Step Three: Press Enter/Return, to create a new adjustment, and single-click just below that first pin, then apply a different local adjustment preset.

Step Two: Grab the Adjustment Brush, and single-click somewhere at the top of the photo, then select the local adjustment preset you want to transfer to ACR. I picked one that had a lot of open blue sky. Step One: Starting in LrC, select a raw photo (just to make this easier), and preferably one that doesn’t have any other settings, and to really make it easy on yourself, one that makes it easy to see where the local adjustment pins are located. So, the simplest way I found to transfer the settings in a given local adjustment preset from LrC to ACR is to apply them to a photo, then open that photo in ACR, and create the preset from the existing settings.

lrtemplate file format, which ACR does not use. LrC still saves local adjustment presets in a.

As such, like me, you have have been creating or installing local adjustment presets for years, and you might like to have them accessible in ACR. My assumption here on Lightroom Killer Tips is that if you are reading this, you are a person who primarily uses LrC or Lr, like me. In LrC, if you select any of the three local adjustment tools - Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, or Radial Filter - you will find they share the same panel of adjustment options, and the ability to save a given configuration of adjustments as a preset.ĪCR has this same functionality, but it doesn’t come with a set of default local adjustment presets like LrC does, and so, you need to create all of your own presets. Here’s how you can manually transfer the local adjustment presets you have in LrC to ACR. However, despite sharing develop presets local adjustment presets are unrelated silos that exist separately in both programs. Ever since Lightroom Classic (LrC) and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) began sharing develop presets I’ve found myself using ACR more and more, such as when sending a copy as a smart object from LrC.

Lightroom brushes presets