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Lightroom Tip – Resetting Your Presets
What better way to start off a Friday on a holiday weekend (here in the US at least) than with a Lightroom tip 
OK, so have you ever ruined the Lightroom default presets or deleted one of them all together or just done something plain bad to them? Now you can’t get it back to the way it used to be right? Well, if you go to Lightroom’s preferences dialog by clicking on the Lightroom menu on Mac (Edit menu on PC), you’ll see a Presets tab. Go ahead and click on it. You’ll get something that looks like this window here:
The bottom of the dialog shows a way to reset all of Lightroom’s presets. But not just all of them in one full swoop. The cool part is that you can reset any one area you want by clicking on the button. So if I just want to get back to my original Export presets then I just click that button instead of resetting all presets in Lightroom. Plus, as a side tip, it’s always a cool way to find your presets if you’re not sure where Lightroom keeps them. There’s a button right in the middle that will show you where they are.
That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend!
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Hey Matt! Thanks for the tip. I was wondering if you could answer a LR question regarding keywords. Is there a way to have one master keyword list for all Catalogs?
I recently split up my one catalog into 4 different ones (Nature, Portraits, Travel, and Work). However, when reorganized the keywords in my Nature catalog, and then headed over to my Portraits catalog, I noticed that it didn’t update. Is there a way to either have one master keyword list, or have them all sync together?
Thanks!
Miguel,
When I have the keywords I want for several Catalogs I export the list. This becomes my master. Then Import the Master list into each Catalog. The Negative is if I make changes in one catalog which needs also to be across all catalogs I either have to re-export / import or make the same change in each catlg manually. At least this is faster than manually entering all keywords into each catlg.
Matt! I got a request/challenge to you:
to make a “perfect” basic pop/sharpen preset, for the raw images you just dont want to do much to