- Bonjour madams and monsieur.
In this video,
I'm going to show you
how to achieve one of the most popular look
you can find on the internet,
on Instagram on 500px.
It's called The Desaturated Contrast Look
with a little bit of orange or red,
used by big influencers.
I'm gonna show you how to create it
and how to use it with presets in Lightroom,
and in Photoshop camera roll.
Let's do it.
Madams and monsieur,
what I'm about to show you
is probably the most not kept secret,
but the most successful way of
retouching photos out there on the web.
It's called,
I call it The Contrasty Desaturated Look.
So on my Instagram,
I know have past 115,000 people on Instagram.
And what I try to do is,
I try to do color themes.
So right now,
I'm like in the sort of Blue Hour.
You know, before I was
in the Blue Hour Magenta.
Then I was like in the Golden Hour.
I tried, you know...
I find that if you have a feel
that looks very, you know,
harmonious in color.
It's just always good.
But check this out.
This is how I got the idea to make this video,
because also one other thing
that's people request me the most.
That photo has got 7,137 likes.
That is the highest I ever got for a photo.
The average likes that I get per photo
is usually like between two and 3,000.
4,000 is really exceptional.
You know, 2,000, you know.
Well, this one got 5,000.
2,600, 5,000.
But 7,000 was unheard of.
But if you look,
there is a lot of very popular photographer
using this style.
So what it is,
is a lot of contrast,
like this one for example.
Or this one.
A lot of contrast.
And usually have like one color
that sort of sticks out.
This is Ryan Miller,
a very talented photographer.
He has his style.
But he is not the only one.
It's probably the most requests that I like.
For example, Alenpalander
who's got 693,000
followers on Instagram.
So his photos are very dark,
very black and is usually
just one color sticking out
which is the red, right?
So that's the motif is.
Very high concentrate,
and only one color usually
red, orange sticking out.
Very, very popular.
Petermckinnon who is one of the most
popular YouTuber.
An amazing artist, same thing.
Look at this photo hall,
like everything is kind of like black.
There's a bit of green in the shadows,
and it's just one color sticking out.
And the good thing about this is that,
because this is a great example,
because it's such a high contrast,
it does create impact.
But it doesn't sort of look over retouched
because the colors are not so much saturated,
which is really cool.
But for example, Cyriellegoupil.
She's an influencer who started a year ago.
She's got 42,000 followers on Instagram now.
She has a very similar style,
but you know, more girly.
Where you have the orange,
but instead of going to the black,
she goes to the white.
And you know, as I showed you,
this is the style that...
I love to play around with many styles.
So, I'm going to show you how to achieve this style.
And I'm going to start by my most popular photo ever.
And basically, I have a pack of preset,
called My Cincture Preset.
280 presets which you can get
at a very low price.
The link is right under the video,
where you can get all these presets.
But I'm gonna show you,
If you don't want to buy them,
how you can build it on your own.
Or you can support this channel
and get all the presets,
and you will love it.
I'm also going to show you
how to use it in camera roll.
So, stay until the end,
because I know there's
a lot of camera users out there
who don't like Lightroom.
Now, I'll show you how to do that in camera roll,
but you have to stay until the end.
So, this is how the style is gonna go.
So, you put the contrast almost all the way.
Okay, step number one.
Step number two,
I usually don't play
with the highlights first,
I open the shadows
and then I crush the blacks,
like really a lot, okay?
Then, you add a bit of texture
and a lot of clarity.
But the secret is not this,
the secret lies in the way you toggle
the hue and saturation.
So you go to this panel
called hue and saturation.
And basically you boost the reds and the orange,
the two first one
and you desaturate everything else.
And that's the basic of this style.
Okay, and then of course on this one,
I'm going to press auto.
It's pretty straightforward.
It's actually very easy to achieve.
On this one,
better the few things.
So now, you play with the highlights.
You can decide to, you know,
have a blown out sky
or not a blown out sky,
you decide what to do.
You play with the exposure as you want.
You can play a little bit with the shadows.
But that's the general idea.
Now, there is different things, you know,
I actually...
On my preset,
I made this a little more complex.
I'm going to show you how to use it.
So for example,
sometimes what I do is
I add on top of it a little bit of split toning.
So on this one what I did,
and that's why I like Petermckinnon does a lot.
I'm going to go here in the shadows
and just add a bit of tilt.
So tilt is between green and blue.
That's this color,
it's called teal.
A little bit of teal.
Just a little tad of teal
like this, in the shadows.
And on this one I think,
maybe a little bit less contrast.
A bit less clarity,
maybe a little over the top.
Actually more contrast.
And then lower a little bit.
And that's basically that.
Now, let me show you.
This is another version that I did.
When you play, so,
when you have my preset,
my preset I call it The Cincture Preset.
It's 280 preset.
You have a pack called special effects preset.
In this special effect preset,
you have, and the link is below this video.
If you can get the pack it's really cheap.
It's gonna change your life.
I got over 1,000 emails,
people telling me they couldn't believe
how it helped them grow on Instagram.
Check this out.
One click, Urban contrast dark, boom!
I love it.
It's even better than
what I tried to do manually, okay?
And then I'm going to add a little bit,
I'm just going to make it auto,
on this one.
And then you can tweak it,
you can go into split toning,
like I did before.
And add a little bit of colors in split toning.
Maybe a bit of blue,
maybe a little bit of green.
And not only is this by the way,
not only this is like my...
Little bit of green.
Not only this was my most liked photo ever,
but also it's my most sold ever photo in galleries.
Let me show you another one.
So let's go Urban contrast gold.
Now, gold blue, gold blue lighter.
Ooh! I love that.
Urban constrast red, okay?
And then on this one,
I can, I think open a bit of shadows.
I'm gonna, you know.
And, you know, a preset is a starting point.
I think I want to desaturate it a little bit.
Here, it's too bright.
Remember the eyes go to the
brightest part of the photo.
First I'm going to make my photo straight,
because I can.
And then I'm going to just
add a little bit of gradient
just to get the attention off of here.
And double click on effect
and just lower the exposure.
Check this out.
Maybe on this one, yeah.
On this one maybe,
I think a little brush.
And I double click on effect
to add a bit of exposure,
I lower the the clarity,
and just to add a little bit
more diffused light here.
But this was a photo
that did really well.
I can even lower the saturation
even more if I want to.
So let me show you the before.
This is the before,
and this is the after.
Crazy, now?
Okay, so this photo is three row files
that I made into a panel.
Now, a lot of people don't know
that you can do this in camera roll.
But there is a trick.
For this to work, we need to use,
you need to have the latest version of Photoshop.
Because when you have
the latest version of Lightroom and Photoshop,
once you install the zip file,
that can get you with the link below the video,
once you install it in Lightroom Classic,
A lot of people don't know this,
It's there in Photoshop.
So let me show you.
So this photo for example,
I'm in Bridge.
I'm gonna double click on it
and open it up in Photoshop.
It's gonna to open in camera roll.
Here I am in camera roll and check this out.
This is a new camera roll.
Here is the preset logo.
It's actually the same logo
that you find on Lightroom Mobile.
You click on here
and check this out.
My special effect preset pack,
which you can get.
The link is under the video, is here.
And I can go to.
So, on a special that...
I'm going to show that to you.
So first, let's do the crazy Urban retouch.
Ooh! I love that.
Or this.
Or, this you just go through the preset.
Find something that you like.
Ooh! I like this one.
And then you can go back to the regular settings.
And you can you know, on this one,
I think it's maybe
a little too saturated still.
So I can add a bit more contrast.
And I can even lower
a little bit of saturation if I want to,
but I like the style.
Okay, then I'm going to go to my crop tool,
constraint to the image,
click on done,
and boom!
It's going to take it back into Bridge,
and it's going to be fully retouch.
I can double click and open it up
again in camera roll.
And I can try a different style.
And in fact,
If you've got my special effects presets,
you're also going to get
my amazing Ancel items type retouching.
See how that works,
we do well on that photo.
Check this out.
Really cool. One click.
Let me show you a different style
you can use if you have this pack.
The Hollywood style, look at this.
You know, Hollywood style is just a way
to make a photo that looks kinda boring,
more interesting, you know?
And this goes a long way.
I mean, look at these people
which have like 500,000, 1 million followers.
It's really, even for me,
I was so surprised to see
how much following I got,
once I use this.
It's just probably the most popular,
that's a little too crazy.
The most popular, you know,
style out there.
Let me show you another photo,
still in camera roll.
So I'll go back to Bridge.
This one for example,
this is Cyriell.
This influencer that I am good friend with.
So, she's actually is the wife of...
My wife's son.
And she's amazing.
She gained 40,000 followers on Instagram.
So I'm going to use the Urban,
the same con...
Look at this.
I think there's one that's going to match.
Yeah, this one's too crazy on her.
Ooh! I like that.
Yeah, that I like, check this out.
No, this one's too much.
But this one is kinda cool.
You see? One click.
Okay, let's try another one.
Let's try another one.
Let's go back to Bridge.
And then...
This one. This was a street in Auxerre.
And, which is a city on the West of France.
Let's see, let's go back to the presets.
I love this Urban preset.
They're so cool.
Ooh! Moody moody moody.
Wow. That's kind of crazy.
Yeah, I kind of like this one. Boom!
You know, and you can always
go in there and says,
"Oh, the highlights is too blown away."
It's a style.
It's contrast with desaturation.
But give it a shot on your photos,
you will be amazed.
Okay, one more,
so you can see the power of this preset.
This is a shot that I did of Arthur.
He's a comedian that I work with
when I direct short movies.
One of my favorite comedian.
And he just got a really badass motorbike.
So you have to be careful on the skin tone,
some of this can be really extreme.
So, yeah.
I think I'm gonna take this one.
I like this one.
And again, you know,
I might want to recover
some of the highlights,
so I go back there.
So, I'm in camera roll,
I'm doing this in camera roll.
And, you know,
voila!
I can even add a little gradient
here in camera roll.
Gradients are now on the right side.
And, so whether if you don't like,
you know, like this,
and then, you know,
to make it a little more interesting.
I hope you like this style,
give it a shot.
Get my Cincture Presets.
You won't believe them.
They're really good.
I use them every day.
And I hope it brings you luck.
Thank you very much.