Masks as Presets

[ArranDCB]

Lightroom Version Number

Classic 11.1

Operating System

1. macOS 12 Monterey

I am really enjoying Lightroom's new selections and masking capabilities but I am struggling to save masks as presets in a newly named group. Here's my workflow;

1. I create a colour range mask.
2. I name it 'All Mono but Leaves'
3. I go to Develop/New Preset
4. In the new window, in Preset Name I am offered "Unnamed Preset" in the group "User Presets"
5. I select "Check None" and then select "Masks" and "All Mono but Leaves"
6. I then go to "Unnamed Preset" and rename it to "All Mono but Leaves"
7. I then go to the group to and select "New Group"
8. I try and rename the new group to eg "LR Masks" BUT I cannot save that name. The new group can not be saved and my only option is to save the preset in "User Presets" which I don't want to do.

Can anyone help with this. I know I am missing something simple but I can't work it out.

TIA

David Brookens

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Hi David

I'm not able to repro here (on Big Sur but can't see that makes any difference) - try creating the new Group first, then drag the mask to it? It breaks down the steps, might reveal where it's tripping up.

 

[ArranDCB]

Thanks for this Paul (and for the email) but I can't do that either. I click on the + button Presets folder but the only option I get is "Create Preset" which takes me back to step 4 in my list.

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Okay, that's helpful actually - means it's not to do with Masks in Presets!

So, just to clarify steps that work for me (just making a Group):

Hit + on Presets in Develop
Dropdown Group: select New Group
Give it a name (is this where it fails for you?)
Create
Then hit Create again for the preset

Where does it fail for you?

 

[ArranDCB]

When I click + on the Presets folder the only options I get in the dropdown are "Create Presets", "Import Presets" and "Manage Presets"

 

[ArranDCB]

(Sorry Paul I've responded to the email as well. Confusing. I'll stick with the forum)

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Sorry, missed one important expression!!!

Hit + on Presets in Develop and Create Preset
Dropdown Group: select New Group
Give it a name (is this where it fails for you?)
Create
Then hit Create again for the preset

 

[ArranDCB]

Got it Paul!! I was inserting a (space) between "LR" and "Masks" in the group name. Now I've named the group LRMasks - no space - and that's it sorted .
Hardly intuitive but "Euf'inreka"!
Thanks for your help

David

PS This is probably covered in Vitoria's book (and I should probably have found it) but if not it might be worthy of a mention

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Hi David

Most odd, I can create a Group with a space - we'll check if that's a bug when using Monterey (I'm on Big Sur)

You can then rename the Group...

 

[ArranDCB]

PS Paul
I got this from the Facebook group "Lightroom Help Group - Intermediate and Advanced. It transpires that in my preferences/file handling I had set "spaces to be replaced with underscores". I don't recall having that in Big Sur but I can't be certain. I've reset it now to "Leave as is" so it should not arise again. What a puzzler.

Thanks for the help

 

[johnrellis]

David, thanks for providing all the details on this -- I filed a bug report with Adobe:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/ligh...is-set-to-quot-replace-with-an/idi-p/12709435

 

[johnrellis]

Adobe's Rikk Flohr acknowledged the bug report and filed it internally with the LR team.