have you ever wanted to take a photo like this and with one click of a mouse
turn it into a photo like this well unfortunately that's not really how it
works but by using Lightroom presets to edit your photos you can make it feel a
lot like one-click magic what is up people Dunna here if you're new to the
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talking about using Lightroom presets to edit your photos I've been getting
bombarded lately with people asking me how I edit my photos for Instagram and
the photos that I show you guys in my videos and while I do plan on making
more videos about Lightroom and photography and that kind of stuff to
show you guys my process I thought in the meantime why don't I just make my
presets available to you guys so that you can get my looks on your photos with
just one click so before I get too far into teaching you guys how to use
presets and what my process is with presets I'm happy to announce the dunna
2018 lightroom preset pack I revamped my website just to make this happen the
pack comes with 12 presets that i fine-tuned over my time as a
photographer I tried to make them kind of varying so they're all over the place
they can be used in totally different situations and I think you guys are
gonna really like them and as a little bonus to say thank you to everyone who
follows me and subscribes to me from this point until the end of July 2018
you can get the whole preset pack all twelve of them for $5 if you type in the
code cheap presets at checkout thank you so much in advance for supporting and
make sure to go cop them before the end of July so that you get the cheap
presets all the info for that is gonna be in the description again so you can
watch this video and you can go catch that later now for the thing that we all
came here for let's figure out how to use some presets now first and foremost
there are some people out there who think that using presets on your photos
is cheating and I completely disagree with them I think it's a really great
building block and I'm gonna tell you four reasons why I think using presets
can help you up your photography game the first
and the most obvious one is speed let's say you're shooting a wedding you've got
thousands and thousands of photos to edit if you can find a preset that works
even like as a starting place that's gonna speed up your entire workflow so
much we're talking about hours and hours of work that you're saving the second
reason is consistency it's a huge thing on Instagram that you want to have like
a consistent look using a preset as a great way to make that happen you can go
in and tweak individual settings on some photos but by using a preset you can get
kind of an overall similar look between all the photos the third reason I think
using presets are good is for inspiration if you pull up a photo and
you're just kind of not sure what to do with it a really cool thing can be to go
scroll through some presets and get an idea of where this photo could go or get
several ideas because sometimes four or five different presets might work on one
photo and then you'll have all these options of where do you really want to
take it do you want it dark and moody do you want it bright do you want it
saturated you want to desaturated so many options just to inspire you and the
fourth reason is to reverse engineer and learn from presets so if you purchase
some presets from your favorite creator you can actually go through and see
their settings what they're using on their photos and if you understand what
all the settings mean in Lightroom you can actually reverse engineer that and
kind of get into their head and figure out what they were thinking and then
apply some of that stuff to your own photography later
so enough trying to convince you that it's good leave a comment below tell me
what you think about using presets whether you think it's a good thing or a
bad thing and let's get on with the tutorial part of it so first and
foremost after you download presets from wherever you get them whether they're
mine or somebody else's you're gonna need to import them into Lightroom and
how you do that is when you're in Lightroom you're gonna select a photo
and you're gonna hit D to go to the develop tab or you can go up here and
click here over on the left hand side there's a bunch of drop-down menu that
presets to open that we're gonna hit the plus symbol import presets
we're gonna go to wherever we saved our presets so if you happen to have the
DUNNA 2018 Lightroom preset back oh one you're gonna go inside dunna presets and
you're gonna see all of them click the top one hold shift and click the bottom
one and you're gonna click import a Dunna
presets folder was gonna pop up all of the presets are inside it now now you've
got all the presets loaded into Lightroom they're all available for you
now to use let's get into using them now with my specific preset pack I don't
pull any punches I'm not going easy on these some of these
are like super saturated some of them are really contrasty these are real life
examples of things that I've used on actual photos that I post to Instagram
so I'm not holding back at all all twelve of these are very unique and work
in a number of different situations and to prove that I asked you guys to send
in some photos that I could actually play around with so I'm gonna show you
guys my process if I was to try and make a quick edit I've got eleven photos that
you guys sent me over on Instagram and I'm gonna go through and go through my
presets and make some adjustments one of the things that's really important to
remember is that a preset isn't an end-all be-all solution it can get you
really close sometimes but there's usually some other tweaking that you
have to do so it's really important to understand the settings and that kind of
stuff within Lightroom but it does get you really close and it certainly gives
you a step in a certain direction artistically so typically what I would
do first is I'm going to pop up a picture so this first one we've got a
guy playing guitar and then on the left hand side if I just hover over my first
preset called archery here it's gonna automatically show me a preview of what
that would look like now in my opinion it kind of blows things out and it's
quite a bit saturated let's see if there's something else archetype is a
little bit better backlit freshly ground beans
maybe a little too contrasty it's already a contrasty photo give me a
low fade oh that's kind of cool golden oldie we've got a kind of a
vintage kind of fading thing into the distance that one's kind of nice
light-hearted that one's kind of moody and dark Pink Panther
I'm not liking how the oranges look in that one Sun silhouette that's kind of
cool with the blacks crushed down like that forest it's okay
vintagio so I think at all those archetype was probably my favorite for
this photo so just to make it clear the preset doesn't finish the process what I
would do is I would choose a preset that I think looks
close or is at least going in the right direction for that photo and then I'm
gonna go over and I'm gonna mess a little bit with my exposure and
potentially with my white balance depending on if the white balance was
right for the shot in the first place so right now I'm thinking this one maybe
looks a little bit underexposed for where I want it I want it to be that
kind of nice warm bright day so I'm gonna bring this up just a little bit
and I like the colors but it's maybe a little bit oversaturated and by a little
bit I mean quite a bit I really went hard on the saturation for that one
so dial that back a little bit and here's before and after so I was like a what a 35
second edit pretty easy okay let's move on to the next one
next photo quite dark but a beautiful kind of landscape we've got going on
here I think what would be kind of cool for this is my preset vintagio it's
designed for shots that were taken that are a little bit underexposed or quite a
bit underexposed and it brings it up and it gives it kind of this cool vintage
look maybe bring it up just a hair more on the exposure bring up the shadows a
little bit more get some detail in those mountains yeah at this point maybe you
could straighten up the horizon a little bit that's looking pretty good on to the
next one yeah nice bird here so I'm just gonna flip through whoo our tree looks
pretty cool I think it's between Pink Panther and archery I think I like
archery and again you bring the exposure up just a hair and before and after very
cool next one so we got a portrait photo this one's shot in a forest hey I've got
a preset called the forest let's see where that's at, kind of dark and moody
ooh there we go into the distance super Moody super dark let's bring up
the exposure just a hair I don't want to bring it up too much because I like the
kind of dark mood this has going on so before and after very cool on to the
next one we got another portrait photo let's go
from the top archery is a little intense archetype looks good so for this one
with the colors on the graffiti in the background I feel like it would be cool
to get something with some nice saturation to it I think archetype's
probably the best the orange is just a hair too much for me so I'm just gonna
go into my saturation in my HSL and dial back the orange a little bit maybe go to
luminance and bring it up and bring up the exposure a little bit so before
after onto the next one we got this creepy character a dark moody kind of
look well I kinda actually really like backlit
so before and after before after really cool love these photos you guys thank
you so much to everyone who sent in photos here's some nighttime photography
so we've gone through landscapes and portraits and animal photography now
we've got some night time with the the cool light trails pink Panther's kind of
cool on that one it makes it like glow go back the exposure just a little bit
there I'm pretty happy with that one feels good
before after a little bit of a fade a little bit of an intensity with the
colors bring those Reds out a lot and we're good to go
this is another cool one quite a bit underexposed so we're gonna find
something that works this is one of the ones where it's kind of cool to go
through your presets but know you're gonna have to mess with things
afterwards I think I like to give me a low fade best so we put it on there now
we're gonna go into the exposure bring that up and the shadows up it's got kind
of this sad desaturated kind of look let's try something else on this one to Pink
Panther that one's pretty cool before and after onto the next one this is a
beautifully taken photo this is a great example of what I was talking about
before so out of the twelve probably four or five of them worked really cool
with this photo just need a couple of little tweaks and it goes the other way
too sometimes you'll get a photo that just none of them will work and that's
why it's important to understand what's going on in Lightroom and be able to do
them from scratch if you have to but sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't
I don't even know which one to pick here I really liked freshly ground beans I
think on this one and then let's go in put a basic bring up my exposure lens
corrections to get rid of the vignette I mean that's keeping it pretty
natural-looking if you wanted to go crazy backlit was a little bit more
intense as far as everything going on there bring that up
that's very cool so before and after loved this photo I had to leave one of a
cat in there to honor our feline brothers and sisters I think I like
golden oldie on this one I like it kind of faded out like the cat's looking a
little a little creepy just make a couple of little tweaks you got before
and after and on to the last one for all those family photographers out there
people taking pictures of their kids
I think this one might be my favorite pulled down my highlights just a hair
and expose it a little bit better for the skin and the only other thing there
is I think the Reds are a little intense we're gonna go into HSL in the
saturation we're just gonna pull back the Reds just a little bit and that
one's looking pretty cool so before and after now as you can see not every
preset works on every photo that's not really how it works what these are
designed to do is to give you a little bit of inspiration and maybe make your
life a little bit easier so you don't have to go through every time if you
just want to get an insta banger up really quick go through them see which
one you like the best on that specific photo make a couple of tweaks before you
export but I must admit on some of those it gets you pretty close with the first
click again these presets are available at dunnadidit.com they're gonna be $5
until the end of July if you type in the code cheap presets if you have any
questions about these make sure to leave them in the comment box or hit me up on
Instagram it's at dunna did it if you're having any problems whatsoever let me
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