Lightroom preset and profiles - confused

Digital Camera Scanning
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Hello,

I’m sorry if this has been answered, I could not find enough information in the guide or forum.

I just started using NLP which I bought 3 years ago (lack of time). I directly installed the 3.02 after buying the upgrade. I’m using Lightroom classic (latest).

I did some tests recently in order to understand the process and the numerous options and settings. While the conversion process, choice of settings and tone profiles in NLP seem clear and easy to understand, once the conversion is done, I’m back in Lightroom with some confusion.

In the Library Module, under the presets section in a “folder” called “NLP Enhanced Settings”, I find a ton of NLP-xxxxxxx etc presets. My first concern is that I do not know if I need to chose one, which ones are relevant. Also, I noticed a lot of those include 2.3 in the name, but I don’t remember having installed NLP 2.3 on this machine.

My second issue is that in the develop module, I also find a lot of profiles in 2 folders “Negative Lab Pro” with 45 of them all named “Negative Lab v2.3 xxxxx”, and “NLP enhanced Settings” with 4 of them having similar names which seem to be missing from the other folder. And finally another folder named “Profiles” with only one profile int it called “Negative Lab Pro v2.3”. Those folders appeared next to the regular Adobe, Camera Matching and other profile folders.

I don’t understand if there is a relation between those NLP library settings and develop settings, why they are NLP 2.3, and ultimately what to do with all this.

Sorry if this looks basic to some of you, but I’m a regular LR user doing just photography but not digital scanning.

Thanks for any help and clarification

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You don’t need to select any of those directly. Those are all just there for Negative Lab Pro to access as needed.

But also, don’t hide them or remove them, as NLP needs them to function properly.

-Nate

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Thanks Nate, I did not intend to remove anything, just trying to understand the interaction. Can you elaborate more about the “don’t need to select any of those” ? Are you referring to the 2.3 ones or all of those presets and profiles ? Am I supposed to totally ignore all ?

Also, is it expected to have all those presets and profiles labeled “2.3” ?

Thanks again

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Yep. There is nothing you need to do with these, it is all taken care of for you in the Negative Lab Pro interface itself.

Yep! That is the latest profile version (the profiles don’t increment with new versions, only when there is a change).