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Work with external editors

Last updated 11/30/2015

Note: You can also select an external editor by choosing Photo > Edit In Other Application from the Library or Develop

module. You’ll be prompted to navigate to and select the application to use. After you choose an external editor, the

name of the application appears as Edit In [Name of Application] in the Photo menu.

Create an external editor preset

You can create presets for external editors in the External Editing preferences dialog box. External editor presets allow

you to specify multiple applications as external editors and create different photo-handling options for multiple uses

with one or more external editors.

1 In the External Editing preferences, choose an application and specify camera raw file options.

2 Choose Preset > Save Current Settings As New Preset.

3 Type a name for the preset and click Create.

Lightroom adds the new preset to the Preset menu.

Edit an external editor preset

1 In the External Editing preferences, choose an external editor preset from the Preset menu.

2 Change the application or camera raw file options.

Lightroom appends “(edited)” to the end of the preset name.

3 Do one of the following:

• Choose Preset > Save Current Settings As A New Preset to create a new preset. Type a name for the new preset

and click Create.

• Choose Preset > Update Preset “[preset name]” to overwrite the existing preset with your changes.