How do I remove or hide default lightroom presets?

Not possible. Just collapse the folder and ignore it.

What Jim said. I mean, there is a way to hack the program to get rid of them, but then they come back next update - not worth it in my opinion.

Considering that with the latest Lightroom update (7.3) there are now FOURTEEN folders of built-in presets, this has become an issue for me. It's a colossal waste of screen real estate and just like the OP, I never use any of these presets anyway.

I do have my own presets that I do use all the time so I don't want to collapse or entirely hide the presets section altogether.

Sorry for digging out this old thread - it came up as the first result when I did a search, so... :-)

As a workaround, I named my folder of presets with "z_" at the front so that the folder is at the bottom of the list, right next to the edit history.

That's a good idea, thanks.

Would you happen to know if there's a feature request for this? After researching myself a bit it seems that these presets are hard-coded into the Develop module - that's just mind-boggling...

It is mind-boggling.

You could add your constructive opinion and vote to this six-year-old feature request: Lightroom: Ability to delete the default develop presets | Photoshop Family Customer Community

My presets panel now ONLY contains MY presets and NONE of the adobe ones.   See here how to do it. The preset system seems to have changed in Lr 7.3 and most can be officially hidden and the classic ones deleted.

I FOUND IT and they can be removed! Presets and Profiles alike (personally, I don't have ANY use for the modern/vintage/artistic and b&w profiles, nor will I ever). Restarting Lightroom does NOT seem to restore them (phew) so make sure to make a BACKUP of the files before you delete anything, just in case.

On Windows, the files are in TWO locations, one for Lightroom (the presets) and one for ACR (the profiles). I zapped the stuff from both locations and they're GONE! Yay!

These are the two locations for Windows:

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic CC\Resources\Settings\

c:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings\Adobe\

If someone could provide the locations for Macs we're done and this can be marked as answered. :-)

With the next update they will likely get reinstalled.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bob+Somrak  wrote

 

My presets panel now ONLY contains MY presets and NONE of the adobe ones.   See here how to do it. The preset system seems to have changed in Lr 7.3 and most can be officially hidden and the classic ones deleted.

I forgot the link.   Re: Converting Presets to XMP W/ LR C CC V7.3.  

Be sure to read through the whole thread

What happens with users of Lightroom that do not use the option to write to .xmp files?

DdeGannes  wrote

 

With the next update they will likely get reinstalled.

If you use the ACR hide method showen by Ian Lyons in the link in my post #10 tne NEW presets should not get reinstalled. The Classic profiles will probably have to be deleted after every update. Adobe needs to allow deletion or hide of these presets within Lightroom. They take up WAY too much  valuable space in the left panel And as far as I am concerned they are not very useful. 

I didn't see that at first, thank you Bob.

Adobe should have a delete option instead of just hide but this will work ok. Hopefully they will include the hide option in Lr 7.4 to keep Lr and ACR in sync.  It’s nice to have a CLEAN presets panel after all these years.

We're not for Mac, because I've deleted the internal versions of the Adobe presets from 2 locations within the Lightroom program. I suspect I need to find them in CameraRaw as well... now to try that.

Now.. I have deleted the internal version inside the Lightroom package file.. but the external ones are located at

Machintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings/Adobe/Presets

NOTE: this is ROOT folder of the start disk, not the user folder.

Delete the Presets folder. Leave the Profiles.

Sean

You can HIDE all of them except for the CLASSIC ones using ACR.   On the Mac yoou then only have to delete the Classic ones from the location I listed in the linked thread.  Then all thr preinstalled presets are gone.

My location deletes them all Bob. I'm also not afraid to delve inside package files.

Thought I would put this all in one thread for clarity

1) HIDE all the built in presets except of CLASSIC. (This is a clip from Ian Lyons)

2) You can delete the CLASSIC presets from one place.  (at least on the Mac)

On a Mac the CLASSIC XMP presets you need to delete are in /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic CC/Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.app/Contents/Resources/Settings/Adobe/Presets/........

3)After doing the above two things your built in presets are gone from view!!!!.  I don't know why the hide is in ACR but not in Lightroom but maybe it will show up in 7.4.

I'm not afraid to delete them either but they will probably come back in the next update using DELETE.  Hopefully a future HIDE in Lightroom will take care of the problem with the CLASSIC presets as ACR can not SEE the CLASSIC profiles to HIDE for some reason. probably because the Classic one are only in the package.  The built in presets have gotten totally out of control with over a dozen folders taking up valuable preset panel space.

I could write a script to remove them. It’s not an issue. The quantity of them isn’t an issue either. It’s that they're stuck at the top of the panel.