One of the cool things about Lightroom is its ability to store develop settings as Presets so you can use them again later to edit other images. In addition to creating and saving your own presets, you can also download presets from the web and use them in Lightroom. In this post, I’ll show you how to create a Lightroom preset and in a future post, I’ll show you how to download and install Lightroom presets you find on the web and also explain how you can share your own presets with others. To get started with presets in Lightroom, select an image in the Develop module which is ready for some creative attention. Just be aware of any settings you have already applied to the image as these will be included in the preset if you don’t specifically exclude them. If you have done a lot of work to get the image to this stage, export a copy and re-import it back into the catalog – there’s an option that does this in one step in the Export dialog. If you now select and work on the edited version, only the upcoming changes will be included in your preset. Now you’re ready to work creatively on the image

How to Create Lightroom Presets