Most people here can ignore this post, as I’m guessing you are completely familiar with what I’m discovering, but I feel like writing about it anyway…
It took two weeks, learning lots of other stuff I needed, including how to get to a $HOME directory:
- In Finder on my MacBook Pro, go to the house icon with my name after it (my home folder?)
- Go to Library
- Go to DxO PhotoLab v6
- Go to Presets
- Create a new folder “rex_block_presets”
- Copy his preset into that folder
Next step was trying to figure out how to access his preset. At the top right of my PhotoLab window, there is “Presets”. I clicked on it, closed all the open presets, and at the bottom found an image of my photo, open with the preset, with Engraved-2 under it. Selected that, and voila, it worked!!! Time to celebrate.
By documenting all this, I’ll be able to send the above to one of my friends who would like to try it, but is beginner at PhotoLab, and finds it more confusing than me, if that is possible. I’ll also be able to recall how to do this a month or year from now.
For those of you who are encouraging me to try new things, I feel like I’m walking out onto a frozen lake, and at any minute I might fall through the ice and drown. Thanks to all the information posted in this forum, and especially thanks to @RexBlock I can do this. It’s magic. Maybe if I read the text inside this preset, I might get a clue as to how it works, but I doubt it. To be honest, I’m amazed, and happy, I got this far.
