Recently, I have had the need to re-use camera RAW settings and take them from one image to another, via Camera RAW.
Take this set of adjustments that I have made to an image, which I took in India a couple of years ago
The processing used allows me to create a consist look / feel and tone to any image. I’m always trying to find a way to link images together to tell the wider story.
The settings in Camera RAW cross almost every tab, from shadow/highlight recovery, split tone etc, and re-entering this each time is time consuming and can create errors in the processing.
Within ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) there is an option to save the current settings
Once “save setting” has been selected the following screen will be displayed
Here individual elements can be selected and turned on/off. Once the required items have been selected, clicking Save will save the .XMP file to the local disk (Personally, I’ll save this to my Creative Cloud folder so I can use it anywhere that I am editing).
When editing the next image that will use these settings, I’ll just need to add the Camera RAW filter (at which ever point in your process from the Filter menu), then load the XMP saved file into ACR and the settings will be adjusted as appropriate.