- Bonjour, madams and monsieur,
In this episode, I wanna show you
how to use preset in Photoshop
to make really cool, Instagram-famous looks.
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Bonjour, madams and monsieur,
my name is Serge Ramelli,
I'm a French photographer
from the amazing cities of Paris, France.
Right now I am in Paris, doing my Paris book,
and I wanna show you how to use Photoshop
to get this very famous Instagram look that is so popular,
where you only have one color popping
and everything is very contrasty and desaturated.
Click the download link below to get all the preset.
I'm giving them for free.
You've got 10 amazing, very famous
Instagram preset for free.
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Alright, so let me show you
how to get this amazing look in Photoshop.
Alright guys, so a lot of people's been asking me
how to do like famous Instagrammer,
like Alenpalander style,
where you have basically one very strong color,
a lot of contrast.
By the way, Alen sells his own presets
that you can buy from his Instagram page,
and I totally encourage you to do this.
He's a very creative guy.
I'm going to show you just my way of doing this
and my own spin on it
and, you know, how to do that.
So I decided to create my own sort of presets for Instagram.
You know, basically, these are presets
that's gonna help you take your daylight photo
and make it into a really dramatic, really nice photo.
So I selected a whole bunch of photos from my New York book.
For example, I'm gonna take this view from Times Square
and so I've already installed a whole bunch of preset,
but I wanna show you first how I create this
and how you can install them.
So how to create this kind of preset?
Well what you wanna do, you know,
of course I always give a basic open the shadows,
bring down the highlights, do the black, do the white,
just to get a good sense of contrast on a photo
but the key of this look is basically a lot of contrast.
Okay, but, then you come to here,
to the hue, saturation and luminance,
you go to saturation
and usually what you do is you boost the reds
and you boost the orange,
or you can just boost, like, for example,
I can boost just the reds
and not the orange,
and basically lower the rest.
Not completely, but you lower the saturation
so that mainly the red remains really strong
and you can see right away
it gives sort of a really cool look.
Now, additionally to that,
what you do, is you go into the split toning,
which is the number one, two, three, four, five tab here,
and that's what I do, is in the shadows,
I'm gonna take a bit of blue here
and I'm just gonna add a little bit in the shadows.
So you've got very strong red and in the shadows.
Now, once you have the look like this
that you're very happy,
you can go here to the preset tab, okay,
and you can click here, this little three things,
and click save settings.
So I can save this,
I can decide what I wanna save in this presets
and I'm gonna save everything, alright,
and I'm gonna call it Red try.
Okay, this is an example.
And on this photo, I could decide, for example,
to not have the reds but have the orange
being the main color,
and maybe even the yellows, for example, you know?
Or I can go also to in the hue here
and basically add some red,
or move around the colors a little bit.
The hue is gonna completely alter the colors.
It's gonna make the reds into a more magenta
or into a more red,
it's gonna make the yellow into a more orange,
you know, you decide what you want.
So I what I did now,
is I went into the preset
and I created for you guys
about 10 different presets.
It's all done
and it's different looks you can apply.
I'm just gonna show you an example.
And it's just a starting point.
So that's one example.
Another example, you see,
using the techniques I just showed you
and now, the way you install these presets,
you can download them, the link is below the video.
Let me retouch this photo first.
Like, for example, I think I like this one,
the first one.
I'm gonna click on Red
and then I'm gonna go back to the basic settings
and maybe just add a bit of contrast
and you can click here, pressing Q,
you can see the before and after.
Before, after, before, after or before, after.
You know, different views.
And maybe on this one I wanna crush the blacks even more.
You know, it's only a starting points.
Or make the highlights really bright.
You know, you decide what you want,
but it's gonna make your photos hot.
For this to work, you need have like some kind of red,
or orange or yellow or green.
You need to have some kind of main color in the photo.
Okay, so I'm gonna share the examples,
and first, how do you install presets?
Well, there is two ways.
If you only have Photoshop, it's pretty simple.
You can go here, in this little menu,
and you can go load settings.
I'm going to my desktop, you can see here
I've got all the presets I've prepared for you guys
from, like, famous Instagrammer
and you can just click and load.
The problem is that if you want to see several,
it doesn't work.
If I wanna go to a list
and select all of them
and load them all at once,
it doesn't work.
So if you have Photoshop,
you've got no other way to just load them one by one.
If you have Lightroom,
you can go over to Lightroom, basically,
and you can go in the develop module
and they have a really cool thing.
So you can go to import presets here.
Now, by the way, this really works if you've got a very,
like from September or October version
of Photoshop and Lightroom.
So you've gotta be a Creative Cloud member,
you've gotta have Lightroom
and Photoshop pretty much up-to-date,
but if you go to import preset,
I can go back to the same place
and this time I can even select just a folder
and all that's in it, click import
and Lightroom is gonna import it as a folder
called Famous Instagram
and it's all gonna be there
and it's all gonna be there.
Also, in your Photoshop,
meaning that Lightroom is gonna update your Photoshop.
There is another way
where I can show you in the directory how to do it,
but this should be enough.
Okay, so once you've got this 10 beautiful preset installed,
let me show you what we can do.
So first of all, I'm just gonna open this image.
So I'm gonna go back to bridge
and let's try some other ones.
So this one is like a daylight photo that I shot,
so I'm gonna go to my preset I just gave you,
remember, you have them
and you can go through
and you just look for something that you like.
You know, look for something that you like
and believe me, if you try this on your photos,
I like this one on this one,
and then you can go back here to the basic setting,
you can, you know, says oh, I can boost my blacks,
I maybe wanna boost exposure, maybe less contrast
or more contrast, whatever you wanna do.
Okay, up, I'm gonna open this image,
I'm gonna go back here to bridge,
click the next one.
Look at this one.
This is the one, I shot this in Central Park.
Same thing, I'm gonna go to my preset
and I'm gonna go through.
Wow, some of them really do crazy things
on this kind of photography.
Oh, I like that.
Okay, red nine.
Red nine is perfect.
Okay, I don't even do any corrections.
Open image.
And basically it's gonna give you a really dramatic look
because, I'll check it on this one.
This is a view from the Time Warner Center
of the Columbus Plaza in New York.
It's all crooked, but I'm gonna fix it.
First I'm gonna go through
and see which preset I'm gonna use out of all these presets,
and I think I wanna go crazy on this one.
I think I wanna go crazy like this.
I wanna go crazy like this red nine.
Okay, I'm gonna go back here
and I'm gonna go here to the transform
and just click on auto to make it straight.
I'm happy
and I'm gonna click open image
and I'm just going to retouch a whole bunch of photo
using these presets, go really fast.
Look at this.
I shot this, this is something that I shot from a chopper,
but I really didn't like the colors.
Boring daylight.
So let's see, if come to the rescue,
we can get some kinda look.
Oh, that's kinda cool, a red two works well.
A red three, no too much.
Red four, red nine, no.
Red five, red six, red seven or red eight.
I think my favorite one was red two.
So I'm gonna take red two
and it just brings something kinda cool to the image.
And I'm gonna open the image.
Let's carry on.
This is another one from the Statue of Liberty
from a chopper.
Let's see if we, are we gonna use red two again?
Oh yeah, red two seems to be working really well.
You can always go
and add more contrast, make it brighter if you want,
bring down the highlights, add some clarity.
It's just a good start
and then you can press Q to see the before and after.
Before, really boring,
after, really interesting.
Okay, good.
I love it.
I'm gonna open the image
and now let's go back to this one.
Oh yeah. On this one, I like this.
This is just a regular building
here in New York
and then I'm gonna take this one, red.
Look at that.
More yellow, more red,
red two's gonna make it really red,
red three is crazy, red four is crazy.
Red nine, not so bad.
Red five, red six, red seven.
Think I like the sort of this one.
I think I like that.
Just blue and yellow.
Okay and then I'm gonna go to the transform, here
and click on auto upright,
make it right
and boom, look at that.
Okay, next one here.
Next one, oh, beautiful Bow Bridge photo
here in New York.
I'm actually in Paris right now,
but that was back here in New York.
Look at that.
Look at that!
I love it.
You know, it's just a creative way
to play around with colors.
I love playing around with colors.
It works a lot well.
If you wanna become famous on Instagram,
it's a good way to do that. Look at that.
Look at the look
and I'm gonna go back here,
maybe bring down the highlights, increase the contrast,
bring the exposure or not.
And it's just a fun way to play around, you know?
Give it a shot to your photos.
It's all free,
all you have to do is click the download below
and you all can do this.
So guys, I hope you're gonna enjoy this
and let me show you the final projects.
So we did Central Park, look at that.
I think this is Park Avenue,
Central Park, Columbus Plaza, Statue of Liberty,
Statue of Liberty again, the Bow Bridge
and voila.
Hope you enjoyed this.
Check out this preset,
install them in Photoshop
and you can do it in Lightroom, you can do it in Photoshop,
this is more a Photoshop tutorial
and have fun and be creative.
Alright guys, I hope you like this video
and don't forget to download the preset
and install them.
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Madams and monsieur, I will see you in another video.