Lightroom - The Case of the Missing Presets
In preparation for my Lightroom presentation tomorrow at Focus on Imaging, I was going through my demo files and making sure that everything was working properly when it dawned on me that I didn't have any of my PhotoPresets for Lightroom anymore.
For this demo, I wanted to show how you create a Lightroom catalog from scratch, so rather than deleting all of my photos in my current (and previously only) Lightroom catalog, I created a new one. Lightroom 1.1 allows you to have more than one catalog and you can pick which one you want to use when you launch Lightroom. I remember checking a box when I created the new catalog to store the Develop presets with the catalog, not reallly knowing what it would do (dumb I know) but I did it anyway.
Okay, so I figured I'd just find the presets folder and copy my old ones in because I knew where they were. Previous versions of Lightroom let you control click on a preset and you'd have an option to say "Show Preset Folder" and it would pop open. No such luck in Lightroom 1.1.
After a few minutes of frantic searching, I realized where Lightroom looks for CATALOG SPECIFIC presets. Are you ready...they are with the catalog! Duh. Okay, I felt pretty dumb, but now you don't have to worry or panic if you do the same thing.
Find where your new catalog is and in there you'll find all of the presets for each of the Lightroom modules. Just copy your old preset files in and relaunch Lightroom and you'll be good to go. Seems simple, and maybe it is, but if you have a brain cramp like me and are looking for them, hopefully this helps.