Can you apply a Lightroom 3 preset at partial strength?
Asked 8/31/2010
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In Lightroom 3, is there any built-in way to apply a develop preset at less than full strength, such as 50%? Some presets look too strong, and I’d like to reduce their effect without manually changing every individual slider.
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
16y ago
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There is a plugin for Lightroom 3 which does exactly that: http://www.knobroom.com/thefader/
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Lightroom 3 does not have a built-in control to apply a preset at partial strength. Presets are applied as fixed develop settings, so there’s no native “fade preset” slider.
If you want that behavior, one community-suggested option is a Lightroom 3 plugin called The Fader, which is designed to reduce or increase the strength of a preset after applying it.
Another workaround is to use Photoshop: create a virtual copy, apply the preset to that copy, send both the original and the preset version to Photoshop as separate layers, then reduce the opacity of the preset layer. That effectively blends between the original and the fully preset-applied version.
Otherwise, in Lightroom itself, the practical alternative is to manually back off the individual adjustment sliders affected by the preset.
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