Hey guys Ryan here at Signature Edits, and I'm going to show you how fast and
easy it is to edit an engagement or portrait shoot using our moody vibes
pack. Let's get into it. First off I have this engagement session
with Keiran and Courtney. It's an amazing session that my wife shot for us. We're
going to edit it together. I'm going to press command a to select all these
photos and then I'm going to go to the apply during import dialog and select
moody vibes and select my favorite preset from this pack which is
definitely moody vibes earthy I love this preset it is worth buying the
packages for this one preset I use it on absolutely everything
anyways let's keep going so I apply that preset because when Lightroom is
actually importing the photos it'll create previews with that preset applied
and just save a ton of time cycling between photos it really reduces the
loading time and makes things faster so I'm gonna hop into the develop module
and right away you can see that this looked weird
super super super weird why is that well it's because the white balance is not
correct right now Lightroom has automatically imported the
photo with the white-balance as shot we need to set it to auto the reason being
that this camera for whatever reason had the white balance set the same for every
single photo and so you can see it look good for some of them but for others it
is clearly out so we're just gonna use Lightroom Zotto function to fix that for
us so select auto select all these photos by pressing command a and then
hit sync we're going to synchronize all the settings across and Lightroom is
going to do its best job at guessing what the white balance should be for
each photo that's gonna save us a ton of time especially when we're saying it's
one-click presets well it's really only one click if a your white balance is
correct and B your exposure is correct so we're gonna go through here and
adjust the exposure and you can see once the white balance is right the photo
looks great if I wanted to I could add a little bit
of contrast and that's looking good now for those of you who are really
interested in the darkest and moodiest of the vibes we have a fade option as
well so here's movie vibes warm gold vintage and earthy you can see I love
earthy the most I could warm this up that's why warm is looking so cold and
then we have the warm fade gold fade vintage fade and earthy fade so if you
really want to go for that darkest and moodiest of the vibes you can hit earthy
fade and apply the to all of them we're just gonna go with
earthy today all right so now all I have to do to edit these photos from here
once the white balance is correct is just go through and adjust the exposure
I do this by pressing the plus and minus keys on my keyboard and it's super quick
and simple if you want to add a little contrast here absolutely free to
obviously each photos going to be a little bit different in terms of what
contrast it needs to look perfect because if you're shooting your camera
lens pointed towards the Sun like this is clearly a backlit photo you can see
that we've lost a lot of contrast around Chiron's hair and so we might have to
compensate for that a little bit in our photos so I'm just gonna go through just
as necessary and if I want to I can add some effects effects come with the moody
vibes preset pack we've got all of these adjustment brush presets that you can
use and one of my favorite is the brooding D haze darken and what this
does is applies a D haze kind of D contrast D clarify around whatever is
outside of this little circle here so we can use it to really place some focus on
this couple and darken everything else down stairs before and there's after
super dark super moody you get it okay so let's keep going just pressing plus
and minus suggesting my contrast here exposure to that is sometimes I mix up
words it's okay a little bit of contrast this one's
really cool I'm gonna do that moody D haze darken here for sure and if here is
your normal adjustment brush tool you can actually hit this little triangle
and that will give you one slider that allows you to adjust the intensity of
the effect so I want lots of effect we're just gonna do kind of a tilt shift
vibe so again here's before that effect and after really really cool
great and if we want to do we could actually even add some Sun flare here
using our Sun flare brush so we'll go here Sun flare subtle and just drag a
Sun into existence and obviously the Sun for whatever reason is on the outside of
this so I'm just gonna have to press the apostrophe key and that's gonna put it
inside the circle drag it up there and the reason I'm dragging it up here is
because the Sun is already hitting from this direction I couldn't put the
Sun over here it would just feel weird so I'm going to put it right there and
then dial it back so that I just blend it in here maybe add a little bit of
saturation just like that and you can see it really adds an extra little bit
of pop to the image so without it this is what it looks like let's get rid of
that and here's with just add some interest to your image and that's why we
include them with every preset pack so this guy we're going to definitely take
our dark and moody D haze darkened tool put that on there this one will just add
some exposure a little bit of contrast darken it down again if we wanted to
another way to do the Sun flare is using the gradient tool Sun flare subtle grab
it from here because that's where the Sun actually is just like that dial it
back a little bit apparently it's not subtle enough for our needs go like that
so we could either do something like this maybe add a little bit of contrast
and we're good so this one adobe has not quite gotten the white balance correct
so we'll just warm it up a little bit I just the exposure there you go now if
you wanted to you could work on this sky so let's see is there any detail in the
sky the easiest way to do that pull the exposure way down we can see
that this is blown out and white so I'm not going to bother trying to get those
colors back basically because they don't exist they were blown out in the
original photo okay let's keep going here this guy's looking pretty good
right out of the gate if you wanted to again we could add a little bit of Sun
flare why not here we go we'll die it'll it way back here so it's not quite so
intense warm it all the way up and so that's really up to you right if you
like the Sun flare that's cool if you don't like the Sun flare more power to
you this is looking good you some quick adjustments here so you
can see what it's like if I am NOT taking my time on every photo so this is
one I like just like that if you want you can apply a nice black and white
we've got a couple of options a faded option and a more high contrast option
that's the black and white here's the color and I think this would look really
really great not with a Sun flare but with our D haze darken tool yes very
cool and a little bit too intense for me so I'll just hit that minimize window
dial that back like that now if we want to go really crazy we could have the
darken and we could add a Sun flare up here we'll dial that way way back so
it's super subtle just like that so just you can see here's our photo without any
adjustment layers
kind of cool light okay going through you had some exposure there you can see
that we're getting a little bit of grain in our photos because it's dark out
right iso 640 now so if you want you could add our denoise preset so let's
take the earthy d noise and that's just going to apply a little bit of noise
reduction here in the photo now this guy is obviously really really underexposed
I have to take it up three stop so we've got some serious noise going on but if
we apply our D noise you can see it looks like a nice kind of filmic grain
that we've got going on rather than a bunch of digital noise in your camera
great and we'll do the same thing with this one very cool and we're done ok so
that is how to edit an engagement session or portrait session using the
moody vibes pack it is so quick so simple and so easy once you have your
white balance dialed in where it needs to be and your exposure it is pretty
much just drag and drop you are ready to go so if you have any questions contact
us at hello at signature edits dot-com I am looking forward to getting these
presets in your hand we spent a lot of time making sure that they work
perfectly so I can't wait for you to try them out
right talk soon
you