So recently I took this portrait of my friend Steve Healy
and from the retouching that I did
in Lightroom, giving the portrait the finishing touches,
I shared the steps in the Lightroom community and by doing so,
making what I did downloadable as a preset for anyone to install
into their own versions of Lightroom or Lightroom Classic and make use of it.
However, since I did this,
I've had a few messages from people saying
that they've been unable to get the preset,
so I thought I'd put this short video together
just showing the step by step process for downloading
and installing it.
So first of all, click on the link that takes you to the Lightroom
Community page, where you'll find the portrait of my friend Steve.
This link you'll find in the description of this video.
It's also over on my website.
When you click on
the link, if you don't have Lightroom installed,
you'll be redirected to the Lightroom Community page on the web.
If you do have Lightroom installed, then Lightroom
will open in the community tab.
If you use Lightroom in your web browser, you'll need to sign
into your Adobe account.
Either way, this is what you'll see.
Here you see the portrait in the main part of the screen,
and on the right hand side you can see all of the edits.
if you click on the portrait, in the form of a video
you'll see each of the edits being applied and see how that affects the portrait.
So this is also a great learning resource.
Underneath you see thumbnails and these are remixes done
by people who have accessed the preset and added some of their own touches.
There's
also an information tab where you can see some metadata,
such as the camera and lens that was used and the camera settings.
But in the main edits section,
there's a button to save as preset, so click on that.
Now for this you do need to have Lightroom installed,
even if you're a Lightroom Classic user.
So here you can then give the preset a name,
choose where you want the preset to be saved
and Saved from Community is the default but you could also save
in the User Presets folder or create a new group to save it in.
And these relate to Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic,
which is why you would need to install it if you hadn't already.
So then click on Save.
Then in Lightroom I'll go to the presets section
and in my case, the saved from community folder,
which is what I chose when saving the preset,
and here it is.
So if you use Lightroom
be it on the desktop, your iPad or mobile device,
you'll see the preset there and available to use.
But if you're a Lightroom Classic user, you just need to do this.
In Lightroom, right click on the preset and choose export.
Choose where you want to export it to.
In this example, I'll just put it on my desktop.
Then in Lightroom Classic,
go to the presets section in the develop module,
click on the plus icon and import presets.
Select the preset and click on import.
The preset will then be added into the folder that you chose,
and you're good to go.
Now before I go,
seeing as this video was about Lightroom and Lightroom Classic,
I just wanted to give you the heads up that the Lightroom Virtual Summit 2024
is coming in May, running from May the 20th through May 24th.
This is a free five day event with 15 instructors
teaching 45 classes with over 30 hours of content all about Lightroom
and Lightroom Classic for beginners thru advanced users.
You can grab a free pass using this link,
which I've also included in the description.
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