Tutorial: How to import presets into Adobe Lightroom
Some people has contact me and asked me how they manage to “install” the presets they download, into Lightroom 2. It’s not that hard really. A few simple clicks and you´re set to go for the effects. The best way to describe this is simply by showing you a screencast i just made a few minutes ago. Grab a handful of popcorn cause that’s all you can eat before the movie has ended 
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January 1st, 2009 at 3:16 am
I dont see a preset button on the side. Am i doing something wrong or do i not have the same version as you. Ive looked everywhere and i cant install these. Please email me if you can and help. Thanks
January 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Check your mail Akeara.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
hi,
I’m having a similar problem as the rightclick does result in opening “new folder / import” option in my version (2.0). Could you help me? I would greatly appreciate this.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hi Ula,
If you’re in the “Develop”-mode in Lightroom, you should see the Preset menu to the left.
Your sidebars might be hidden and that could be the reason to why you can’t see them.
If they are hidden you’ll see a small arrow instead of the sidebar. Pressing this arrow will expand the sidebar.
Remember. You have to be in the “Develop” mode. Press “D” on your keyboard to enter Develop mode.
Please explain further if this didn’t solve your problem.
//Pierre
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Hello, I have had some trouble with importing presets as well. I uploaded about 8 of the presets from your site and downloaded them to a folder on my desktop. When I first uploaded them they were folders with zippers on them, whick I understand that they are zip files. Then I followed the directions by going into lightroom 2, develop tab, i located the presets on the left panel, right clicked on “user presets”, selected import, ….pause…the first time i did this, after selecting import the box appeared for me to select the folder it was in, after doing that all the presets appeared in there and so i clicked on one and imported it. It worked just fine. the preset I imported was just a test and it wasn’t one that I would probably use regularly so I right clicked on it in user preset and deleted it. So, I went back the next day to import the rest of the preset I hade downloaded….doing the exact same thing but this time after I selected the import option, it opened up the locator box, I located it as I had done before BUT THIS time it doesn’t show that there are any presets in there. At the bottom of that box is the “file type” and it won’t give me any other options to see different types of files in it. It only let’s me see “Supported files (*lrtemplates)” and it basically tells me there isn’t any in that file. But when I go to the file on my desktop and open it, they are all still in there AND now they are not little folders with zippers on them they all are white rectangles with a big Lr’s on them. ??? I called Adobe and they are not any help because they say that this is not an adobe supported website. *note* I called a friend of mine who also has lr, she said she was able to import all the presets before, but NOW she is having the same trouble I am all the sudden*?? Any insite on this?? HELP! L~
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 am
It’s me again! Sorry about the huge long message I left before!
I DID figure it out FINALLY! How frustrating…it was an easy fix….my wonderful vista driven gateway was not extracting the files properly! So even though I thought they were extracted…they weren’t…so Lr could not import them. What a day!
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
Hi Lisa,
great you found out how to solve it!
December 12th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Just discovered your site and loving it but here’s my dilemma. When I try to download a preset this pops up, “Safari can’t open the file “PH Childhood BW.lrtemplate” because no available application can open it.”. I have a Macbook, is there any settings I should tweak or what application do i need to download them. Thanks.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Hi Adam,
First, you need to download the file to your desktop. Safari might try to open it directly (when you click on the download button) but that is not what you want! First download it, then install/import the file in Adobe Lightroom. Perhaps it works better if you ctrl-click on the “download” link and chose “Download linked file as”?
Pleas let me know if this solved your problem.
Best regards, Pierre