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How To Install Lightroom Mobile Presets Without Desktop

This is how you can install Lightroom Mobile presets into the app on your phone, without using the desktop version at all. You will be able to save them as presets and apply them with one click.

Step 1: Download the DNG files to your phone

Mobile presets come in a DNG file format. Some sellers allow direct download of the DNG files but some compress the files into a ZIP format.

Note: If your presets are in XMP or lrtemplate format, they are for Lightroom Desktop, not Mobile.

If you see a DNG file when you click on your download link, skip directly to Step 2.

If you see a ZIP file, then you need to unzip the presets first.

Option A – Unzip files directly on your phone

You can use apps like iZip to unzip the file on your phone without a desktop computer. First make sure you download the iZip app to your phone (iOS or Android). Then click to download the file and tap on Open in iZip

Now you have all of your DNG files inside your iZip app.

Step 2: Import preset files into Lightroom Mobile 

At this point you should have all of your DNG files saved to your phone – either in your iZip app or in your camera roll. The files serve as “preset carriers” and now you just need to add them to Lightroom mobile and save presets out of them.

If you go into your photo stream and see them as blank picture files, don’t be alarmed – that’s how they should look.

If you downloaded your DNG files through iZip to files, select From Files and then navigate to iZip files. If you downloaded them directly to your Camera Roll through Dropbox or download, select From Camera Roll.

Step 3: Save Settings as Presets

At this point you should have all of your DNG files imported into Lightroom Mobile. Locate the files and open one of them inside the app.

Now tap on the 3 dots icon at the top right of the screen and then tap on Create Preset.

Step 4: Using Lightroom Mobile Presets

To use your new presets just go back into your library and open any photo you’d like to edit.

Find the Presets icon in the menu at the bottom of the screen and tap on it. Make sure the Preset Group that’s selected is the one where you saved your new presets. If you saved them in the User Presets group, select that.

Now you can edit the photo by tapping on a preset from the list and then tapping on the checkmark. You can still continue to edit the photo and make adjustments if you like, after you’ve applied the preset.

And that’s it! Now you know how to install, save and use your Lightroom Mobile presets without desktop!

Let me know if you have any questions or issues by emailing me at marianna@flamingold.com :))