What's up everybody, Peter McKinnon here
and today is the day that you have been waiting for.
We're talking Lightroom presets, my new pack has arrived
and we're going to show you, well I'm going to show you
how you can edit your photos to look amazing
with just one click. (whooping)
Also, these trendy holes in the elbows,
I'm digging them.
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Alright, welcome back to another video guys.
So great to have you here.
This, (laughing) this video, I've been getting,
I've been getting blasted on the social sphere
for this video right here.
Months ago I put out LUTs.
Seven of the LUTs that I use
to color grade my footage within Premier Pro
and then I also taught you guys how to use
those same LUTs in Photoshop
if you wanted to apply them to your photos.
But, what that created was a fury of emails,
questions, Instagram DM's, just--
(mimicking gun firing)
Just, I get asked like every single day I get asked
"do these work Lightroom, were these made for Lightroom
"and are you going to make these for Lightroom,
"and if you are when are you going
"to put them out and can I buy them?
"And do you have any, and is there," it goes on and on.
So I know this is a topic that everybody is interested in.
I'm interested in it too, so I'm super excited
to bring this to you today.
So Lightroom presets, they are all the rage.
A lot of photographers sell their own presets,
because it's a little piece
of their unique artistic style that you can own
and apply to your own work so it's awesome.
I've used tons of other artist's presets.
I like a lot of them.
There's a lot that I don't like
and I've also created a ton of my own.
Now, the reason for initially creating presets
and why you would do this in Lightroom,
and this is why I did it,
is because it speeds up the work flow.
After a certain amount of time,
you develop an aesthetic and you can see that
across different Instagramer's grids and profiles.
And if you guys do follow me on Instagram, plug,
here if you look at some of my photos
you can tell there's a distinct style sometimes.
At least I try to go for that.
So a lot of the time when I'm editing photo's
and I come home from a trip,
I'll apply the same presets
to a lot of the photo's that I'm shooting
because it's just a style that I've developed that I enjoy.
And it's fast, instead of going through
the curve adjustments, and the HSL tab,
and grain, and adding all of these different points
and masking and brush.
All that stuff for every photo would take ages.
So now, I basically run through my presets
on different photos that I take,
picking which one looks best,
or which one I like the most and then that photo's done.
Now that photo's done. Now, there's 15 presets in this pack
that cover a wide variety of different types of photo's
and I'll get into what I mean by that in a second.
Some of these I created a while ago.
Some of them I created just for this project.
So if you've seen any of my work in the past,
I'm going to say like, two to three months.
Just about every photo that I've posted on Instagram
uses one of these new presets.
I've been trying them out.
A few of my friends have been trying them out.
I sent them some versions earlier on,
several weeks ago, that kind of thing.
Now, it's important to know that presets
don't look good on every single photo.
No matter who you get presets from, across the board.
There are just some photo's where you just apply it
and you're like, "it just looks horrible,
"like I'm not going to lie this looks,
"honestly this is garbage.
"What have I spent my money on?"
But then there's that one photo that comes around
and you click that same preset and you're like
"oh what who took this, 'cause I didn't take that, how,"
and they just look incredible.
So, it really depends on how that photo was exposed.
How is the lighting in that photo?
Are there tons of shadows, are there too many highlights?
Was it in direct sun, was it shot at night?
Is it shooting into the sun?
All of these factors are really gonna change
the way those presets start to look on your photo's.
When you start using a certain set of presets
over and over and over.
Like, because I use my own a lot.
When I'm actually out shooting in the field,
I'm able to change my settings
based on the scene that I'm photographing.
That I know is gonna look the best
with the presets that I have at home.
So, the sun's setting a little bit.
I know that if I shoot directly into the sun,
and I get a lot of shadows, RedCrush is going to be amazing.
Or if I have a really natural, evenly lit photo,
that doesn't have any sunshine in it
but it's like a cloudy day,
RedCrush is going to be amazing.
But, I know that if I have a photo
that's way too over exposed or in the sunlight or mid day,
RedCrush probably isn't the preset
that I'm going to use that with.
So, a lot of the ones in this pack
are specific to different types of photographs.
For example, I've got one called Mute Master.
Mute Master looks great when you have a really,
really bright photo that's either overexposed.
Or it's just too bright, it was shot mid day,
the sun's at 12 o'clock, blasting down.
Mute Master is going to take all of those tones, mute them,
and you're going to get a really nice vintage feel.
Same thing goes for Frontier.
I modeled Frontier after an old film scanner,
because that's the name of the machine
that scans different negatives to give you a specific look.
So there's lots of grain it,
there's different sized grain in it,
it's got that old school
summer time Kodak film look, and I love that.
Now some people might look at it and be like
"why is this so grainy?"
But that's the look I'm going for.
But that filter looks really really good
when you have perfectly even light
and it's just a tad over exposed.
Because it brings everything down to a really nice,
perfectly exposed film look, that I love.
So what I actually encourage you to do,
and this goes across any presets you buy on the internet,
from here on until the rest of time,
is when you get a new preset pack
grab several photos of portraits.
Grab several landscapes, grab some night time shots,
some early mornings, some sunset.
Get a good mix, get a good variety going.
Bring them all into Lightroom
maybe even stuff that you've shot before,
grab all of those rods.
Make like a big folder of like 50 shots.
Bring them all in and try every preset
on every photo to really get a feel for what works
and what looks good to you.
Because then you know, and when you go shooting next time
you're like "oh yeah."
This scene right here, when I put Heat Stroke on this,
it's (whooping), it's going to look money.
Okay so, that's my recommendation.
Just because a preset might not look good on one photo,
doesn't mean it won't look
just absolutely bomb tasty on another photo.
So, I'm gonna stop talking,
I'm gonna show you what these look like.
I wanna to teach you guys, A,
how to install them into Lightroom,
how to use them, how to tweak them,
and then what my favorites are.
Now if you guys want to pick these up
and actually follow along, with this tutorial,
and how to install them and so on and so forth,
the links are below in the description.
They're just in my SelfiShop, I'm charging 20 bucks.
If you do decide to pay for these and buy them,
I really do thank you.
Thank you very much, I appreciate you.
And thank you for supporting me,
and this channel and my family.
You are the best, fist bump, ready.
One-two-three, I did it, I committed.
Alright so, once you've launched Lightroom
we got to install those presets.
So, what you wanna do
is go up to the left corner, hit Lightroom.
Click on Preferences, and then select the Presets tab.
Come down here and Show Lightroom Presets Folder,
click on that.
Lightroom should already be highlighted.
Double click on that, and you're gonna drop that new folder
that you've downloaded from me
into this Develop Presets folder.
So, just drop it down, you can see it's right here.
All of the presets are inside, you're good to go.
Once you've dropped them in there
you can click out of all of this.
Reset Lightroom, that's important, restart it.
Close it down, open it back up.
So once you've opened it up
and you've imported some photos
that you want to try them out with,
head over to this side bar here where it says Presets.
Drop that down, and then you'll see
Peter McKinnon 2017 Preset Pack.
And you can go ahead and drop that down, boom, here we go.
So the first thing that I want to point out
is when you hover over these presets,
you get a little preview up there in the top left corner.
So that kind of saves you some time,
and shows you right off the bat
what certain things will look like.
So, for instance, I posted this photo
to Instagram yesterday, I used Heat Stroke,
it's just a one click edit.
Let's click that, and boom, there you go.
That's good I think I cropped it for Instagram,
a little bit like this.
And that's how fast it is to edit a photo, so done.
Sometimes like I mentioned, presets just work.
They just look insane, they look amazing,
you got a little bit of an Ansel Adams here.
Throwback film Kodak preset, put some grain in there
which is purposeful, because it just brings out
that old school feel.
And I don't do enough black and white landscape photos
now that I think about it.
But, anyways, you can just go ahead and click on these.
One after the other, to kind of see what they do.
Now for instance, let's click Machiato.
That's a little too washed out.
But if we come over to a photo like this at the end here,
where I took a shot of my friend Chris,
and we apply that same preset right here,
that looks so much better.
I way prefer Machiato on this photo,
than I do on this photo.
So it's an interesting example of how things work.
Again Frontier, for example, was another film based preset
that has some heavy grain on it
for a really stylized old school look.
It works best on photos like this,
that are lit perfectly, overcast, and slightly overexposed.
So when I run Frontier on this photo,
with one click, boom, there you go.
That's exactly the look I was going for.
You got some grain in there.
I'm just pumped with the color tones.
But, if I was to use Frontier on this picture
of Chris sitting on the back of my truck,
lets go one click on that.
It's okay, but it's a little bit dark.
So you can see how it changes completely.
Like, if we used it on this photo,
it would totally kill the colors,
and like that's just, no thanks, like absolutely not.
I don't like that whatsoever.
But if we were to run something like RedCrush,
which is my favorite on this photo.
Look at the difference of that.
So this is what the photo looked like coming out of camera.
One click to RedCrush, which is my favorite,
and there you go it looks amazing.
Now lets say you want to use RedCrush
on a portrait, right here.
Do the same thing, we'll click once,
boom, there we go, RedCrush.
First thing we're going to notice is he looks way too red.
So, you can tweak these presets, don't be afraid to do that.
So all the settings are here on the right side.
You can just scroll down, select orange,
right here in the HSL cube,
and just drop the saturation of orange just a little bit.
Maybe move this closer towards yellow,
and bring that up a little bit more.
And now, it's perfect.
It's a much more summery tone.
It still has all of the values of RedCrush,
but we've tweaked them to work for this photo,
so that it looks better.
So, don't be afraid to do that for,
any of the photo's that you're using it with.
Here's another photo of Matty in the stairwell.
SoHo, is a really nice dramatic kind of a preset.
That's really going to accentuate those shadows,
so if we click on that.
That's another one click one that I really like.
Boom, that looks amazing.
Another great one to use for this is Dolomite.
Which is a colder, lifts the shadows,
which gives you more detail.
I came up with this one, kind of inspiration
from when we were driving those cars
through the Swiss Alps.
A lot of shots I was taking,
I was using this preset to make them colder
and bring out the shadows and the details.
So, this is another favorite of mine.
But, here's an example of a photo,
like just about every preset works with this photo.
So like, the black and white one looks good with this.
Avatar looks pretty good with this.
Brighten me up even looks pretty good with this,
but, it's a little too bright.
But just an example, Kodak Summer,
is a little more of a vintage feel with some contrast.
If you want the same thing,
but a little less but kind of intense,
Heat Stroke is a good one.
Which kind of makes it a little bit cooler.
But if you like that Kodak feel,
and you want it to be a little bit lighter,
Pool Party is a good supplement for that.
It's a little more yellow, but in a sense,
you just go through and you find the photos
that you like and try them out.
Like, lets put Heat Stroke on this shot
and see what it looks like.
That looks great.
So, if you were thinking to yourself
it's still a little bit too bright,
don't be afraid to come over here
and drop that brightness down a little bit.
Maybe drop those highlights, maybe get a little more shadow.
And if you think that there's too much orange in there,
you can get rid of the saturation
of that by coming over here
and dropping that saturation a little.
And then you could add a little bit
of clarity to bring out those trees in the background
and there you go,
you've used that preset, but you've tweaked it
to make the photo look better for your tastes.
So essentially, that's how it works.
Those are the presets, enjoy them.
Like, there's a lot of different things in there.
Example, Brighten Me Up.
One more, Brighten Me Up,
one click completely fixes this photo
and shows you a lot of the detail that was missing,
had you not clicked it in the first place.
So, like I mentioned, just load a whole bunch of photos.
Sorry, just load a whole bunch of photos into Lightroom
and try all of the different presets.
And just look at how kind of interesting
applying these different one's
can make different photos look.
So that, ah man its so freakin' hot in here.
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So that's it for me guys,
thank you so much for watching.
Again, if you bought these or you're going to,
thank you very much I appreciate the support.
Links are below if you want to pick those up.
They're for Lightroom only, just so you guys know
ahead of time, don't try them in Photoshop
or anything like that, they are not going to work.
They're specifically made and designed for Lightroom.
So, again, thank you guys so much, I love you.
And that's it for me, for this video.
I hope you liked it.
I hope you get something out of it.
Now if you're using these presets,
tag me in your photos.
I want to see what you guys are shooting.
I want to see how you're using them.
All my social links are below.
Let's connect, I hope you guys have tons of fun.
I hope these inspire you.
I hope these give you that drive to get outside,
take out that camera,
and try some new stuff that you haven't before.
Combo this with the tips I taught you guys on composition.
Drop some of these new presets on them,
and enjoy the end of summer
because these warm days, if you live where I live,
are coming to an end.
So, make the most of it.
Get out there with your gear, and make it happen, okay?
Love you guys.
Hit that like button if you like this video.
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
It's the truth.
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