Hey guys it's Allison I hope you're having a super happy day so far I am so
excited to be finally filming this video is by far my most requested video ever
and that is how I edit my Instagram photographs so I did film one of these a
few months back actually it was probably about a year ago um things have
certainly changed a whole bunch in one powerful tool that I started using since
the past video is Lightroom I'm sure you have heard of Lightroom before it is a
part of the Adobe Creative Cloud and it is a very powerful editing software so
with Lightroom you can really addressed all the colors and manipulate so many
settings I didn't even know we're possible I like to use Lightroom opposed
to Photoshop just because Lightroom you can really play with the colors more
with Photoshop is more tweaking the actual subjects of the photo so I think
Lightroom is just a little more user friendly for editing but I am also so
excited to say that through my work in Lightroom I have created my own presets
and they are on sale now so with these presets you can download them from my
website once you purchase them and all you have to do is just import them into
your Lightroom so you must pay for the Lightroom app which I know is pretty
expensive but there are a few different options that your student and whatnot so
that's awesome so once you have lightroom you import
the presets into lightroom and then it's seriously a click of a button and the
filter is automatically applied and then you can adjust the filter to
appropriately fit your lighting situation and colors and your photograph
so i'm so excited to be selling these Lightroom presets because they have
definitely made made my life easy here when it comes to editing my photographs
and people are always asking me how I edit but it's so hard to like explain
everything specifically so I feel like this is such an easy way for people to
download them and then be able to use them for themselves so if you're
interested in that you can download my presets on my website which
is in my description you'll see all the information there let me know if you
have any questions whatsoever I will be sure to answer them so I'm going to show
you in this video how to use my prep presets and then what other editing
techniques I use in addition to my presets because it isn't a one click
edit it's just never gonna be the case sometimes you can put on the preset and
it looks great but you still want to add some pizzazz or add some more details
which is what I do every single time pretty much so let's get into this video
and I'll give you all my editing secrets okay once you're on my website you just
click come in and then you will go to the top or drop down menu if you're on
mobile and click on shop presets and here you will see my preset pack and you
can click on this to kind of read more about it and make sure it is the right
fit for you so if you decide yes I totally want to invest in these they are
currently 34 and 95 and you can add them to your cart so once they're in your
cart you can just click on this and check out and then you will just have to
enter in any information it asks for and then at the end it will say order
confirmed and you will also see your download link right here so you'll just
click on that and then it'll pop on over to your downloads and then you just
click on this folder and within the folder you will see the four presets
that you get so in to install these on your Lightroom you just click on install
and then I actually already have it installed so I'm just gonna hit cancel
but of course you would hit install and then it would show up right under
develop make sure you're in the developed tab up at the very top and
then scroll all the way down to your user presets and then you'll see
bellisimo the first one you downloaded right there and then you'll just have to
go back to your downloads to individually download
the three other ones so first I just want to take you through how I edit with
my presets so whenever I have a photograph I just like to kind of look
at all the presets I never really have a preset in mind before I have the
photograph in Lightroom so I kind of just scroll over these to see which one
looks the best in the little preview so bellissimo looks really nice I think I
will most likely end up going with that one but Lightspeed looks pretty cool too
especially if you're more into their warm tones I would probably take down
the orange a little bit but that one looks pretty awesome as well and then we
have mermaid touch which is another one of my presets and this one is super
clean and it really brings out any turquoise you may have and if you have a
blue sky or something it'll make it much more turquoise II so that's pretty
awesome and then we have pinky-winky which was my first preset and the name
is so cheesy I know but I just really like this one because it's very it's
more cool toned but the pink is very very prominent and it adds such a pink
flare to any photograph you may have so for this photo I am definitely gonna go
with bellissimo and once I have the preset on my photograph I just kind of
alter it a little bit sometimes it barely needs to be altered at all but
sometimes it really needs to be altered just depending on the light and nature
of the photograph so I think it's just a little overexposed so I'm just going to
bring that down a smidge but I still like it super bright and pretty and then
I am going to take the highlights down just so that we can see all the details
in this photograph and then let's see what else I'm gonna do I'm going to add
luminance a little bit then I'm gonna go up to these colors and maybe bring up
the luminance for the pink some more and then maybe
orange for my hair oh gosh see we do not want to do that sometimes you will just
play around with it and see what works and what doesn't
yeah this is usually my process I just go through and kind of see what I want
to change what I want to keep and do that until I am pleased with it but
thankfully this preset helps me it so much and I barely have to do anything to
the photograph at all I'll take you back to the original this is what I
originally looked like and then this is it with the preset so as you can tell
it's a super big difference and it looks very lovely if I say so myself okay now
I want to take you through another photograph that isn't a raw photograph
this was still taken with a DSLR camera but it is not raw because I know there
might be some confusion about Oh what if I don't shoot in RAW is there gonna be a
big difference and no it definitely is preferred if you do shoot in RAW just
because like for instance bellissimo it really takes for raw photographs that
can really alter it a whole lot more but for JPEGs it just since JPEGs are
already color corrected a bit it just has less less freedom to work with so in
this photograph bellissimo was just way too exposed but all I had to do was just
alter that just bring down the exposure a little bit easy peasy and you can also
mess with the white balance just alter the temperature and tint but if we go
over to Lightspeed that one still is a little overexposed but it still looks
really nice if you ask me I love the way it looks and it's super warm so if
you're going for more of that feel lightspeed is the perfect preset for you
and then if we go over to mermaid touch this one looks perfect like I wouldn't
even have to touch it or alter it too much more I just love the way this looks
and then pinky-winky this looks so lovely so girly with the pink touches
and just like that you're done editing one other trick that I do quite often if
I have some white space and I want to make it even pop
more I go to my brush tool over here in Lightroom and I put the exposure on my
brush up to about one something it really just depends and then you can
just paint over some whiteness and make it super super bright so that's a little
too bright for my fur coat but if you have something like a white
wall that you want to make super white and just super clean you can use the
brush tool over all the way to the right over here okay so once I know I'm ready
to post it I will just go to my library and export it and then I will send it
over to my iPhone so my favorite apps to use on my phone are Snapseed and this go
so first let's bring in this photographed into Snapseed and my
favorite tools on Snapseed are the brush tools so with the brush tool I love to
use the exposure one and with this one you can actually kind of mock the
lightroom brush and you can whiten any area you'd like to so usually I really
wouldn't whiten the sky but since that's kind of like the biggest whitespace and
this in particular photograph I just wanted to kind of demonstrate that for
you guys this is such an awesome tool if you want to make things super crisp and
bright I also love the satchel reach the saturation tool because that way I can
really just make things pop even more if you've watched my old how I edit video
you know my key is ESS exposed sharpen and saturate that is just my key and
golden rule to editing photographs so now let's go into visco and we'll pop in
that photograph real quick
so once I'm in disco I just play around a little more maybe sharpen a little bit
at make it even more crisp or I'll expose it but since this one is already
so edited thanks to Lightroom and Snapseed you really don't have to do a
whole lot to it but of course that all depends on each individual agraphia
really just use your judgement and find your own editing style again if you
don't feel like Lightroom is a necessity please don't be like you need to buy it
visco is such a powerful free tool and Snapseed as well and you can really just
make magically beautiful photographs with this and that's it that is a full
video of how I edit every single Instagram photograph I take I know it is
super extra to edit this much and like go through so many different steps but
editing photographs is one of my favorite things to do it is basically a
hobby for me I just absolutely love to do it I love to be in Lightroom I love
to post on Instagram so it's just such a fun thing for me please don't stress
yourself out about it if it's not really your thing don't spend too much time on
it I'm sure you have other skills and priorities in life so go for that but I
really hope these tools helped you and I hope you enjoy my presets and I hope you
have a beautiful day thanks for watching guys I