Presets

A preset saves adjustments so you can apply them to other photos with one click. Open the Presets panel with P.

The header has four buttons: Explore Community Presets (people icon), Import, Export all and + (save as new preset).

Style and Tool presets

When you save a preset you choose its type:

Type	What it saves	When you apply it
Style (default)	Every setting, including the ones at their default value.	The photo gets exactly the preset's look. Your earlier adjustments are overwritten.
Tool	Only the settings you actually changed.	Only those settings change; everything else on the photo stays as it was.

Examples:

"Moody Film" with tone, color grading, a film emulation and grain: save as Style, so every photo gets the same complete look.
"Fix my 24mm" with only lens correction and a vignette: save as Tool, so it doesn't reset your exposure.
"Portrait skin" with a Face mask and its adjustments: save as Tool with Include Masks.

Saving a preset

Edit a photo until you like it.
Click + in the header, or right-click empty space → New Preset.
Enter a name and choose Style or Tool.
Optionally turn on Include Masks and Include Crop & Transform. Both are off by default.
Click Save.

AI masks inside a preset are recalculated automatically for each photo you apply it to. Inpaint edits (Quick Eraser, Clone and so on) are never part of a preset, because they only make sense on the photo they were made on.

Small icons on a preset card show whether it includes masks or crop.

Applying a preset

Select a photo and click the preset. Click it again to undo it and go back to how the photo looked before.

To apply a preset to many photos: apply it to one photo, then copy and paste the settings to the others (Ctrl+C, select the others, Ctrl+V). Or turn on Enable auto-sync in Copy & Paste Settings before clicking the preset.

Amount

After applying a preset, an Amount slider appears on its card, from 0 to 200 (default 100). Lower values tone the preset down toward neutral, higher values exaggerate it. 50 is often perfect for strong looks on photos that are already colorful.

Organizing

Right-click empty space in the panel for New Preset, New Folder and Sort All Alphabetically. Drag presets into and out of folders and into the order you like.

Right-click a preset for:

Item	What it does
Overwrite	Replaces the preset with the current photo's settings.
Configure Preset	Change name, type and the include options.
Duplicate Preset	Makes a copy to experiment with.
Export Preset	Saves it as a `.rrpreset` file.
Delete Preset	Removes it.

Right-click a folder for Rename Folder, Export Folder and Delete Folder.

Import and export

Import accepts several files at once: RapidRAW presets (.rrpreset) and Lightroom / Camera Raw presets (.xmp and .lrtemplate).
Export all saves all your presets and folders into one .rrpreset file. Good as a backup or to move to another computer.

Lightroom presets are converted to Style presets. These settings are translated: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, vibrance, saturation, clarity, texture (as Structure), dehaze, the HSL mixer, tone curves (point and RGB), color grading and split toning, sharpening, noise reduction, chromatic aberration, vignette and grain. Because the two programs process images differently, a converted preset is a starting point and usually needs small changes.

If an imported preset has the same name as an existing one, a number is added, for example "Golden Hour (1)".

Community presets

Click the people icon in the Presets header or in the library header to open Community Presets, a collection of free presets made by RapidRAW users.

Each card shows the preset applied to photos from your current folder (or a sample image if the folder is empty). The previews are rendered on your computer.
Use Search presets... to find one by name.
Hover a card and click Save to add it. It appears in a Community folder in your Presets panel.

Community Presets page with a grid of preset cards, each previewing the preset on four photos, with the preset name and author — Community Presets, previewed on photos from your current folder.

Right-click your preset → Export Preset.
At the bottom of the Community Presets page, click Create an issue on GitHub. This opens the submission form of the RapidRAW-Presets repository.
Attach your .rrpreset file, give it a clear name and say who made it.

After review, everyone sees your preset in the app.

Where presets are stored

All presets are stored together in one file, presets/presets.json, in RapidRAW's app data folder. See Installation → Where things are stored.

Auto Adjust

Auto Adjust is not a preset but works like one: the magic wand in the Adjustments panel header sets a balanced starting point. Right-click it for Subtle, Normal or Strong.