- What's going on guys?
Welcome to this week's episode.
This week we were talking about Lightroom presets.
Now, Peter McKinnon kept bugging me,
when are you gonna release Lightroom presets?
When are you gonna release Lightroom presets?
When are you gonna lease Lightroom presets?
Try to say that three times, fast.
I can't even say it to you but anyways,
he kept bugging me, then you guys kept bugging me,
when are you gonna release Lightroom presets?
So that's what this video is all about,
my brand new Lightroom presets
that you guys can edit all your photos
when you take them in raw, in just one-click.
Look guys, I'm getting better at counting now.
One click to make them pop, to make them look awesome,
to kind of get the style that I really like
and hopefully you can start implementing it in your style.
So, let's get right into it, boo!
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So at this point, if you guys want to follow along,
you can pick up my Lightroom presets
in my Sellfy account right down there.
A quick note, thank you to anyone
who has supported me previous to this,
who has purchased the Lightroom presets
and anybody who's about to buy them right now.
Thank you so much for supporting me
and my art and creative and my family
and everyone else because this just allows me
to create more YouTube videos for you guys,
so we can have a little bit more fun.
So if you guys do pick those out, thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
Moving right along, Lightroom.
When I say Lightroom, it's not Photoshop,
it's not any of the other apps.
These presets are designed for Lightroom only,
that's Adobe Lightroom.
Do not use them anywhere else.
Now you're probably thinking, why presets?
The reason why people use presets,
is that it speeds up your workflow.
It helps you generate the photos
and the looks that I want a lot quicker.
So let's say I go out on a shoot,
I've shot a mountain or if shot a portrait before,
well, I have certain looks that I can use
over and over again, so that I'm kind of getting
the same style, the same looks,
the same final results that I think sell well
or do well for me and that's a personal taste.
Not everyone's gonna like that style,
but these are things that I can kind of keep coming back to.
So I've purchased tons and tons of other creators' presets.
I've built my own over the years
and I've narrowed it down to 15
that I think you guys will actually really love
and from the feedback from the people
that have actually used them already,
people are loving them and it's actually nice to see.
There's this one girl, shout out to this one girl
from Norway that purchased them and she started using them.
I saw her photos, I was like damn girl.
These are dope!
These look great.
I should have sent it as like a voice note, damn girl.
So there's a variety of different things,
anything from black and white to Kilawatt,
which is this super sunbursty, nice-feeling,
Iced Out, which is just cool,
it works really well for like metal environments
or urban environments.
So there's a huge variety
of different looks that you can use.
Funny story, you want to know how I named these presets?
It was a weekend, my girlfriend wanted to go
to a makeup shop, so I said, let's go to the makeup shop.
So I'm looking around and I'm reading some of the lipsticks
and they actually had super dope names.
Five out of the 15 names for my presets
are actually named after lipsticks that I found in a store,
just 'cause I thought the names were super dope.
So I'll let you decide whatever you think
the lipstick names were below
and you can take a guess of which ones I took.
Now, there's nothing wrong from starting from scratch
on a photo but when you kind of get to a point
where you're doing almost a photo shoot every single day
like where we're at, I like to be able to import
my raw photos, pick a preset and be like okay,
basically this photo is almost done,
tweak it a little bit from that preset and then finish.
So I can actually shave off hours of my editing time
so that I can either just enjoy more time with my family
or go and work on other projects.
If I'm budgeting for a shoot,
I know that this is actually going to take me four hours
to edit instead of eight hours, so it saves money
for the client, it speeds up your workflow
so that you're not spending the entire day
editing photos from scratch.
You can copy and paste the look.
So this is why we use presets
and why I think you should be using presets as well.
So important thing to keep in mind,
is maybe import a bunch of photos that you've taken,
start applying the presets to them,
see where like, I really like this one on a portrait photo,
I really like this on shooting right into the sun,
I really like this on a landscape photo,
I really like this when my dad's taking out the garbage.
I don't know why that would be your photo
but let's say that's the preset that works there.
So nonetheless, start keeping in mind,
when you take a photo, which preset
you might actually be applying to it,
so that you have an idea
of what the final results could look like.
These are my top five favorite presets from my pack,
Gold Rush, which gives this really interesting
kind of artistic look.
I used it on this photo here,
really liked how that turned out.
I also really loved Kilawatt, it's kind of a look
that is synonymous to my photos.
I always like to shoot into the sun,
so this is one that works really, really well
on shooting into the sun.
I also really liked Iced Out, kind of like this cooler,
it works on a metallic, more urban setting,
kind of neon almost.
So that's one I really love kind of cooler,
kind of dig that one, just like chilly,
so I called it Iced Out.
Classic, very creative and original, right Chris?
I really love the black and white look, Number 91,
and that's based off of my year of 1991.
So it's kind of like vintage because it's black and white
and then that's the year I was born and anyways,
I really like that one, looks great on portraits.
Power Haus, of course I spelled house H-A-U,
because, my name, you know, whatevs.
Power Haus is great.
It's just a really nice saturated look,
where you can put it on and kind of boost everything.
I use it a lot on my Mercedes-Benz campaigns,
used it on a ton of photos like that
because it doesn't really manipulate the colors drastically,
it just makes everything pop and look really, really good.
So, Power Haus.
One of my other favorites is Twilight Zone.
Now I remember sending my preset pack to Peter
because we're friends and we like to share
and I wanted to get his insight.
I remember him just being like, Twilight Zone,
little hand emojis, little hand emojis,
and he sent me one of his photos that he tried it on,
I was like dang, Twilight Zone is pretty dope.
So that's one of our favorites,
more of this purple kind of like mystique, mysterious one.
So that's why I kind of called it Twilight Zone.
Alright, so let's delve right into Lightroom right now.
(verbal whooshing)
We are on my desktop right now.
So, here is your preset pack over here.
So now you double click on it to expand it
and here's your little folder.
Now we have Lightroom.
So I've opened it up,
I've already pre-installed a couple
of the photos that I want to use.
So we have a variety of different raw shots
and over on this side,
is where you'll find your Lightroom presets.
Now, let's install these Lightroom presets.
So we're gonna go over here, open them up.
I've also named them all Haus,
so that you can easily find them.
So, coming back here.
You can grab them all.
I like just shift and drag them all
and you can just drag them right onto the Lightroom presets.
It's gonna stay, install, install,
I would like to install all of them
and you're just gonna keep saying yes
until they are all finished.
Cool, so if you go down, you'll actually see
that they're already installed,
so you don't have to close Lightroom,
they're just right here, right now and the nice thing is,
when you scroll over top and let's say you pick a photo,
you can actually scroll over the top of the image
and start seeing which look might work best for you.
So here's a photo of my friend Myles
just looking the most happy on this porch right now.
So we can see that Kilawatt, Lifted,
these ones aren't working and not every single preset
will be the one that you like
but let's say there's one like Iced Out.
Now I would say that actually looks kind of cool.
Maybe we can make this a little bit more purple
and you can kind of start playing around with it
until you end up getting a look that you really like.
I mean, even with one kind of click,
that doesn't look too bad.
So let's start going through a couple
of these other photos here.
So now, here's this photo of this Benz
chilling down by the water.
Obviously I didn't clean my sensor over here,
good job Chris but let's pretend
like that never happened by fixing that.
Oh guys, look, I'm an amazing photographer now.
So now we can start going through it
and looking, all right, well,
Twilight Zone's a little too much.
Soleil is not bad, it looks a little bit overexposed.
Soft Portrait is kind of cool.
Power Haus is not bad and you can start
just kind of scrolling through to see
if there's a look that you like for your photo.
So we're just kind of blasting through
and it looks like High Beam
is actually a kind of a cool look for this.
I would say that looks pretty neat.
You can kind of go in here,
you can make your image look a little bit better afterwards.
we can just go into our kind of brush mode here,
we can go right over the car, add some clarity or so.
I would obviously spend a lot more time
editing this image specifically but like,
back and forth with one click, not too bad.
I think that actually looks pretty good.
So let's start going over to my photo here
of my buddy Miles, wake surfing.
Well, Aloha actually looks pretty sweet.
Let's go to this image of the boat here
that I shot with my little RX100 camera in the water.
So let's go and this is the one
where I really liked Twilight Zone.
Now this is gonna completely change the look.
I think that looks really sweet
and you can kind of, even if you want,
afterwards kind of go into clarity
or boost a bit more of the shadows
to bring a bit more of the boat out.
These are all just a starting or guiding point
to get you to an area that you'd like
and then you can start playing around
with a few other things.
Now when we press Y in Lightroom,
it gives you a before and after
and I would say that actually looks really, really cool.
Now this is one of my favorite ones here, Kilawatt.
I think this one always looks pretty dope
and boom, our image here looks actually pretty awesome.
I'd say it's a little too yellow,
I would just tone it down a little bit here
and right there, that's looking,
that's looking pretty sweet.
Here's a before and after of the image.
I mean, in one click,
that's amazing how different that looks.
Now it's always good to shoot raw.
These were based off a stony profile
but they work with all cameras, Canon, Panasonic,
Nikon, whatever you want to use
but this is what I like to use them on.
I use a Sony and this I think was an A7R.
Here's an image of me touching my hair again,
because that's what I like to do.
Let's kind of take a look here of which one will look good.
Now from what I remember,
I think Imperial, which is more of this soft,
purplish look, looks really good on that image.
So that's what that looks like there.
A little before and afterwards, kind of dig that.
On, off, on off.
Kind of brings out a little bit more detail in the lake.
Finishing off on these last two, coming over here,
we have a shot of me in a helicopter.
Now this is the one I wanted to show you, Number 91,
1991, look at that.
That is just hmm, I'm gonna print that out
and give that as a Christmas present to my mom
and to this last one of me standing in this space dome.
This is where you can check out something like Iced Out.
That looks pretty cool there.
Let's see what else that would look good here.
Ah, Bulletproof.
Now maybe that looks a little bit better.
I think that's what I like there
and we can just boost the exposure up a little bit
on this image, so that you're getting it
to the area and that's kind of it.
A few little before and afterwards of my Lightroom presets
and I want to say it again,
if you guys end up picking up these Lightroom presets,
thank you from the bottom of my heart
for supporting me and everything that I'm doing here,
so that I can continue to make more content for you.
Thank you, guys.
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Anyways guys, I'll see you next time.
Peace.
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