Lightroom Develop presets?

[davidedric]

Hi everyone,

Do you make use of Lightroom Develop presets (note I do mean presets, and not plug-ins)? Have you ever bought or acquired any?

I do make use of a couple of the General built in presets, but in general no. I wonder if I'm missing a trick.

Apologies of this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it (and anyway, things change )

Dave

[Shadowman]

I've tried the built in presets but I generally don't like the results. They are quite similar to using the AUTO exposure function, to me the highlights get blown out by default. I use NIK plug-ins and often find I have to tweak these over the default settings as well. If I'm not mistaken, you can create your own presets based on your own workflow.

[chauncey]

Hey Dave...it's my bad that I've never availed myself of them as I would think, for the visually
impaired such as myself, that scrolling through a ton of them would help determine in what
direction to take an image.

[Simon Garrett]

The only presets I regularly use are ones I've created myself. I've created a set that do nothing except apply a camera profile such as "Camera Standard", "Camera Landscape" etc.

For Nikon raws the default Adobe Standard profile isn't usually optimum, so when importing images, I apply a develop preset that applies the profile that I reckon is going to be the best starting point for that shoot (normally Camera Standard - sometimes one I've made with Colorchecker Passport).

[dje]

Dave I use ACR rather than LR but the same principles apply. I use a starting preset on every image I process, containing the following adjustments

Camera profile
Automatic lens correction
My standard starting point for capture sharpening and noise control
A small amount of Clarity and Vibrance

I have made a few of these presets for different ISO settings used (different noise reduction)

The approach is aimed at getting me quickly to a good starting point for further editing with steps that are always required and may not need further adjustment.

Dave

[pnodrog]

I use presets I have created on just about all of the images I develop. My Nikon D200 and D800 require different initial adjustments particularly sharpening and noise handling. For work I often use the D800 in DX mode with higher ISO (house interiors and only smaller files required) and so there is a preset for these images as well.

For me being able to customise presets is an important feature of Lightroom.

Setting camera profiles is also an option that I have not investigated fully but I find develop presets easy to use and very flexible.