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AI Presets in Lightroom: What They Actually Do and When to Use Them
I track the hours my batch systems save me. Obsessively, actually — I’ve got a spreadsheet that currently sits at over 2,400 hours recovered from repetitive post-processing tasks. So when a tool promises to make presets smarter and faster, I pay attention. Not out of optimism, but because I’ve been burned before by “intelligent” features that just added extra steps in disguise. AI presets in Lightroom are different, and it took watching William Patino work through his own philosophy on them for me to fully articulate why.