I apply those presets to files during import or when I edit those images shortly thereafter. In Lightroom, I’ve built several “recipes,” or RAW image adjustment combinations in the Develop module, which I’ve saved as presets.
I’ve also got my workspace set up with palettes just as I like to have them and a handful of other presets that come in handy during editing. I’ve spent years developing shortcuts in Photoshop, for instance, which use certain key combinations to trigger Photoshop actions tied to specific editing steps. But I also use a laptop for tethered capture and, when traveling, the occasional round of editing in Lightroom and Photoshop. For me, I have a desktop computer than does the heavy lifting of my image editing, both in Photoshop and Lightroom. If you work on different machines, as many of us do, it can be incredibly handy to have the same presets, shortcut keys and settings apply when working with Photoshop and Lightroom, no matter which machine you’re working on. Adobe allows the installation of its Photoshop and Lightroom software on two different computers.
