Can Lightroom enable chromatic aberration correction by default?

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Lightroom leaves chromatic aberration correction off by default. Why isn’t it always enabled, and is there a way to have it applied automatically so I don’t need to turn it on for every photo?

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To answer the question in the title: Because not every photo has chromatic aberration, and therefore not everyone wants to enable the fix.

Also, since automatic defringing looks for fringe colors to remove, it may actually desaturate parts which are of this color but not fringed, even though this is not very likely. So you would need to go to the menu again to set fringe colors manually to fix this wrong defringing, which would be more frustrating than your case.

To answer how to do it for multiple photos at once:

Enable it for one photo as you already do.
In grid view, select all the photos, including the one you've modified.
Right click > Develop > Sync settings
Here only select the setting you want to sync, i.e. aberration fixing / defringin under lens corrections
Hit enter

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Lightroom doesn’t enable chromatic aberration correction by default because not every image shows visible CA, and automatic defringing can sometimes remove or desaturate colors that aren’t actually fringes. So Adobe leaves it as a user choice.

If you want it on automatically, you have two practical options:

Sync it across selected photos
- Turn on CA correction for one image in Develop.
- In Grid view, select the other images too.
- Use Develop > Sync Settings and sync only the lens correction/defringe setting.
Create a preset and apply it on import
- In Develop, enable CA correction on a photo.
- Create a preset that includes only the CA correction setting.
- During import, choose that preset under Apply During Import > Develop Settings.

The preset approach is the closest to a default, but be careful if you use multiple lenses: lens-related correction behavior may not be ideal across all files.

Can Lightroom enable chromatic aberration correction by default?

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