Now I love using presets;
not as a one
click fix, but a great way to get us
started when editing our pictures,
but a really great way so that we can create a look
and apply it again and again and again.
And it's this really popular, dark and moody look that
I want to share with you in this video,
but also show you how we can make it a preset
so that we can use it again in Camera Raw, Lightroom
Classic, Lightroom CC and Lightroom Mobile.
Alright, let's not waste any time, let's just dive straight
in. I'm going to do this in Lightroom Classic,
but obviously the settings would be the same
if you're doing it in Camera Raw.
I'm going to use this image, so we'll
kick off in the develop module and the basics tab.
First of all, I'll add a bit of warmth
using the temperature slider and take that to around about +10.
I’ll also add the same amount on the tint.
Now the look we're going for is quite contrasty,
so I'm going to drag the contrast slider to the right
to around about +30., and to add to that contrast
I’ll darken the shadows down to around about -50.
I'll also increase the blacks.
Now that adds contrast and darkens
the image down quite a bit
and we can lose some detail in the darkest areas.
So then I'll go to the tone
curve and drag this bottom left point upwards.
To stop it also affecting the mid tones
I'll click to add a point here to lock that area
and then drag the bottom left up just a touch.
You can see when I do the before
and after how that changes things.
Now let's dive into the HSL section.
This is where we can really darken things down.
First of all, in the Hue, I'll increase the reds just a touch
and I'll take the yellows to -100.
I’ll then go to the saturation section
and I’ll leave the reds alone so that we don't
desaturate the skin, but I'll reduce the oranges
to remove some of that from the skin tone.
The rest of the sliders though I'll take all the way
to -100.
Lastly, in the luminance, I'll increase the reds to around
20, which will brighten the skin tone
and the rest I’ll increase not so much,
maybe around about +15.
Then we come to the color
grading section, which I absolutely love.
We’ll add some cool blue tones into the shadows.
So I'll choose a blue then hold down the shift key
to lock it in so that I can then just affect the saturation.
Then I'll go to the highlights color wheel
and add a bit of warmth.
Again, choosing the color I want
and then holding down the shift key to control the saturation.
Next I'll go to the effects tab
and add just a little bit of a vignette.
Okay, so this is before and after, before and after.
Okay, so now let's make this a preset
that we can use with just one click.
I'll go to the Presets over on the left hand side and click
on the plus icon and create preset.
I'll give the presets a name and make sure it's saved
in the user presets section so it's easy to find later.
In here, I'll make sure that all of the adjustments are ticked
and also make sure
that the support for amount slider is ticked.
That's going to give us even more creative choices
when we apply the preset later on.
Then I simply click on Create and we can see
now that the preset appears in the user presets folder.
So if we want to apply it to other images like I have here,
I can just click on it to apply it.
The great thing about this being a preset too,
is that the adjustments aren't baked in.
If we want to, we can fine tune even further.
But having this amount slider to dial in the strength we want
is incredibly useful.
We can leave it as is, reduce the look by dragging the slider
to the left or increase the look by dragging the slider
to the right.
Now to get this preset into Lightroom CC and even
Lightroom Mobile, here’s one quick way that we can do it.
Now in Lightroom
Classic I've got a folder that is synched with Lightroom.
I'll drag this image that we've applied the preset to
into it.
That file then syncs with Lightroom CC,
which we can see here.
I then go to the Presets section,
create a preset and click on Save.
Now that preset is now in Lightroom CC,
which also means that it's in Lightroom Mobile.
So if I dive over to my phone and look in Lightroom Mobile,
it'll be there too.
How everything syncs across
all the apps and onto the mobile workflow really excites me.
I genuinely cannot wait to see how that develops.
But that is the dark and moody preset, a really popular
look, especially across social media these days.
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