Web templates are groups of presets for a particular web engine. Any changes you make to a gallery in Lightroom’s Web module, you can save as a template for later use by using the Template Browser located in the left-hand control pane of the Web module. Several TTG templates include pre-made templates.

Lightroom web template files are easily identified by their file extension, .lrtemplate. These files are sometimes grouped into folders when downloaded.

Where and how these templates should be installed depends on several things. The first consideration is your Lightroom preference settings. In Lightroom’s Preferences, filed under the “Presets” tab, there is a check-box “Store presets with catalog”. When this check-box is disabled, Lightroom uses a centralized storage location, and all presets are accessible from any catalog. If this is the case for your configuration, then your templates should be installed in one of the following locations, dependent upon your operating system:

On Mac
Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Templates/

On Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Templates\

On Windows Vista & Windows 7
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Templates\

Web templates may be installed either as loose .lrtemplate files, or you may copy a group of templates into the Web Templates folder as a sub-folder.

If the “Store presets with catalog” check-box is enabled, then you must instead location your Lightroom catalog. With your catalog, you will find a folder, Lightroom Settings, and within it a Web Templates folder into which your .lrtemplate files should be installed, either as loose files or grouped within a folder of their own. Templates installed this way will only be available to a single catalog, and much be installed separately into each catalog you wish to use them with.

At this point, you will need to restart Lightroom for the templates to appear in the Template Browser.

For some users, this will be enough. Others may still find that the templates do not appear in the Template Browser. If that is the case, then you will need to Ctrl-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) within the Template Browser. This will cause a menu to appear; select “Import”, navigate to your web templates. Click the Import button, and your templates should now be available for use.

For more information on using the Web module’s Template Browser, see the Adobe Lightroom 2 Documentation.