How to Install Lightroom Presets on a Mac

You can use presets to process your digital photos.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom supports installable presets, which apply multiple effects to an image with a single click. Lightroom includes some presets, and you can also make your own or download and install presets from the Web. After downloading a preset’s “.lrtemplate” file, you can place it in Lightroom’s application support folder on your Mac to make it available in Lightroom. Installed presets appear under User Presets in the Presets pane.

Instructions

1. Open the Finder application by clicking its icon on your dock.

2. Click the “Go” menu, press and hold the “Option” key on your keyboard and click the “Library” location that appears in the Go menu.

3. Navigate to the “Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom” folder in the Library folder.

4. Drag and drop Lightroom preset files with file names ending in “.lrtemplate” into the Lightroom folder.

Tips & Warnings

• Create your own preset from the current photo’s settings by clicking the “Develop” menu and selecting “New Preset.” You can name the preset and select which of the current photo’s settings you want to include in the dialogue box that appears.

References

• Adobe: Preference and Other File Locations | Lighroom 3.x
• Adobe: Access Hidden User Library Files | Mac OS 10.7 Lion
• Adobe: Create and Apply Develop Presets

Resources

• Adobe: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom