How to Use Lightroom Presets in Photoshop
Good day Cafe crew.
It's Colin Smith here from PhotoshopCAFE and this week I'm going to show you how to do
something super useful.
I'm going to show you how to take your Lightroom Presets and be able to use them inside of
Photoshop.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start with an image here that I shot recently of
Lina and I'm just going to apply an effect.
So let's just go to a split tone and we'll create some kind of a vintagey effect to it
pretty quickly.
So the way to do that is we're just going to pull up our saturation and our highlights.
We can see our colors.
Let's go to a nice kind of golden color that looks good and let's push up our saturation
in the shadows, maybe go for a blue.
Oh, that's kind of nice, so bluey green.
And now we just play around with the saturation to decide how much of that shadow do we want
to put in and how much of that highlight effect do we want, and then we can push the balance
to push it more bias towards the blue greens or more towards the golden colors.
Let's grab that one there.
I kind of like that.
It's pretty neat so we're going to set it as a preset and we're just going to go over
to the preset panel here and just click plus and we'll call this one-- let's call it glamtage.
Okay, there we go.
I just made that up so it's glamorous vintage so we'll call it glamtage and then we're just
going to create it.
So what we've done is we've just basically created a preset on top of this.
So to bring it into Photoshop, what we're going to do is we're going to right-click
and we're going to choose Edit In, but don't edit in Photoshop.
Go down to Open as a Smart Object.
Now what it's going to do is it's going to launch Photoshop and it's going to bring that
in as a smart object.
Now that's important because that keeps all of our adjustments from Lightroom in there.
So if we double click, it will open up Camera Raw and then once we're in Camera Raw, we
can go down to our Presets right there.
You see those ones?
And then we're going to click on the plus and it's going to snatch all the settings,
and we'll just call it glamtage once again and we'll click OK and we're done.
So what it's done is it has actually taken all those settings that we had in Lightroom
and has applied them here inside of Photoshop.
So let me just close this and let's apply it to a photograph.
So let's open a photo right here.
So there's a photo and let's see what we can do.
All we need to do now to apply these presets is go to the Filter.
We're going to go into Camera Raw, and then, under Camera Raw we can jump over here back
to the Presets panel and look at this.
There's our glamtage, apply it, boom; we get those settings right there and, of course,
you know we've got other ones that we could have applied.
There's a cool tone one that I did earlier on, you know, there's a little DGI one and
different things like that.
Now if you get it a little hot, you just go over here and you can just pull down your
exposure because no two photographs are the same so you may need to tweak them a little
bit, maybe just click okay and you can apply those in one click.
As you can see there, all those presets can easily be copied here into Photoshop.
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a discussion going in the Comments.
Do you like Photoshop?
Do you like Lightroom?
Do you use one or the other?
Do you use both?
Do you have presets you make your own?
What do you think of presets?
I love them because you can, in one click, dramatically change a photograph or a whole
bunch of photographs without spending a lot of time.
So anyway, guys, until next week, I'll see you at the Cafe.