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Tutorial 84: Understanding Import Presets in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is not easy. Almost everyday, I talk to some Photoshop Lightroom user who is completely confused by Lightroom’s complicated Import Dialog box. The engineer’s at Adobe tried to improve the user experience with this part of the program a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, Adobe’s solution to this common frustration was a disaster and the entire Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015.2 / Lightroom 6.2 product update debacle will probably be remembered as a low-point in the company’s history.

With the Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015.3 / Lightroom 6.3 release today, November 17, 2015, the old Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Import Dialog has been restored! For experienced users like me, this is good news. But for most novice Lightroom users this is not cause for celebration. With today’s Lightroom update, the Import Dialog experience for many will simply shift from vexing to perplexing. Sadly, Import in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom will remain a constant source of chaos and confusion for far too many.

This is a shame because, unlike almost all of the other parts of this program, Import is not a forgiving activity. It is a shame too because there is a way to make the whole Import process fast, predictable, and painless. The secret to conquering Photoshop Lightroom’s Import Dialog requires a rich understanding of the program’s secret Import Presets feature. Once you understand what Lightroom’s Import Presets do, and how to build them, then copying files from a digital camera memory card, or any other storage device, is a piece of cake. Use the appropriate Import Preset every time and your files will never end up in the wrong folder!

So today I give you two-twenty minute long video tutorials on Import Presets. Two detailed tutorials that will hopefully cover just about every type of image Import, and the appropriate Preset, that I can imagine ever using.

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Many thanks to my friend Farshid Ariz for some of the photos that I used in today’s tutorial. Most appreciated Farshid!

This Adobe Photoshop Lightroom / Adobe Photoshop CC tutorial is part of a series of lessons that I have put together on image enhancement. If you are just joining us then I encourage you to review the older posts in the Lightroom Laboratory series. Mastering Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and Adobe Photoshop CC, is much easier if you start the journey with the appropriate background information.

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