- Talking about my favorite thing today, presets,
while I eat my favorite thing, pizza.
Pizza and presets. Oh! (growls)
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What's up everybody? Peter McKinnon here.
Welcome back to another video, and today is the day
everyone has been emailing me about.
The Presets, version two. They are now available.
They are linked below. I want to go through the entire pack,
and teach you guys how to edit banger photos,
in Lightroom, with one click, and small adjustments,
using presets, how to install them.
I should also just mention thank you so much to everyone
that supported me, and picked up these products.
I really appreciate it. It means a lot
to both me and my family, so thank you very much.
I work very hard on these. I haven't put out a preset pack
since last year, it was last year in the summer.
And presets aren't something that I just want to roll out
over and over and over and over and over again because
the presets that I put out are my style.
So when you purchase this new pack,
if you've been to my Instagram account in the past,
I would say like, half year, all of the edits that you see
on my Instagram account, like right here,
like you guys saw last time, (sucking sound)
all of those are using these new presets.
Now on top of just color adjustments,
which presets are typically shifting colors
and all that stuff to give you a certain aesthetic,
in this new one I've also done a whole bunch
of little adjustments that'll help
your photos just get tweaked fast,
but don't actually mess with the color.
So stuff like shadow recovery, and highlight bumps,
and sharpen, and contrast, and all that stuff.
In this video I'm gonna show you
how to use presets with Lightroom,
the photos that presets are gonna work best with,
and basically get you up and running in no time.
It's very important that you know one thing about presets,
and the outcome of a preset applied to any photo
is going to heavily depend on the quality
of the photo you took before you applied the preset.
If you have a photo that was poorly exposed in-camera,
it's not even, the shadows are way too heavy,
and it's just not a very good photo.
So then if you take a very well exposed,
an even exposed photo in-camera,
when you bring that into Lightroom,
and you run a preset on it, almost every preset
that you run on it will look good,
because that photo was taken properly
at the beginning, the source.
So if you get it wrong right at the start,
it's not going to look good through the end
of the preset editing process.
Sometimes you can run a preset on a kind of, meh, photo,
and you can do a lot of tweaking
to that preset after the fact,
and you can readjust shadows, and readjust all these things,
and you can kind of save it or kind of get it to the point
where you're like, "Alright, that looks better."
And the goal with presets is, essentially,
like a one-click edit.
Throw a photo into light room,
choose which one you like the best,
you maybe make a couple of adjustments from there,
you crop, export, peace out, have a great day.
I wanted to start that off by basically saying
the end result is going to heavily depend
on how good you are as a photographer
and the photos that you take,
before you even get to editing in Lightroom.
(sucking sound) Let's just get straight into this.
Once you've got them, it will look like this.
You will have a folder called, "P McKinnon Fall 2018,"
and inside this folder you will see .xmp files.
Here's some very important information
with regards to any presets from this point on:
Lightroom updated to 7.5, that is the latest version.
Make sure you are updated, because they've moved
all of the preset files to a new file type.
They used to be called .lrtemplate,
and those were the preset file types.
Now, Adobe has made those .lrtemplate files (whoosh).
They've made them into .xmp files.
And the reason they've done that is because
now these presets files, these .xmp files, you can use them
both in Lightroom, Photoshop, and Cam-Er-Ah.
Before, the .lrtemplate files you could only use
those presets in Lightroom, but now (whoosh)
they've opened it up to the rest of their
photo-editing apps, which is pretty cool,
and then when you update, it automatically changes
all those files over for you.
So if you were kind of go back into the folder and find
all those old presets, they would be .xmp files now.
So the files you're getting from me today are .xmps.
The only caveat, the difference is
they're going into a different folder now.
So if you have that updated version of Lighroom,
which is 7.5, you've just downloaded these files,
this is where you're going to install these presets,
and this is how you get to that folder. Fire up Lightroom.
You're gonna go to the top, right at the top left
corner here, click Lightroom, click about
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, make sure that's the 7.5 release.
Make sure you're right there, you're on the right track,
if it's not, update.
Come back up to Lightroom, go over to preferences,
from preferences, under the presets tab,
you're gonna have, "Show Lightroom Develop Presets"
"Show All Other Lightroom Presets."
Those are two buttons you can click.
Now, I've seen where sometimes people only have one button,
it doesn't really make a difference,
you can still get to the same folder,
You're gonna click, "Show Lightroom Develop Presets,"
that's gonna open this Settings folder,
you'll notice it's already highlighted.
On top near the root folder is Camerah,
so when you double click on Settings, in this folder,
this is where you're gonna actually drop
my new preset folder.
So you'd come over here to your desktop,
where all your presets are, and you would drop them
right in here, but, just in case,
presets, let's click the other one,
"Show All Other Lightroom Presets."
This opens up where you used to put them in.
Lightroom's highlighted, you double click Lightroom,
you click on develop presets, and then all your folders
would be in there, nice and tasty crispy,
but that is for the .lrtemplate files,
so we're not gonna be putting them in there,
we're gonna put them in the other one.
Grab my new P. M. Fall Pack 2018,
drag that right in there, Bob's your uncle. Ready to go.
So what you're gonna want to do now,
close out of this. Close out of this.
Close out of Lightroom. You're gonna shut it down.
You're gonna restart it, when you restart it, (snap) mmm,
those Lightroom presets should be installed.
Let's fire Lightroom back up, (rubs hands together).
Okay, so Lightroom starts up, you've got your photos here,
over on the left side of the screen you can see Presets,
you drop that down, and we should have,
oop! P.M. Fall Pack 2018, we expand that,
you can see this entire drawer
of all of these tasty delicious presets,
and I know you're probably already clicking them,
you've skipped ahead, and let's go through these
one by one, starting with my adjustment presets.
So let's pick a photo that has, you know,
a little bit of a exposure, or some weird stuff going on.
Let's take a look at this one here of me in the mountains.
Now it is a beautifully exposed shot,
you can actually see the mountains in the background,
it was very foggy, you can still see the detail
on my jacket, I am a little dark,
so you can start by checking out these shadow adjustments.
So you can see right away, if you just hit
Soft Shadow Adjustment, you hover over it,
it's gonna bring up those shadows.
There are my like, these are my toolkits.
These are the things I like to run first, or after.
Sometimes this is all I do, I just hit a few of these,
and then I just tweak some stuff on the right panel,
and I don't even use the color presets,
but that's what I put these here for,
before you do anything else.
Aside shadows, you got a highlight bump,
you got a highlight recovery, you've got three different
versions of film grain: 35 ml, and medium format film grain.
You have a sharpen and refine, if you kind of want to
blow out those edges, to make everything a little more
tasty and crispy, if you will.
Moving on to editing a photo with the color presets,
that's what I have right below the adjustment presets.
This photo is exposed great, this is a perfect example of
almost every preset looking awesome.
So if we just run through them,
this one is called, "Dawn," I really really like this one.
But you can see it's lifting the shadows, that looks great,
we can see way more of the snowflakes that were falling,
amazing. Now we come down to Dusk, which is gonna be
a lot of the opposite, everything's really really muted,
and earthy, I love this preset because it looks great
with architecture and cities, it looks great with portraits.
It's kind of like a great all-arounder.
Moving back down to Elemental,
little more earth tones on this, little bit brighter,
as you can see, that looks great.
Almost all of these look amazing.
Ember is a little more of like a, fiery kind of orange
with soft highlights, pastel palette if you will.
This looks great for fall, it looks great on landscapes,
this one's my favorite, this one,
I mean they're all my favorites,
that's why I kind of narrowed it down to these specific ones
that you're seeing in this pack.
Moving on to Genesis Black and White,
feels like a fine art photograph, like an old, old
black and white that maybe you find in your grandfather's
shoebox, rifling through the attic.
We have the Louise preset, named after Lake Louise,
I love this one, it's gotta bit of that teal flavor to it,
it's a little bit brighter. This looks great with portraits,
Louise and Moraine are kind of the same.
Moraine is a little bit more dark, and you'll see where
this really shines with portraits.
It's kind of cool that all of the presets look great
on one photo that's beautifully exposed.
North is like Moraine, but a little bit brighter,
with more contrast, kind of has that
BAMF mountain, glacier, lake vibe to it.
You have Ohara, which is named after Lake Ohara.
It's gonna kind of pop those oranges a little bit more,
so if you are shooting anything with color,
specifically yellow and orange,
it's really gonna make those things shine,
so kind of like this photo right here, (boop)
that I took of this cabin at Emerald Lake.
This is the before, that's the after,
and that's using Ohara.
Overload is for the photos that are really underexposed,
and you just need to overload that shot fast,
you're gonna select this preset it's gonna pop
those shadows right up, it's gonna reduce the noise,
with heavy luminance, kind of smoothing out those edges.
It's a very few and far between preset.
I don't use this one, and I'll be honest,
I don't use it often, but there are times
where I've been shooting at night,
and the Overload preset has saved an image,
and made it into just an absolutely incredible shot.
Alright, Red October. As the name would suggest,
great for fall photos, browns, yellows, deep greens, reds,
it's really gonna kind of (punching noise) punch those out.
Right here, on this one, it's making it a little bit
too dark because we don't really have fall colors,
but if we were to go over to, you know, a fall shot
like this, where I'm holding a camera,
when you click on Red October, you can see
it really makes those fall colors pop, love that.
Let's go back to this shot here.
Six side. This is like my urban, city, architectural,
concrete preset, so if you are a street photographer,
you're an urban photographer, you find yourself
in these urban environments, and it's wet,
and it's been raining, whatever,
anything in the city that looks kind of concrete,
Six Side is a great preset for that,
as well as Skyfall, the one right below it.
If you check that one out, it's kind of like a little
more of a muted version of Six Side.
So those two, if I'm ever shooting in a city,
or anything is urban and built up,
Six Side and Skyfall are the ones
that I'm going to go to first.
Moving on to the end, you've got White Out,
obviously I love to shoot snow conditions,
so when I'm in mountains, and we're driving around,
White Out is a fresh option for me,
because it really just makes it look
like a snowy Winter Wonderland.
It just whites everything out. Love that one.
And we're finding it off with Wolfswood,
which is one of my favorites,
told you I was gonna say that over and over,
if you're shooting anything that's green,
if you're in a forest, I don't know where else,
but heavy green tones in a photo,
Wolfswood is just gonna (low punching sound),
is just gonna destroy it in the best way possible.
We're hanging out in Ireland, you can see
this photo right here, we just hover over Wolfswood,
look how it changes those greens.
That's without it, that's with it.
Really, really nice tonality, if you will, on those greens.
It's a very moody preset. I mean, you can go over
to this photo here, which is total fall,
Wolfswood on that, again, it looks great,
it just gives such a moody vibe to it.
And lately I've been trying to edit with more,
kind of, mood in my tones so that
when you look at the photos you just feel something.
And you're like, "Wow, that just feels warm and inviting,
and I just wanna be in that forest with that camera." Mm.
That's what I've been trying to kind of search for,
and that's what I've tried to deliver in this preset pack.
That is the adjustment presets and the color presets.
You can see again, a very nicely,
evenly exposed photo is going to edit very well.
We're going to zoom in on Matty's face here.
There's a little bit of loss of highlight on his face,
so we could come over to one of the highlight recovery,
that's gonna bring it right down,
you can see how that, woop, play with the shadows
if you wanted, but for me, it looks pretty good
straight out of the camera.
Wolfswood on this photo, very dramatic, very moody.
I think maybe Louise would look great on this.
Moraine would look great on this.
I'm a big fan. The best part of a new preset pack
is just grabbing like five to ten
of your favorite shots, running down that side bar
and just seeing which ones speak to you the most.
Here's another example of a photo that's exposed well.
The sky is now blown out, the water is not blown out,
I am even, so when you run down these presets,
it's the same thing, Dawn, Dusk, Elemental,
that one looks incredible, I love that one a lot.
If you use Louise on Lake Louise, it's a little more white.
You've got Moraine, you've got Ohara,
like they all kind of have--
Wolfswood down at the bottom--
they all have a very specific, you know, characteristic
to them, and you'll pick your favorites just like I have.
Here's an example of a photo that kind of sits in between
like a very well exposed shot,
and kind of like a poorly exposed shot.
So if you look at this forest here,
it's exposed well, but there are some dark parts
in this area of the photo, this area of the photo,
that sky up there could be a little blown out,
so when you do apply presets to this,
they're probably gonna come out a little bit darker,
which means you might have to come over
to the adjustments tab and start
kind of tweaking things a little bit.
If I apply Red October, you can see it just looks kind of
mushy, and it just kind of crushes everything
a little bit too much, that's because my exposure
in this forest was not as good
as the forest that I did with Matty.
So I'd probably come over here to the adjustments tab,
try to lift up those shadows a little bit,
see where the exposure looks a little bit better,
bring down those highlights, lift the whites,
lift the blacks almost all the way up to the top there,
make sure clarity isn't making those trees too sharp,
bring those highlights down a little bit,
and you can see, right off the bat, that already
looks a lot better with just a few minor tweaks.
So, that is what I wanted to really convey
when it comes to presets is just because you click it once,
doesn't mean its gonna be the best, most magical
photo you've ever seen in your life.
That is the hope. Sometimes, depending on how it was shot,
it needs a little love, it needs a little TLC
on the right side there. Don't forget that.
Here's an example of just like a one click preset
that just like, it just works.
So like, I know this photo looks great with Moraine.
I click on that, (foot stomp) I'm happy. I'm good to go.
I might like bring down the exposure slightly,
but, other than that, before and after,
with one click of a preset, that would go on my grid today.
In fact, I think I might do that.
If you're doing something like Red October
on this Lake Louise shot, it looks great,
it might be like a little bit too much blue,
you can come down to the HSL tab over here,
select that, and you can kind of
lessen the saturation of that blue.
If you wanna tweak these, if you like the colors
but you might think to yourself,
"Uuuuhhhh, (high pitched mumbling) just a little bit down,
just a mmmmm, just a slight boop boop boop boop boop,"
slight drag down, that's how you're gonna do that, HSL tabs.
But, I have tried to develop these so they work
almost every single time with one click for you,
should you, you know, take a beautiful photograph,
which I'm sure you are going to tag me in those. Tag me!
So that is kind of a quick overlook of the presets,
how to install them, how to use them,
and get them ready to go in your
updated Lightroom, version 7.5,
using those new .xmps, super pumped on that.
That is everything I can offer you on presets
and the new Fall 2018 Pack. I really hope you enjoy it.
If you wanna know what I'm talking about,
or you wanna purchase it, you want a link right to it,
there's a link at the very top of the description,
if you just scroll down a little bit.
Also, on my banner there's always the little link
to the shop to download my digital product.
So thank you so much to everyone that supported me,
and, you know, is interested enough in the stuff
that I'm making, the stuff that I'm teaching and I'm doing,
to go and you know, financially support this cause.
So thank you so much for that,
I really, really appreciate it,
and I hope you enjoy these.
So if you're gonna start editing these photos,
and posting them on Instagram,
and all the social platforms that you like to use,
so if you do support me and pick up these presets,
please tag me so we can continue the conversation
and I can actually, you know, be a fan of your work,
I would love that. You do me that solid, it's appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to watch this video,
it was a long one, that is today's video,
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Let's do the Go Pro video next week, cause that thing is--
Yes. Yes. Have fun with presets. (whooshing sound)
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You know the lantern fell, and it cracked,
and the oil went all over the ground,
and then it caught fire, and that's what the Ember preset--
I can just get so carried away so fast.
It's just this, its (flames sound) (explosion sound)
it's like fireworks. (firework sounds)
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