Creating develop settings for lightroom 2

Creating develop settings for lightroom 2.

Many have complaint about how Lightroom 2 automatically applies develop settings to preview or thumbs when importing images although there is nothing chosen in the import dialogue.

To prevent this and start from scratch when working on images that have multiple in camera presets or when working with jpgs you might want to do your own developing preset that is zeroed out.

In Lightroom 2 there is a preset for this but it does not zero out every thing as it states.
So to make your own this is how you do it.

Start by going to the develop module.

Choose any image that is there.

to the left is the pallet for Lightroom presets.

Select General Zero as the preset.
This will change the image and make it looking flat. Then you go down the pallets and set every thing you can to zero.

First you would like to take the color heat pallet or kelvin degree pallet or what ever one wants to call it. Set it to As shot

Then make sure that every thing is zeroed out in the basic pallet:

The next pallet to change is the tone curve pallet:

After the tone curve is the Detail pallet:
Zero out every thing there:

Now you are ready to save the preset. You can do it by clicking on the +sign on the presets pallet or you can go to
Develop
-->New preset

Save this pallet under a name you understand and remember and choose the folder where you want to keep the preset under. Default is the user presets folder. It will now show up there

Now when importing images you can select this as the development preset and it should see to it that the images appear as they com straight out of the cow. Sorry your camera.