Follow Directions Below for the Step by Step Instructions
If all you’re doing is downloading one Lightroom preset that you’ve downloaded online or something like that, installing presets is really simple.
Go to the develop module in Lightroom. Select a photo. Right click > import and you can import the preset you just downloaded.
When you want to import a collection of presets, however, we have to do it a little differently because we want the entire folder of presets to be imported so that they are nicely organized in your library.
Before you begin, backup your current Lightroom presets. Every once in a while, I’ve seen Lightroom create problems and lose presets when others are installed.
Step 1: Here we are going to create a dummy preset. Select a photo and go wild with your sliders. It doesn’t matter what you do to alter the photo. Then hit the plus button and we’re going to call this “random”. Underneath where you name the preset, click inside the folder box to select a folder. Go to new folder and name it “random”. Click create.
Now we should have the new preset that we made showing up in Lightroom on the left under Presets. Right click on that > show in finder OR for Windows, it’s going to say show in Windows Explore. Great! Now if we look at the folder trail, we can see where Lightroom saves any new presets.
Step 2: Locate presets folder. Open up a new finder window or a new Windows Explorer window then find the the presets you just downloaded. Usually after you download something, you can find it by going to your recent downloads on your computer.
When you find the presets you just downloaded, they are going to be zipped and you have to unzip them. To unzip them either double click the presets, or right click on the presets and mouse over the unzip option. Or use an unzip program if you’re using an older computer.
Step 3: Locate the file you just unzipped. Select all of the files and hit control > copy. Go over to where Lightroom puts your presets folder and click paste.
Step 4: Restart Lightroom. When you restart Lightroom, all of the presets should be there for you to mouse through and they should be there nicely in folders for you.
If you wish to further your knowledge in using Lightroom or simply Lightroom presets, you can go to our article A Beginner Introduction to Lightroom Presets. I have been working on my presets for years and I have lots available for free on my website. I know you’ll love them.
Sent an email to Jim at [email protected] to have him look into it.
Hi Jim,
When I downloaded the 2016 preset steal they where not in the folders, is there a list of which folders that they should be in?
Keith
I am having the same issue as others. No folder for each batch of presets. When I open the downloaded file, it is already unzipped and I can only copy the individual files, not folders to the presets. iMac, Lightroom CC, latest update.
Thanks,
Karen
***HELP ORGANIZING***
Same as everyone else, the folders from past years are tremendously helpful. Jim, I don’t need a fancy solution here, just simply tell me which presets are for which genre, i.e. landscapes, portraits, real estate, night photography, etc. I can organize from there.
I have resisted buying presets because I don’t know what to do with them after. I watched the video but you’re working on a Mac. I have windows. I can’t see when you are in LR or when you are not. It’s hard for me to follow.
Everyone seams to love your preset and I hope I will too.
Thanks
I just loaded the new presets but my old presets I bought from you vanished and I cannot locate them on my hard drive. Please help! I love the presets I purchased in the past.
Thanks Jim for correcting the 2016 Lightroom Steal in a timely manner. You are awesome! This time, the new download has all the presets organized into folders. It was very easy to install the presets into Lightroom. After installing and reopening Lightroom, all the 2016 presets are organized into folders such as B&W Trends – 2016 ImprovePhotography, Portrait Style -2016 ImprovePhotography, etc. Make sure you make up a BACKUP of your presets since they can vanish like what happened to Heather. Everyone should have had a new email sent to them with the link to the corrected LR Steal. Make sure you follow the instructions Jim gave you without doing any shortcuts, and you will have no problems with the installation.
Included in the LR steal is a coupon for a Lightroom 101 online class, preset-installation instructions, video trainings, and webinars, this time all organized into nice folders.
Great job! I can’t wait to try out the new presets and to watch the videos and webinars. Happy holidays!
Forgot to mention, make sure you listen to the Improve Photography podcast, episode 150, on Processing Tips. Jim gives valuable information on how to use the 2016 presets.
By the way, I have a PC, so although the video Jim made was using a Mac, you should have no problem installing it with Windows.
Trying to install these presets on Windows PC. When I right click on “random” preset file that was created & go to the location shown in Explorer it shows just a PDF file that can’t be opened or saved to. What has happened?
Ken
I cannot add my new presets to LR as per Jim’s instructions.
I followed the instructions for adding my presets and it did not work. Everything went well until I got to the part that says ALL FILES ARE ZIPPED. The files I received in the download were NOT ZIPPED, however, I cannot open them.
What do I do now?
Please advise
Thank you
Got the Presets — AWESOME! Where do I view the Flash course? Did I miss something?
It’s in your download package, RevTim.
Ooops . . . thanks! Thought it was going to be something with a password or something attached to it. Another “love the show, love the presets” prop for ya. Thank you for your team working so hard to bring us photo happiness!
I have not received email for my presets? Bought several weeks ago?
Seriously the easiest way to import and organize presets! I have followed instructions that have come with presets I have purchased from other providers and they make it so complicated and my Lightroom is a mess afterward. Everything is now in neat folders and easy to find. Thank you!!
Path tried: /Users/Dnalloh/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Develop Presets/test/Special Situations – 2016 ImprovePhotography/Basic Night Sky – I.P.lrtemplate
Have you ever gotten this. It doesn’t seem to want to find any of my presets?
Great Deal !! Thanks
I also need the corrected install presets. The ones I have do not have folders.
I wrote in yesterday that I need the corrected version of the 2016 presets. I do not have folders with mine.
Hey Ellen,
Thanks for your message and sorry for the troubles. Please send us an e-mail at [email protected] and we’d be happy to help.
There are tons of ways to install Lightroom presets and yours are simply the easiest. How were you able to come up with this technique?
Okay, I’m stuck. Running Adobe CC apps in Windows 10 on a capable Dell desktop. Created the “Random” preset and saved it. It then showed on the Presets list, as you indicated it would. Unfortunately, right-clicking on the preset name in Windows 10 does not lead to a “Show in _____” option to see the filepath.
So, I tried it the hard way. I looked at the Preset files in the six Improve Photography LR Steal folders I had unzipped: B&W Trends, Landscape Photos, etc. Saw that the files in these folders were all *.lrtemplate file extension. So I searched my hard drive for that file extension and found a bunch in several folders at this location:
C:\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom (Greg is my name)
I also searched Adobe Help for “location of presets in Windows” and it specified the same location. Thus encouraged, I copied your six folders to that location, closed Lightroom, opened it again in excited anticipation… to find absolutely nothing new listed under the Presets menu!! Nor do I see any of the five presets that were already in that location, under a file named Local Adjustment Presets (files such as “Soften Skin”, “Teeth Whitening”, etc.) The only Presets listed under my Lightroom Develop tab are seven pre-installed default categories of “Lightroom B&W Filter Presets”, “Lightroom Color Presets”, etc.
Please help! How do I access the presets I bought?
It shows up when I copied the unzipped folder at this location on my Mac, \Library\Application Support\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Preset\User Presets
So for windows, I would go two folder deeper to “Develop Preset\User Preset\ ” and copy the whole unzipped folder there.
Hi Folks,
I purchased Lightroom Steal Presets on 1 Dec. 2015 with a view to stepping up to Creative Cloud in early 2016.
Have recently done so [better late than never] however, I am only seeing 12 PRESETS not the 93 I expected. Thinking I had/have made a mistake in the downloading, I deleted everything and started again from scratch …same thing.
My wife [a bit of a computer wizz] then tried again with the same result. We do believe we have followed the video tutorial and the written download procedures correctly. The PRESETS we are getting are as follows :-
B & W STREET STYLE – BLUE HOUR – CITY GRIT – CITY GRIT ABSURD – CITY GRIT ABSURD EXTREME
DESATURATED CRUNCH – DESATURATED CRUNCH 2 – EXTREME MINIMALISM SPECIAL EFFECT – FILM STOCK
MINIMAL – SUPER MINIMAL SPECIAL EFFECT and WARM MINIMAL.
Can you good folk help me? Are we missing a step? Are there “sub folders” to these presets?
Kind Regards,
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