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elizabetha82606065
elizabetha82606065
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July 11, 2019
Question

Lightroom overlaying presets on top of one another?

  • July 11, 2019
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In the past, I have applied a preset, made adjustments, and then afterward decided I wanted to compare it to a different preset so I would then hover over a different preset on the left side and see what the image would look like with that preset instead. Clicking on the new preset would apply only the information from that one and would override any previous adjustments made with the prior preset.

now when i edit and click on a new preset it overlays the new preset on top of the old edits so I essentially have to reset the image every time I want to apply new edits. This isn't help when I have made adjustments to the alignment and lens corrections that aren't associated with the presets. Is this a setting that I may have turned off?

Is there a way to see the details of each preset? It appears to do it on all now even the adobe ones.

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    Tony_See
    Tony_See
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2019

    I am wondering if this changed after a major Lightroom version update?

    Could you post your Lightroom version EXACTLY, as there were some significant changes to how Presets were implemented within Lightroom (if that turns out to be your issue as John above has pointed to).

    Until we can confirm a little more, this might provide some perspective for you:

    The new presets do not use folders anymore. You can organise them in groups when you create them, but that kind of organisation is kept in the preset itself. John R Eliis has made a plugin that can sync groups and folders. Fix Presets Lightroom Plugin

    john beardsworth
    Community Expert
    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 11, 2019

    This behaviour hasn't changed. If preset 2 has a setting checked, it will override any setting set by preset 1. If a setting is not defined in preset 2, that setting will be unchanged.

    Are you sure you aren't confusing presets and profiles?

    To see the details, go to the preset in Explorer/Finder (via right click) and open it in a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit. It's not easy to read, but not impossible.

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