Dear User,

Thank you for purchasing our Lightroom Brushes! In order to improve your experience and
make installation a little easier, we have put together easy to follow installation instructions
for our products.

Be sure to follow the procedure for your specific operating system

Windows Users

1. Locate the folder in which your brushes have been downloaded to (for users of
Windows Vista and newer, it commonly downloads to-
C:\Users\<Username>\Downloads)

2. Next, extract the file containing your downloaded Lightroom Brushes. (we
recommend you to use File Extractors such as Winrar, even though Windows 10
users are able to extract zip files without losing very much data)

3. Open the extracted folder and be sure to copy all files that are labeled with the
extension *.lrtemplate

4. *Please make sure that Adobe Lightroom is closed for this step.* Open the folder
named Local Adjustment Presets in the following location:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

5. Double click the Local Adjustment Presets folder and paste your brushes inside.
 6. Finally, restart Adobe Lightroom, then go into the Adjustment Brush tool section,
activating the brushes. Next, click where it says Effect: Custom. This will allow the
option to load new brushes; Simply, choose which brush you want to use for your
particular job.

Mac OSX Users

1. First, you will need to locate the folder where your files have been downloaded into
finder.
2. Then, extract the downloaded file containing your new Lightroom Brushes. (it is
recommended to use File Extractors such as Winrar)
3. Open the extracted folder and copy all of the files that are labeled with the
extension *.lrtemplate .
4. Next, go into the Preference Menu in Lightroom and locate the option - Show
Lightroom Presets Folder
5. First double click on the Lightroom folder, then on the Local Adjustment Presets
folder to paste your brushes inside.
6. Finally, restart Adobe Lightroom and go into the Adjustment Brush Tool section.
Once you have activated it, click on Effect: Custom. This will allow you the option
load new brushes; choose which brush you want to use for your particular job.

Common issues when installing Lightroom Brushes

Oftentimes when new Brushes dont work or if you are unable to locate them inside
Lightrooms UI, it is possible that a step was missed during the installation process. Lets
look at a few of the more common issues found during the installation process.

1. Not extracting the brushes: Often, a new user may just download the brushes
and move them into Lightrooms folder structure, instead of actually extracting the
appropriate files; especially when the file is packed as .rar, but the user doesnt
have the proper file extractor which supports .rar files, making the files blend in as
common RAW image.

2. Encrypted files: Maybe youre unable to use the brushes because they are
encrypted, therefore wont have access to them. To rectify this issue, all you will
need to do is right-click on your brush file, then select Properties. Once in
Properties, go to Advanced and uncheck the last box encrypting content for data
protection. Now you will be able to access your brushes.

3. Brushes are outdated and no longer apply to new Lightroom tools: Keep in
mind that in Lightroom versions 4 and newer, Adobe made many updates and
changes in regards to most of the tools. For example, Fill Light is no longer a slider
and older Brushes which were valid with LR 2-3 are incompatible with Lightroom
versions 5-6.
 4. Wrong type of Preset: This error occurs when your brush files are installed in the
Develop Folder (which belongs to Presets), instead of going into the appropriate
Local Adjustments Presets folder. Simply move your Brush files to the proper folder
and restart Lightroom, which will quickly rectify the issue.

*IMPORTANT* Make sure you backup your Brush Library!

As most are certainly aware, viruses never ask for an invitation into, and most often they
attack at seemingly the most inconvenient times. It is highly recommended that you work
with a different partition of your hard drive for data, as Lightrooms Brush Library is
contained in the root folder of the Lightroom installation. If the event should occur that your
PC is infected by a virus, not allowing the operating system to boot, there is a good chance
that you may lose your complete Brush library.

It is extremely important to keep a backup of your preset library on an external memory

drive; either a hard drive or even a good pendrive, which one is up to you. The library files
wont take up an extremely large amount of space.

Enjoy your new product and keep editing! For further technical questions/answers and
tutorials please refer to our Facebook site:

www.sleeklens.com