Hey guys Ryan here at Signature Edits and I am pumped to show you the new
preset pack that we've been working on, West Coast. Are you ready? I've got some
photos here. I'm gonna hop over to my library that I've just imported. They are
some travel photos that me and my wife took around Canada, America, Australia,
just a couple random ones to give you some variety. And normally what I would
do is when I import them I would just hit here and I go to the quick develop
and I would probably apply a preset just importing. So I go to West Coast and the
way that these presets are set up is we've got three looks with different
intensities for each look. So Westcoast zero one is the lowest contrast then we've
got. Two which is medium contrast and three which is high contrast look. Then
we have ad saturated version of all three of those and a nighttime version
of all three of those optimized for tungsten light and really dark
situations okay so what I would normally do is I just do this I'd hit West Coast
gyro one and just like that the preset would be applied to all my photos then I
go through and I tweak them however because we're going to be showing you
the pack I'm going to leave them raw like this and go through one at a time
just so you can see what the presets are actually doing to each photo so let me
show you here's West Coast zero one and West Coast ero to adds a little bit of
contrast and let's say we wanted even more I go to West Coast zero three so
for now we're gonna go with Westco zero three on this image because I like it
I'm just gonna straighten this out by pressing R and dragging my crop tool
then I'm going to add a little bit of texture to the clouds using the preset
brushes which are included with every signature at its pack so I've got here
and add texture brush as well as a water sky pop so I'm gonna select this then
I'm going to press o so I can see what I'm doing I'm just really quickly going
to paint on here and you can see that my auto mask is on by mistake and I'll shut
that off and just paint on these clouds
and just like that press o again so there's my clouds after here's before
you can see it really brings out the detail in those an easier way to do that
if you like is all you have to do zoom out here to the 1/16 view make your
brush nice and big and turn on auto mask then click the area of the image you
want to mask press o so you can see what you're doing and it will automatically
mask that area based on the brightness so if it hasn't gotten so
spots you just click them again you've got everything masked that you want now
I can hold down my alt and that will toggle to my eraser and I can just erase
off of the beach here because I don't actually want to affect that just the
clouds and if the water gets affected a little that's fine too okay I'm gonna
press o again and you can see that it's masked out the clouds let's move on to
our next image so this guy right here we're going to apply West Coast zero one
zero two zero three now let's say that I don't like the Greens too much in this
image they're just too saturated for my liking well that's what the D saturated
versions are all about you can select from ad saturated green or saturated
it's really up to you I like the D sat for this one and let's
say I want to darken and put the focus more on our subject here in the middle
I'm going to just go like this go up to my darken preset and bada-bing bada-boom
there we go next image here okay so this one when we look at it we have the sky
has been exposed to keep as much of the details as we can but we're pretty dark
here in the clouds and things look really really flat this photo was taken
with a sony a7 - i believe and that means that the image is gonna look
pretty flat out of the gate now these presets are optimized to work with every
type of camera but you'll see that things don't look perfect out of the
gate because we have to make some changes like we would with any photo of
this kind because we've got so much dynamic range happening so how do we do
this well let's get started on this sky first I'm going to adjust the water
white balance because it looks a little blue to me there we go it's a little
warmer and more natural I'm going to do my trick again by pressing 116 and go
here to my water sky pop make sure my autumn ask is on press o so I can see my
mask and click once on this guy great it got almost everything except for this
little band I'm going to click again there on the band and perfect our skies
mask just like that press so again so I can see what I'm doing I'm going to take
down my exposure just a little bit take up my contrast add a little bit of
saturation and just like that our sunset is looking a lot better than it was for
instance here's before and here's after that
so what else can we do to add a little bit of color to the sunset well if you
want you can hit duplicate and that'll double the effect it's probably would be
way too intense yes you can see that it definitely is so can hold alt and on
this layer I'm going to hit reset and so I've got another mask that I can adjust
however I want I'm going to paint some color on here so I'm going to go up here
I just select one of these colors and you can see it's going to add that color
into our sunset so that's a little trick if your Sun set doesn't have quite the
pop you want and you want to add a little something-something to it so
again here's before that and here's after great
lastly I'm just going to take up the blacks in this cliff a little bit
because it's looking like some things are getting clipped so I'm going to
paint here and let's do the opposite this time we're going to try and Auto
mask out the cliff and the bridge here press o make my brush nice and big and
click somewhere that it's dark wow that was easy hey presto again and we're
going to select just normal lighting maybe take down the contrast a little
take the blacks up and that's looking pretty unnatural so we're going to take
our contrast back up and dial it in a little somewhere around there maybe add
some clarity to bring out the texture in that cliff and that's looking pretty
good to me so here's before and here's after ok so
moving on to our west coast of Canada here we've got some different presets
that we can apply you can see the difference in the moss between the d
saturated and the saturated pretty quick just click and done here's before and
here's the west coast one two and three and here's our D saturated versions so
here's three D saturated and here's three with the saturation you'll notice
most of it is happening in the greens
great really easy so it adds a nice warm tone to your greens more than anything
while still keeping the colors natural is not changing them too much it just
adds that kind of extra organic look to it so here again is up in Canada around
the Okanagan and the wintertime especially all the lakes and the
mountains get this really nice blue light Sears before there's three there's
two and there's one it's kind of just a matter of choosing which one you like
the most if you wanted to you could go up here to our water brush and we'll
just paint on the water you get a little bit more texture out of that you can see
how to add the shimmer maybe a little bit too much in here so I'm gonna hold
down alt just a race well hold down alt and erase like that good is before and
after again we're up on the top of the mountain and these are our options
here's the desaturated version I like that one right there not on a hike in
California here's three two one so it really depends how much contrast you
like in your images but it's a pretty quick one click and you're done kind of
situation and that's what these are meant to be really quick fast edits so
go with this one and maybe take the white balance down a little because it
looks pretty warm once again same story and we're back that is just a quick
preview of what West Coast is capable of the new preset packed by SIGINT red it's
really excited about this one guys in addition to receiving these presets we
also include our signature edits workflow presets so you receive all
these adjustment layer presets as well as export presets so you are good to go
you've got a total Lightroom workflow situation plus whether you're using
Lightroom classic or Lightroom cc or Lightroom mobile your presets will work
across the board we now support presets with all three of those platforms so you
can use them on the go or on your computer it's up to you all
right pick up that pack today and I will catch it later
you