This is how you can “trick” Adobe into letting you copy your own mobile presets. STEP 5. Once you have opened a DNG file, it’s almost like editing a regular JPG file, only DNG files have preset settings already layered on top.

STEP 4. Now we finally get to use your phone! This is the trickiest part, you have to “OPEN” the DNG file using Lightroom Mobile I recommend Dropbox for this, but both methods work! Using Gmail STEP 3. On your laptop EMAIL or use some other way to send a DNG file to your phone. Using our popular Sakura preset as an example Open zip folder, find DNG folder On your laptop download our presets and look for the DNG files. Presets are usually packaged together in Zip files. You may want to open this blog post on your laptop because your phone will be busy! Make sure you have your phone + laptop nearby and your Lightroom CC Mobile is updated. If you’re unclear, just follow these simple steps:

But in order to get the right settings, you have to have a DNG file, which is simply an image with a preset layered on top of it. The idea is that you can take the preset settings for any photo on mobile, and clone it as your own preset. This is a work-around to getting Lightroom Presets working on your mobile. It has a lot of clunky features that you won’t need and takes up too much hard drive space)īut what if you just want to try it out for free, no strings attached? Lightroom Classic CC (NOT a must have.Lightroom CC Mobile (Must have for IG!).

Most plans offer all 3 versions of Lightroom: Personally, we use Adobe’s Photographer subscription. This is a guide to getting presets working on mobile, even if you don’t have an Adobe Subscription.

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