- Bonjour mesdames et messieurs,
in this episode I'm gonna give you
27 amazing Photoshop presets for free.
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Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, my name is Serge Ramelli,
I'm a French Photographer from the amazing, the romantic,
the incredible city of Paris, France,
living in Los Angeles, California.
There was a major update to Photoshop recently
where you can really now use the power of presets
and I want to show you all about that
and for this, I'm gonna give you 27
of some of my best presets for free.
Now, I got a professional pack
which you can purchase down below this video
but, all I'm showing you is only using my free presets
and here you are.
Alright guys, I'm very excited
to give you these 27 Photoshop presets for free.
And I've never really used preset in Photoshop
because it didn't really work well
because it couldn't save a local adjustment
up to a few weeks ago.
So for this to work, you have to use a version
of Camera Raw and Photoshop that's pretty recent.
I'm using, let me see, so I'm gonna double-click
on that just to give you an idea.
I am going to be using Photoshop about Camera Raw.
Right now I'm using version 10.4, okay.
You need to update your Camera Raw for this to work,
you need to also have Lightroom installed.
We're not gonna use Lightroom,
we're just gonna use Lightroom to install the preset.
There is other ways around using Lightroom
to install a preset, but it does not always work well.
So, I'll show you that, but let me show you first,
the power of the preset I'm giving you.
So this is a nice sunset photo I shot
in Corsica a while back, and now
I'm gonna go to my preset, I've installed the preset,
I'm gonna go to search basic and I'm gonna use basic sunset.
And as I over my mouse, boom, check this out,
it did a major retouching.
I can still go back to my basic settings
and I can still adjust, or maybe it's a little too yellow,
maybe add a bit more blue, so voila!
I can completely change the temperature,
I can make it a little more blue,
I can even add a gradient if I want.
And on this gradient, I'm not gonna lower the exposure,
I might add a little bit of blue.
A preset is a starting point,
but it's a cool starting point.
And voila, you can click on the hand to go out of that.
Let me show you the before, P.
Before, P is for the before, P is for the after,
check this out, quite amazing.
Okay, let me show you an example, and I'm gonna give you,
by the way, this raw file and the 27 presets for free,
all you have to do is click the link under the video.
Okay, next one, I'm gonna go back to bridge,
I'm gonna take this one.
This is a photo I shot in Switzerland,
so same thing, I gonna go to the second before last tab,
and on this one I'm gonna use the bad weather preset.
Look at that, the bad weather preset,
they work great in Lightroom.
Just the bad weather, I use them
to add color to a bad weather photo.
So here I am, I can go back to the basic settings.
So you've gotta be careful, because some of my presets
also have local tools into it, so for example,
if I click here, you can see I've applied a gradient,
but it's not in the right position,
so you can just move it around
and make it in the right position, something like this.
So there is a gradient, but you just have to move it around.
This one is also not in the right.
It's very easy to move, you just move this around.
I like to have a gradient to close my photos,
so that the attention of the viewer goes inside.
Let's see here, this one I'm gonna make it a bit stronger,
something like this and I can click on the hand here
to go back to the basic settings, that's what I do.
Contrast, maybe add even more contrast, lower the exposure,
add a bit of clarity if you want to.
Check it out, before, P.
After, maybe the clarity doesn't work, but you get the idea.
So now let me give you another example.
I'm gonna cancel out of this, I'm gonna go back to bridge.
Again I'm giving yo all these raw files
so you can play around with and all the 27 presets.
So this one is really screaming for black and white,
so I'm gonna go here, and I'm giving you
all my black and white presets.
So preset, check this out, it's a black and white series,
so AA stands for Ansel Adams, that's between you and me,
and I'm gonna go, and if you hover over the preset
you can see what it does.
Okay, I'm gonna take the middle one.
Look at that, and then you can go here,
and you can adjust the gradients.
You always have to adjust the gradients,
but also, on some of the presets,
I'm also using radial circles,
you have to click on the circle, and you see,
and position the circle at the right place.
Maybe this one, it makes things a bit brighter,
so this one I'm gonna put here,
so that I focus the attention of the photo on the viewer.
This just breaks the gradients here.
Maybe this one I can position it here,
and this one I can position it here.
So sometimes, when you have a graded filter, like this one,
you see, it darkens the top of that statue.
So what you can do is you can select it,
and there's a new option in Camera Raw now,
which is here, called range mask.
And if you go to luminance and you move this slider
to the right, you see what's gonna happen is
that the gradient is still gonna be effective,
but it's not gonna affect the statue anymore,
isn't that cool? Isn't that cool?
Okay, I can go click on the hand
to go back to the general settings.
Click on this for the marginal settings,
and then maybe lower the exposure.
If I'm going a little too fast, you can check out,
I've got a lot of tutorials on how to use Camera Raw,
this is really just here to preset.
And I can make the horizon straight, but you get the idea.
Let me show you the before, P for before,
after, before, after.
Okay, I think I have one more example for you guys.
And let's go back to bridge.
Oh yeah, this one I shot in New Zealand,
a little long exposure so same thing,
I'm gonna go here.
On this one maybe I use one of the bad weather,
maybe I use one of the bad weather, yeah bad weather three,
I think I'm gonna use on this one.
You see the same thing here, I've got a graded filter,
it darkens the top of the trees there,
so I'm gonna go here into my graded filter,
select it, go to range mask, luminance,
and maybe just take that out a little bit, yes.
Okay and then, well it's actually pretty well positioned.
Okay maybe a little bit of more gradient.
Yeah really don't wanna, I don't wanna
darken too much the trees there.
And then this one I can position it, also how I want.
You know you just move it around like this.
Okay, and then I can click on the hand
to go back to general settings,
click on the first tab, and then on this one,
maybe I'm gonna lower the exposure a little bit
to make it more dramatic, oh yes, I love that.
Check it out, before, after, before after.
It was a long exposure but now I get all the sky
and if you think it's too dramatic,
you can just increase and maybe lower the highlights.
Some people find I do too much dramatic stuff,
so I can go less dramatic, like this,
or I can even lower the contrast and go much less dramatic.
Or whatever, whatever it please you.
But the preset is gonna give you a cool,
I mean it's 27 different free presets.
Now, so that's what I wanna show you now,
how do you install them?
Well, there is two ways, you can go here
and you can click this little menu
and click on load settings, but the problem is
that you're gonna load one after the other,
so I'm gonna go on my desktop,
and that's what I'm gonna give you for free,
it's this folder called Photoshop Camera Raw preset,
and you see this 27 folder, 27 presets there.
So I could click one and click load and do that 27 times,
or you can go to Lightroom, and in Lightroom,
you can go to your preset develop section,
even if you don't use Lightroom,
just open Lightroom, go to develop,
find the preset panel here, click on the plus
and import preset, and this time you can select
all the presets, boom, you import it.
And that's gonna update it for Lightroom
and that's gonna update it for Photoshop.
So it's just a quick way for you to import all the presets.
There is other ways, where you can directly go
into the right folder, into your system,
but that does not always work,
I've had a lot of issues with that.
Well now let me show you again the
before and after of this one.
So I'm gonna give you all the raw files
and the 27 presets for free so you can tryout.
Please do not sell my photos, and do not resell my preset,
this is just for you, for you to train
to see how I retouch my photos.
And then, adapt them to your own liking.
Oh, by the way guys, I'm gonna be doing
a whole bunch of workshops, I've got two workshops
coming up in Los Angeles and then one in Venice,
one in Florence, and one in Paris.
So if you wanna come and join me and take some photos,
each workshop is four days.
I would love to see how you take photos,
look through your camera, help you set up your camera,
and then retouch the photo with you.
This is limited to ten people and you can economize
up to 1000 dollars if you book now.
So the link is below the video.
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And I can't wait to see you in my next video,
mesdames and messieurs, au revoir.