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How much should you charge for a photograph?Removing the default Lightroom Develop Presets
With the increased size of Lightroom Presets in Develop, making the Saved Presets menu in Quick Develop even longer, here’s how to remove the default set if you’re not using them.
Mac: Right (or Control) click on Adobe Lightroom 3.app and choose ‘Show Package Contents’ from the menu. Open Contents, then double click to open ‘Plugins’. Right (or Control) click on ‘Develop.lrmodule’ and choose ‘Show Package Contents’ from the menu. Open Contents, then double click to open ‘Resources’. Search for the folder ‘templates’. Move this to the Desktop, or elsewhere in case you want it again. Restart Lightroom.
PC: Now here’s the can of worms. Using XN Resource Editor with XP, go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom 3.2\ and load Develop.lrmodule (it may just be Develop). The top item is LRTEMPLATE. You need to open each branch in the tree by clicking the +, then right click on each ‘English’ file and choose Delete Resource. Save the file and close XN. Start Lightroom.
I can’t find any free resource editors that will open this on Win 7 or Vista, but there are paid ones that allow it. (ResEdit is free, but won’t open the file). Resource Tuner is actually quicker, as you can delete the entire LRTEMPLATE tree in one go, by right clicking and selecting ‘Delete Resource’, then saving. The 30 day trial will do this, but after that it’s $40.
Disclaimer: Use this tip at your own risk. No responsibility for any damage is applicable to Lightroom Blog, or me, Sean McCormack if you do use it. Also this will only work until you reinstall or update Lightroom to a newer version, where you’ll need to repeat the process.
Of course now that I’ve done this and posted it, someone will find an easier way, but that’s okay!
Comments
wonderful!!
I’m on Win7, so I’ll use the trial of resource tuner, but any idea if it will be automatically restored by the next LR update?
Update, Resource Tuner won’t work with 64 bit LR in Win7.
“The file you are trying to open is a 64-bit executable. The current version of Resource Tuner opens the 32-bit files only. Support for 64-bit files will be available in version 2.”
Hi. I have found that Resource Hacker will do it for 64-bit Vista.
http://download.cnet.com/Resource-Hacker/3000-2352_4-10178587.html
"http://download.cnet.com/Resource-Hacker/3000-2352_4-10178587.html"
Doesn't work with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
I have LR3.3. My develop preset list somehow got duplicated so I had the default list plus another set with the same names below that.
I got CFF Explorer and tried deleting the develop templates. That got rid of the duplicate presets but the original set is still there.
Before I did anything I changed the name of the module to develop.lrmodule.0 and that's the file I edited. I then saved it to develop.lrmodule and used it in LR. It is a smaller file, so things were removed from it.
However, I still have a long list of default presets which CFF Explorer doesn't see, so I can't delete them.
Hi,
thanks for these tips Sean. Worked fine with win7 x64, but though the settings have gone in develop module, they're still there in quick settings in library module and when importing. Can those be erased too?
cheers,
Seth
It will be. I mentioned reinstalls and updates near the end.
Don’t have Win 7 to test it, sorry. Do a search for Win 7 Resource Editor, you should find something (ResEdit does have a 64 version, but doesn’t read the file, unfortunately).
BTW, Sean thanks for this. It’s been driving me gaga having to scroll through the huge number of default presets that I never use!
Also, people should run ResHacker as an Administrator.
sean, ken here. thanks a lot for this writeup! i’ll be trying it later today. i do run win7x64 so it might be a battle.
sean, update… used XN resource editor successfully on a win7x64 platform.
was a bit tedious going line by line, but it didn’t take that long. 10 mins tops.
obviously i made a backup of the develop.lrmodule before i hacked it.
works fine with win7 en 64-bits.
thank you very much, makes importing and adding my own presets a lot quicker.
Thanks for this information. I am using Vista and went through the steps with XN Resource Editor deleting line by line and saving, however when I restart LR3, all the presets are still there. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips?
Are you definitely overwriting the file?
How can I verify that I am overwriting the file? Do I need to save each individual file, or the LRTEMPLATE folder as a whole?
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