Artists Down Under – August 2019

SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION

By Andrew Haysom

DOWN UNDER

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Australia and New Zealand

LIGHTROOM PRESETS IN ADOBE CAMERA RAW

Lightroom Presets now appear in Adobe Camera Raw

With the update to Lightroom Classic 7.3 in April 2018, Adobe introduced changes to Lightroom Develop presets. How the files they saved as changed

from .lrtemplate to .xmp extension and their location on the hard disk was changed to the following;

Windows

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings

Mac

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings

Old format files were automatically converted and moved to the new location when you loaded the new version of Lightroom for the first time. If you

import old format templates into a newer version they are automatically converted at import time.

If like me you are not a Lightroom user (I just use Photoshop), the other advantage is that the presets imported into Lightroom automatically become

available in the Presets tab in Adobe Camera Raw (see Figure 1).

[Fig 1 – ACR Presets Panel]

So, if you have obtained some Lightroom presets, just run Lightroom and import them to make them available in Adobe Camera Raw.