- What's up everybody?
Peter McKinnon here and today we're talking about
how you can start using Lightroom presets
on your mobile phone.
That way you can just start being a savage on the go.
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What's up everybody, welcome back to another video.
Happy Monday, hope you guys are all havin'
a fantastic day.
Quick reminder before we jump into anything,
hang on a second.
I am giving this away, along with a whole slew
of other things, the 5D Mark IV with the 24-105,
the Aperture 120 light with the light dome,
five different James Coffee packages with the
new hats, that by the way sold out in like an hour,
you guys are absolutely incredible.
We're gonna work on a V2, but it's gonna be a little while
'til we get them back in stock.
Thank you.
That contest ends tonight, I think it ends
in 10 hours or something, so if you have not
entered for your chance to win yet,
I think there's like several different ways to do it
that bump your chances, so you get more entries.
The link is below, it's the last time I can talk about
because the next time you hear me talking about it,
I'm gonna be giving it away.
So if you haven't hopped on that train yet, do so.
I did a video a couple weeks ago about how to
just step up your mobile photography using
a couple new accessories, and some lenses,
and utilizing the power that is
the new Lightroom mobile app.
It's absolutely incredible, and if you're not using it,
I highly recommend you download it and check it out.
It offers a huge amount of awesome for photographers
or people just messin' around, so again
the video is up there, I'll link it somewhere,
you guys can check that out.
Now subsequently to that, I put out my new preset packs
several weeks ago as well.
Now the number one question being asked is
do these work on Lightroom mobile?
And I understand the question, I understand
why everyone wants to know that,
because 50% of people these days are consuming
content on their phone, they're creating content
with their phone, so havin' to always go back
to the computer, load your shots into Lightroom
on your laptop or your iMac or whatever it is
that you're using, sometimes you just wanna
drop a preset on that on the go.
Maybe you're on the bus, subway, you're driving
somewhere or hangin' out with buddies downtown, whatever.
You just wanna edit some shots and throw them up
on the Gram real quick, you don't wanna have to worry
about the whole hoopla.
I haven't used that word before, hoopla.
I'm not even sure that I like that word.
You don't wanna have to worry about the whole
I don't even know, what do I use in it's place.
You don't wanna have to worry about the whole process
to just upload a photo.
So probably was, what was it, like four, five days ago now
I got a great email from this young dude named Josh Hartung.
Josh if you're watching, I dedicate this tutorial to you.
But he showed me how to get my own presets working
with mobile Lightroom, with this giant 12 page PDF
that he did, it's just incredible.
It blew my mind, but I put together a tutorial
so that you guys can do it as well.
So if you have presets, and they don't have to be
my presets, this isn't just like a this only works
with my stuff.
Any presets at all, if you wanna use these in Lightroom,
this will work.
You can use them with mine, those are linked below as well,
there's about 15 different styles and looks
that you can use to edit your photos in one click,
and then tweak them from there.
Without further ado, we're gonna jump into the computer
and get into how to use these presets
on your phone, woo!
So I'll forewarn you that this process it's a little
bit involved, it's not hard and it's not difficult,
you only have to do it once.
But it's like it's a little bit of a pain in the ass
to have to kind of work through.
I don't know if there's an official Adobe
certified, approved, created, coded, Lightroom presets
that you can load into the app that are from other people
and other creators.
I don't know that that exists yet,
if it does, totally let me know below,
I'd love to know.
But this is a great little workaround.
It works incredibly well, it doesn't take
very long to do.
So open up Lightroom, follow along,
and we'll have you off to the races in no time.
Then again, it is me, so it might be another 15 minutes,
who knows!
Okay, so the first thing you're gonna wanna do,
once you've opened Lightroom is come over here
to collections and hit that little plus.
Select create collection, and now it's gonna
open up a new dialogue box, and then you just name it
whatever you want.
So we're gonna name it PM Presets 2017 - Mobile Edition.
And then when you're done, just hit create.
Now you don't have to do this next step,
but I did it just because I'm super OCD
and I like everything to just look visually appealing
when I'm using anything on my computer.
So I took 15 shots, and then on each of those shots,
I went into Photoshop and I just typed the name
of the preset over each individual photo.
Let me show you.
So these are all the pictures I made,
and I named them the preset that I wanted it to be.
So Ansel, Avatar, Brighten Me Up, dolomite,
Frontier, HeatStroke, Kodak Summer, machiato,
you guys get the point.
So I did that for all of my presets,
and I made basically 15 little thumbnails
so that I could identify them when I'm using
them on my phone.
Now you wanna go into Lightroom and import
all the thumbnails that you just made
into the new collection that you just made,
like this.
Come down here, navigate to where you saved them,
come over here, to add to collection,
and click PM Presets 2017, then click import.
Good to go.
Alright, so once you've imported those,
now we need to click on the develop module
of Lightroom.
So go up here, and click develop,
and then we wanna apply that corresponding preset
to each photo thumbnail that we made.
So domomite goes on this one, so I'm gonna click
that and add dolomite to this thumbnail,
so on and so forth, through all the thumbnails
that we just imported.
Alright, so we got HeatStroke, we'll come over here,
we'll add HeatStroke to this thumbnail.
Come over here, we're gonna add Frontier.
Go over to Avatar, which is the next one,
we're gonna go ahead and add that preset
to this thumbnail, now go ahead
and finish out the rest of those,
and when you're done, we're gonna sync those
with Lightroom mobile.
Once we're done with that, we're gonna go back
up to the top, hit library.
We're gonna come down to the bottom left corner,
right click on that collection we just made
and make sure that sync with Lightroom mobile
is selected, that's key.
Now if you've already got that synced,
these should already be syncing over to your phone.
If you don't, make sure that is selected,
because that's the key to the whole thing.
Some of you might not have that option,
you might go over there, right click on it,
and you might say Pete, there is no sync with mobile
Lightroom option to click on, what do I do?
Go up to the top here, click on your name,
and make sure sync with Lightroom mobile is not paused,
make sure it's going.
You see that there?
Lightroom with sync the photos in your synced collection
with other Lightroom mobile clients.
So if you were to pause that,
you're not gonna get that option.
So you wanna make sure that is not paused
and it is going and you are good to go.
After you've done that, you're pretty much done
with the computer part, it's all into how to do it
with your phone.
So let me show you that right now.
Okay, so go ahead and launch that Lightroom app
on your phone, and you'll see down there
in collections, that's our presets.
So if we click on that, you can see all of the
presets that we've just made with our tidy
little thumbnails, which look great.
So the way this works is a little backward,
you're actually gonna select the preset
that you wanna use first before you select the photo,
and I'll show you what I mean.
So go into the list of presets that you have,
select the one you wanna use,
we're gonna use Red Crush.
Just by clicking it is gonna activate it,
and you'll see in the top left corner there
a little cloud icon, and when that cloud's done loading,
that means that preset's essentially been engaged.
Hit the back arrow, go through your catalog,
find the photo that you wanna edit,
then this is what's gonna happen,
you're gonna swipe all the way to the left,
revealing a button at the bottom
that says previous.
Right down here.
You're gonna select previous,
and then you're gonna see basic tones
or all from previous.
Choose all from previous, and that effectively
adds the Red Crush preset to your photo.
Now it's just like anything, you can go in,
tweak the colors, bring down that orange,
bring up that red, change the luminance,
change the saturation, add some clarity highlights,
all of that stuff is the same,
you can still tweak and adjust those presets,
you're just doing it in the mobile app now.
Let's try it again.
For example, let's use the dolomite preset
on a picture of some coffee.
So by clicking on dolomite, that selects the preset,
we're gonna go back, back again,
into our Lightroom mobile library,
choose a photo that we wanna apply this to,
select it, it's gonna open up right here,
then we're gonna slide over at the bottom,
hit previous, and then all from previous,
and you'll see there's the dolomite preset
applied to a picture of coffee that we took
from our phone.
I like the way this looks, so you're just gonna
hit that little button in the top right corner,
that's gonna let you export it,
save it to camera roll, maximum size available,
and now you can upload that to Instagram.
Also if you want to actually crop this for Instagram,
you can just come over to the crop section,
swipe over to where it says 3 x 2 and change
that to custom, then you can just drag it
where you want, and what you can do
is go up and select the actual 5 x 4 crop setting,
which is called 4 x 5 on this,
position it to where you want,
and when you're done with that,
you're just gonna hit that check mark
at the bottom corner.
You can save that to the camera roll,
and then you can go ahead and export that
and upload that to Instagram as well.
So that is effectively how to use presets
with Lightroom mobile.
It's a little confusing, but if you take your time,
follow these steps, and just do it a few times,
maybe just rock it for the day,
take some photos, add some presets,
you'll quickly understand that it's actually
not very difficult, it's just a little bit
of a setup to get there.
So I hope you guys enjoy that,
thanks so much for joining me today.
Don't forget, you got 10 hours left to win
that camera, links below for that.
If you wanna check out my presets,
like some of the ones we were using in these videos,
so that you can start using them with your phone,
links below as well.
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Today we're talkin' about how you can start using
your Lightroom presets on your mobile phone,
which is woohoo!
Which is just dope!
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Alright.
I should probably do that again.
(laughs)
I need another coffee.
I need like two more coffees.
I need all the coffee ever.
I didn't realize this was still rolling.
Okay.