with - there is no ability to later change % action of the preset. A preset is not any kind of persisting "thing" that would be further adjustable, or listable - it is a momentary past "event" in the image's History.

 

Analogy: knowing something perhaps from school, or perhaps from encountering that fact somehow else. We can't assess or extend our current knowledge by reconsidering what school lessons we had as a child (some of which information was later forgotten or corrected or superseded), nor by reviewing our other past experiences for that matter.

 

We work from, and update as needed, our present situation - which results from a combination of all that.

neonmamacita
Inspiring
January 7, 2025

Thanks Richard,I hope that Adobe considers making it easier to see which presets are applied and adjust going forward as it is quite confusing now. For example, if I have grain, WN05, and polished portrait, I should be able to turn those on and off individually as they don't override each other. 

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
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January 7, 2025

That's very unlikely, because of the following. A preset is simply a "pre-setting". There is no difference between changing Exposure to a certain value manually, or using a preset that changes Exposure to that value. That means that a preset does not remember what the settings were before you applied it, except in the history panel. And it also means that if you applied several presets, then you cannot 'toggle on/off' an earlier preset, just like you cannot toggle on/off an older history step without also toggling the more recent steps as well.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
AxelMatt
Community Expert
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January 6, 2025
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1) How do I see which presets are applied to my photo?

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You'll see it in the History section on the left side panel in the Develop modul. There are you see all steps that you have made during the editing of your image.

 

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2) Is there a way to switch off and on which presets are applied? 

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No.

 

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3) Can I adjust the strength of these presets? ie. is there to apply WN02 at 100% or at 10%?

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By @neonmamacita

 

Yes. But this possibility must be set at the creation of the preset. During the creation process you have to enable the "Support Amoint Slider" option.

 

 

Then you can set the amount after you have assigned the appropirate preset

 

 

More infos you'll find also here: Work with the Develop module in Lightroom Classic

 

 

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JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2025

@AxelMatt screenshot shows all checkboxes ticked when creating a preset. I'm sure he did that just for the screenshot, but a word of warning might be useful. If you create a new preset, or update an existing preset with the current settings of the image by right-clicking on the preset, then only tick those checkboxes that the preset should affect! If you tick all boxes, then the current settings of all sliders will be saved in your preset, even if those sliders are at zero in the current image. So here's what that means:

 

Suppose you create a preset that should only increase the Vibrance to 30, and so that is all you have set in the current image. If you tick all the boxes when you create the preset, then your new preset will set Vibrance to 30 and all other sliders to zero. So if you have edited an image and only want to quickly apply Vibrance = 30 by using your preset, then you will be in for a nasty surprise...

 

Also remember that not everyting is supported by the Amount slider. Things that are not supported by the Amount slider are those things that are yes/no, such as Treatment = Black&White, or Lens Corrections enabled, or HDR Mode on. If you tick any of these boxes, then your preset will not support the Amount slider, and so ticking that checkbox won't have any effect.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
AxelMatt
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January 6, 2025

@JohanElzenga You're right. Thanks for clarification.

 

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