Send presets to students?

[reidthaler]

Lightroom Version Number

current

Operating System

1. Windows 10

It teach a smartphone photography class featuring Lightroom. Is there any reasonable way to send presets to students? I know they can download images and create presets from settings but that's not really what I'm thinking.

On another note, can I create presets in Lightroom Classic using mask not in the smarthphone/ipad version, like facial features, import them to Lightroom, and have them work on the smartphone/ipad or will it just not be able to re-config the mask?

Thanks,

Reid

 

[art-alexion.co]

You can create presets in the desktop version by opening the preset panel once you have the edits you want in an image. Hit the + to save the edits as a new preset. You can then export the preset for your students to download.

Make sure you include masking in the preset.

Lr iPad supports those masks. Once you apply the preset, you will probably have to go to the masking tab to to relocate the saved masks. Lr should find the new location for them.


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[reidthaler]

You can create presets in the desktop version by opening the preset panel once you have the edits you want in an image. Hit the + to save the edits as a new preset. You can then export the preset for your students to download.

but you can't import presets to Lightroom mobile (smarthphone/ipad)? This would be for student that don't have an adobe subscription

 

[Rob_Cullen]

TBMK At the moment the only way to 'create/import' Develop Presets in Mobile devices is to use a 'carrier' DNG file that has the embedded Develop settings.
I do not know if the Free version of the Mobile App can use presets at all!

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/import-presets-mobile.html
https://community.adobe.com/t5/ligh...dng-presets-in-lightroom-mobile/td-p/10075090

DNG Presets are easy to create in Lightroom-Classic. Any small image (even a tiny JPG) can have a Preset applied, then exported as a DNG. You would then share the DNG file.

 

[art-alexion.co]

but you can't import presets to Lightroom mobile (smarthphone/ipad)? This would be for student that don't have an adobe subscription

Lr Mobile syncs presets from desktop versions. If you don’t have access to a desktop version to start the sync, I’m not sure what your options are


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[reidthaler]

I have the desktop version, but thinking of my students that don't

 

[Paul McFarlane]

We covered this in part of a series we wrote about Presets:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/cloud-import-profiles-presets/

 

[gohixer509]

I think you should save the created presets on any cloud platform and then import the presets through same cloud platform on the smartphone. This is the best way you can help your students.

 

[reidthaler]

I think you should save the created presets on any cloud platform and then import the presets through same cloud platform on the smartphone. This is the best way you can help your students.

I don't know of any way to import presets to a smartphone. Re-creating a preset is not importing.

 

[reidthaler]

We covered this in part of a series we wrote about Presets:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/cloud-import-profiles-presets/

Yes, I'm aware of this approach, but as the article says, "Check all of panels (unless you know the preset only uses specific sliders) and tap Save. This isn’t ideal, as it’ll overwrite any existing edits when you apply the preset to a photo, but it’s better than nothing."

To me, that's not importing but creating a new preset based on settings and fraught with potential issues for new smartphone photography students just starting to learn the Lightroom app.

 

[Rob_Cullen]

This isn’t ideal, as it’ll overwrite any existing edits when you apply the preset to a photo

As part of educating the students about 'creating presets from DNG files', you need to explain the dialog in which it is possible to select and set specific develop items in the dialog. (Check one, check some, check all.)

 

[reidthaler]

Yes, I went over presets last night with my students. I think if I created presets and created screen shots of what settings to save, then that might work, but may be a better lesson to tell them to make their own presets with specific effects

 

[Rob_Cullen]

a better lesson to tell them to make their own presets with specific effects

Exactly.! Yes.