LIBRARY - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 112

h e contents of a preset
should be only those items
that can be reasonably
applied to many images
simultaneously. Contact
information, copyright
notice, etc. make good
candidates for presets.
Conversely, keywords do not,
since they are very image-
specii c.

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Typically, my presets vary
only in the year of copyright.
All the other information,
such as my address, phone
number, and Web site remain
consistent. h is means that
when entering a new year, all
I need to do is make a new
preset with a copyright change for that year.
See Figure 3-43 for an example of the Metadata Preset Editor.

Figure 3-43

Blank i elds in a metadata template
If you make a metadata preset that includes blank i elds and apply that preset to
photos that had data in those i elds, the blank i elds will overwrite the existing
metadata. For this reason, choose carefully the i elds you include in a preset, and
it's usually a good idea to uncheck any blank i elds to prevent them from being
included in the preset.

To see all the Lightroom presets saved on your computer,
choose Preferences ➔ Presets
…then click the button “Show Lightroom Presets Folder”. h is opens the presets
folder in Finder or Explorer. To remove presets from Lightroom, you can delete
them from their folders. Do this with Lightroom closed; the changes will be
visible when you restart the program.

SYNC METADATA
With multiple photos selected, this button on the right
panel set (see Figure 3-44) and its corresponding menu
command synchronizes i le metadata (but not Develop
settings) between multiple photos. h e settings from

Figure 3-44