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- Hey guys, it's Denny here.
This year there's been huge improvements
to Lightroom presets,
but you can't experience it because your Lightroom presets
are not up to date.
And the main reason is because nobody knows how
to create these new presets.
There's a secret to them so hidden,
you probably didn't even know exists.
In this tutorial I'll show you how to find this hidden tool
and how to upgrade your old Lightroom presets
for Lightroom CC 2019.
First you need to know what's new with Lightroom presets.
Here's a Lightroom 2019 preset.
In new Develop Settings you'll see
it uses very few settings.
The biggest problem with Lightroom presets was
that they were destructive.
They overwrite your develop settings
and force you to use a preset first approach.
There were ways to create Lightroom presets
that were less destructive.
One of which is by combining settings
into an RGB tone curves
but most people don't know how.
This was a huge problem that needed solving,
so Adobe came up with profiles.
You can now create non-destructive presets
by compressing everything into a profile.
And it's easy to do as you'll see in this tutorial.
Another important feature is opacity control.
Most of the time,
presets are either too strong or light.
And for the longest time,
people have been asking for a way to control
the opacity of their presets.
Back in the days you had to install third party plugins.
But now it's built into profiles.
Now that you know the benefits,
let's learn how to upgrade your presets
to these non-destructive presets that uses profiles.
Remember earlier when I said that the tool is hidden?
Well, it's hidden because it's not in Lightroom,
in ET's folder shop.
And it's does get more hidden after this,
you'll see later.
So open Photoshop, and you can open any photo you like.
Next go to Filter, Camera Raw Filter.
Before we continue,
I'm going to fix the white balance and exposure.
You don't have to do this,
I'm just doing it as an example and I'll show you why later.
Switch your presets tab and select a preset
that you like to upgrade.
Here's a preset that I'm going to apply.
By the way, this a premium paid preset.
I've anonymized the preset name to protect
the creator's brand.
Once I apply this preset,
you'll notice that my photo got dark
and the white balance is off.
This is an example of a destructive preset.
Here's what's going on.
If we we go into settings,
you'll see it changes the white balances and exposure.
This means I have to correct the photo again,
which is a huge waste of time.
Adobe's solution to this is profiles.
To create a profile, go to your Presets tab.
Now if you click on a New Preset button,
it'll let you create a preset.
But how do you create a profile,
and where's the button to create a profile?
Here's the secret, hold the Alt key, option key on Macs,
and then click on a New Presets Button.
You'll notice that the window is different
and at the top it says New Profile.
This is the hidden tool, and I honestly don't know
why it's so hidden.
Anyways, give your profile a name.
If you want to put it in a different group,
you can click on a drop down menu and select New Group.
Next uncheck any settings that you do not want to move
in to a profile.
How we're gonna upgrade the preset is
by moving Develop Settings into a profile.
And when it gets moved into a profile,
you can not edit these settings later.
The benefit of this is that it's not going
to overwrite your existing settings.
So you do have to kind of choose wisely
which settings you want to use.
In general you should move every setting except
for one that you really wanna leave control for.
For example, I'm going to move everything
except for its splits toning.
That's because I want to split toning
to still be adjustable afterwards.
There's more settings below but
for the goal of this tutorial,
which is to upgrade our existing presets
to its new standard,
we don't need to use these setting.
I do use them for all of my new products.
And if you're an experienced preset creator,
these are settings that you definitely want to dive into,
do some more research, and learn how to use it.
Congratulations, you just created
your very first Lightroom profile.
Now let's learn how to find it.
Go to Basics tab, and the click
on the Profile Browser button.
Here you'll find the profile that you just created.
Click on it to apply it,
and hen click on the Close button to go back.
Now don't worry if your photo looks over processed.
It's temporary, you can ignore it for now.
But don't try to fix it because we're not done yet.
To finish upgrading our preset,
we're gonna save this as a new preset.
Go back to your Presets tab, click on a New Preset button,
but this time don't hold the Alt
or Option key while doing it.
We actually want to create a new preset and not a profile.
Give your preset a name and put it into a group if you like.
There's a lot of settings here,
but you should only check mark the ones that are used.
To do this, click on the Check None button
to uncheck everything.
Now check mark the Treatment and Profile,
and Process Version settings.
If there was any settings that you didn't include
in the profile,
for me it was the split toning, check mark those, too.
And then when you're done, click OK.
We're done, now it's time to test your preset.
First, reset all of your settings back to normal.
You can do this by holding the Alt or Option key.
And you'll notice that the Cancel button changes
into a Reset button.
Click on that to reset your settings.
Now before we continue,
I'm just going to fix the white balance and exposure,
just as an example.
You don't have to do this if you don't need to.
Now go back to your presets tab and find the preset
that you just created.
You'll notice that this time,
when I apply the preset,
the color correction I made is still here.
And looking in the Develop settings,
you can see that all these sliders are untouched.
Also, do you remember earlier when I unchecked
the split toning option and I put it back into a preset?
If we go to the split toning section,
you can see that the setting is still here.
You might be asking,
where's all these settings for this color grading come from?
Well I'm glad you asked.
Go to the basic session
and click on the Profile Browser button.
Here's the profile that is color grading your photo.
You can control the opacity using the amount slider
on the top.
This slider goes from zero to 200%.
Now anything over 100%
is not guaranteed to look good or work.
Depending on the color grading,
you might get weird colors or tonal shifts.
So if you're using anything over 100%,
really double check and make sure your photo looks fine.
You just learned how to create these new Lightroom presets,
but there's a lot more that they can do.
Behind the scenes, I'm developing
new color grading techniques and algorithms.
For example, my Traveller Lightroom Preset Pack
let's you use a strong color grading even on portraits.
It uses one of my algorithms that recover 50 to 70%
of the original skin tones.
If you wanna download new
and innovative Lightroom presets like this,
visit my website at Sparklestock.com.
For a flat rate, you can download everything on the website,
including any new products, for one year.
If you do sign up, thank you so much for your support.
I really appreciate it.
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Now it's kind of funny how everyone who asks me asks
for opacity control for the longest time ever.
And now that it's out,
you can't use it because 99% of the presets
are not made to this year's standards.
That means that they do not use profiles,
and because of that there's no opacity control.
Adobe has made it so complicated because now you
have to use Photoshop,
and the button is hidden.
I mean, it's so hidden that it's kind of like an Easter egg.
I really wish that Adobe made everything simpler,
and I think if they made everything simpler,
a lot more precept readers would adapt
to this new standard, but hopefully this changes soon.
Anyways I hope you guys have a great day,
let me know what you think in the comments below,
and I'll see you in the next video.