Conditional Lightroom Presets

[theurbanclown]

Is there any way to create conditional presets for batch processing, in Lightroom?

For example, if you had two images, one at a white balance of 4000 and the other at 5200, but wanted to warm both of them by 400 - rather than turn them both to 4400, or 5600.

Is there a way to do that? I'm using LR3.

 

[JonathanRyan]

Yes. Well kind of - not directly via preset.

In the LIBRARY module (not the develop) select the images and hit the "make warmer" button (temperature right arrow). That adds about 300K relative to the current whibal.

If you do it in develop it's an absolute change.

 

[theurbanclown]

Yes. Well kind of - not directly via preset.

In the LIBRARY module (not the develop) select the images and hit the "make warmer" button (temperature right arrow). That adds about 300K relative to the current whibal.

If you do it in develop it's an absolute change.

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks.

It's very basic. Has it been improved in LR4? If it was in the develop module and the settings could be more specific, it'd be much more useful.

 

[JonathanRyan]

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks.

It's very basic. Has it been improved in LR4? If it was in the develop module and the settings could be more specific, it'd be much more useful.

No - it's just the same in 4

Develop is for one photo and is absolute - Library is relative. Which kind of makes sense.