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December 21, 2011
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P: Lightroom: Ability to delete the default develop presets

  • December 21, 2011
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[You can now hide the built-in presets in LR 7.3 using a free plugin or manually with a multi-step recipe.  --John Ellis]

It is now possible, though tedious, to delete the built-in presets in LR 7.3 and later. See this recipe: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/delete_default_develop_presets?topic-reply-li... --John Ellis]

I really would like to be able to delete the develop presets that ships with LR3. I don't use them as they are in the way of my own presets when using the Library Module.

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    Bill Allsopp
    Participating Frequently
    April 26, 2018
    The link does not work so please Adobe doe something about making these optional.
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    Bill Allsopp
    Participating Frequently
    April 26, 2018


    They are  a pain, I don't want them, I don't use them they just slow down my workflow. I have been using Lightroom since the second pre-sale beta trial way back and have developed all the presets I need. Come on Adobe give your customers what they want. We are the guys who pay for it after all. While you're at it let us sort the order of the preset folders too. Great piece of software otherwise, many, many thanks for that.
    bethaneym223
    bethaneym223
    Participant
    April 15, 2018
    None of these presets add value, no uses them. Why can we not delete? That link doesn’t work and it’s such a waste of scroll space.
    bethaneym223
    bethaneym223
    Participant
    April 15, 2018
    None of these presets add value, no uses them. Why can we not delete? That link doesn’t work and it’s such a waste of scroll space.
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    GergoTothPhoto
    Participant
    April 13, 2018

    Since the last update I have lots of extra presets, which I would love populate a bit better than having 14 presets before mine. Or is there anyway to delete them?

    Thank you

    DSeim
    DSeim
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2018

    You can hide the sets that show up in Camera Raw and they will hide in Lightroom. I talked about it in this video... Using Lightroom presets in Photoshop

    That said the Classic ones are still there and I have found no way to get rid of them. It's Amazing that after all these years of us asking Adobe to stop forcing default presets on us they still have not listened.

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    donrisi
    Participating Frequently
    April 13, 2018


    I do not need the
    default develop presets that installed with Lightroom Classic CC 7.3. 
    Unfortunately, they cannot be deleted.  I tried deleting the ones buried
    with the Lightroom.app file (Mac High Sierra).  They still show up and
    they still work.  

     

    But they can be
    hidden from view.  And for me, out of sight is out of mind.  Here's
    how:


    2. Open
      an image in Adobe Camera Raw.  If for some reason, you can't open an image directly
      into ACR, follow steps a.& b, otherwise, skip to step 2



                  a. Open an image in Photoshop as a Smart Object

                  b. Double click the Smart Object icon in the Layers Panel

                          This opens the image in ACR


    2. Open
      the presets panel

    4. Right click on the preset
      set you wish to hide

    6. Click on "Hide This
      Preset Set"

    8. Repeat for any preset sets
      you wish to hide.

    10. Click OK to close ACR

    12. Close the image.

    14. Return to Lightroom

    16. Close and restart
      Lightroom.  The offending presets will be gone.



     Hope
    this helps to alleviate some of the pain of upgrading to Lightroom Classic
    7.3.
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    ketzaldev
    Known Participant
    April 9, 2018
    Not sure this works on Mac. Couldn't find the folders. Anyone?
    Diko.bg
    Diko.bg
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2018
    Nope, John. I am afraid unfortunately it is NOT working using the GUI only. And opening ACR for this single purpose is ludacris. 😞
    Diko.bg
    Diko.bg
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2018
    Nope. In the C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings
    are ONLY the added additional templates as XMP files. The default 14 in question don't seem to be there. 😉 
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2018
    Indeed. I never use ACR.
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