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it is Ryan and were back again with
another video this time it is the first
tutorial Tuesday if you guys didn't see
my latest video which was actually
posted early this morning I announced my
brand new video schedule and coming to
you right on schedule is tutorial
Tuesday be very first this is the start
of something great i'm excited alright
let's dive into this as you can tell by
the title of the video right down there
what we are talking about today is
editing your photos with presets
specifically in Adobe Lightroom so so
many comments so many DM's, snapchats
Instagram DM's you name it pretty much
anywhere and everywhere people are
asking me how I'm editing my photo what
programs i'm using and of course the
answer to that is i'm primarily using
adobe lightroom i do use photoshop a bit
but besides the point today i'm going to
take you guys through the simple
workflow that i use for editing the
majority of my photos i've created a
brand new pack for you guys down in the
description go check it out six of my
all-new freshly developed presets super
excited actually start using these i
spent a ton of time trying these on tons
and tons of different photos and just
like really making them work for so many
different scenarios so these are
probably some of my best presets I've
made to date that's why I'm actually so
excited to make them available for you
guys but without further ado let's jump
into this let's get a screen recording
going here okay there's the first time
I've actually done a tutorial on mac so
this is different right on my desktop I
have my preset pack I've already
downloaded and extracted just chillin
there waiting to be used we'll go ahead
and open up Adobe Lightroom get that
going also I'm pretty sure that the
screen recording is going to be pretty
tolling on my system here and plus I'm
running on a not super powerful macbook
so i'm guessing the fan is going to get
three noisy here in just a little bit
alright so we're in adobe lightroom here
and i have six example photos already
selected I'm going to take you through
the process of utilizing these presets
and editing a few photos here kind of
show you the workflow and how it all
blends together first things first let's
go ahead and import those presets over
on the left hand side here in the
presets panel you're going to right
click and kind of just a blank gray area
click new folder we're going to name this
whatever you want I've actually already
done this I don't really need to do it
and on that new folder that you just
created right click again and hit import
now from there you're going to navigate
to where you downloaded the presets and
I'm already in the folder here you can
actually do a command a or just dragging
to select all of them and click import
now when you open up that folder they're
all going to be there mine all have a
two after them because in the folder
right above this one I've already done
this so I'm actually just going to go
ahead and delete this all right so let's
open up that folder and here they are
six awesome presets that I've just
freshly developed we have blue steel
clean film epic BW which stands for epic
black and white faded film sunshine
warmth and vibrant film now you'll
notice multiple of these have some in
the name all of them are kind of a a
film look kind of dramatic contrast e
film if you guys are following me on
instagram you'll know that that's kind
of my personal flavor that i like to add
on top of my photos kind of a dramatic
film look usually a good amount of
contrast and some grain these aren't too
intense not quite as intense as I would
use in some of my own personal stuff but
definitely it's going to give you guys a
nice film kind of vintage feel here to
your work now presets like these aren't
always exactly the kind of look that I'm
going to be delivering to clients but
again this is kind of my own personal
taste so the photo that you're looking
at right here is actually utilizing the
clean film preset so let's show you guys
a full before and after the photos so
here is before dark flat boring need a
boost of exposure need to honestly a
boost of everything and here's what we
get after here is another example photo
this is the before I apply the blue
steel preset on top of this guy this
preset kind of drops down the shadows in
the blacks and pumps up the highlights
and then adds kind of a cool iron blue
steel pipe tone to the image really just
giving it the sort of deep punchy feel
really really like this one another
example photo here of these goats this
is when I was out
in Wyoming doing kind of a trip with
some of my photographer friends I
applied the faded film preset over the
top of this guy this one quite clearly
as the name state is sort of a faded
fell look so you're going to get some
nice soft highlights and mid-tones rich
saturation but at the same time the on
the curves the blacks are going to be
kind of flattened out so it's going to
give you that sort of fade look that's
really really popular that's really
really popular on Instagram right now
right so this next one I'm going to
apply the preset epic black and white
quick disclaimer I'm a really big fan of
like super dramatic super contrast be
black and white now some people kind of
like the more classic kind of neutral
black-and-white photos I'm personally
kind of like it towards the opposite end
of that spectrum where it's like I like
the most aggressive punchy like just
dramatic black and white photos so this
preset is going to give you pretty much
exactly that super dramatic black and
white you guys are going to love this
one here is the before of kind of a nice
backlit portrait and then I applied the
sunshine warmth preset to this guy
really dramatic difference now obviously
there's a little bit of tweaking with
exposure and everything that kind of you
know brought this photo to life but the
preset really carries all the color you
get the point last but not least is
actually my favorite preset of the
entire bunch because i actually have
used this one and kind of manipulated it
over a period of time now this one is
called vibrant film here's before photo
again kind of a backlit sunny portrait
boom okay so let's take some of these
photos and completely reset all the
settings and take you from start to
finish with these pre-sales command
shift our removes all of our settings
here even the crop everything so the way
I've designed these presets is to pretty
much take care of everything except for
exposure contrast and crop for you guys
keep in mind these presets were also
designed to be utilized with raw photos
so if you're shooting on you know a
phone or a camera in jpg mode you may
have slightly different results with how
the photos handle these colors that are
going to be you know applied over the
top with a preset but if you can shoot
and wrong and you'll get the best
results possible here to start off with
this photo I'm going to go ahead and
take
and mess with the exposure here this
definitely needs to come up quite a bit
right around there also just a touch of
contrast that's about right I'm also
going to adjust the crop I want his head
kind of a little bit closer to this top
third of the frame so I'm just going to
pull this in terrific it's looking
pretty good so like I said all you
really need to do is just adjust the
crop exposure contrast and then you can
pretty much just apply the preset from
there so I originally had any example
the clean film preset applied but let's
try something different let's try the
vibrant film simple as that I mean
seriously like I said all you really
need to do is mess with exposure in
contrast and you can pretty much drop
these presets on anywhere so like I said
with my wet pack with my color grading
tutorial which link will be down in the
description go check that out if you
haven't seen it already play around with
every one of these use it on tons of
different photos try every single one
and just see how they work in what they
do better in certain scenarios different
lighting situations in terms of you know
if it's a backlit portrait or if it's a
dramatic landscape with the sunset all
of them are going to handle these
presets just a little bit differently so
again experimentation is kind of
necessary the great thing is with these
presets we can just as easily change it
to a different one by just clicking we
can try faded some looks amazing
honestly like I'm I'm really happy with
these precepts and how they came out we
can try blue steel I'll go and try a
different example photo this shot right
here is of my buddy Chris out in a
forest near the Oregon coast I'm gonna
go and reset all the settings here
command shift are once again take it
back to the original can go ahead and
tweet the exposure and contrast a little
bit here bring up the exposure just a
tad a little bit of contrast originally
I had blue steel on this photo so let's
try how about sunshine warmth this
doesn't look quite as ideal as I like it
too again you know each of these are
kind of going to need their own little
bit
manipulations here and there with some
of the basic correction in order to get
to look ideal but I can very simply kind
of tweak it here by bringing up our
white balance kind of warming things up
playing with our highlights a little bit
we can kind of bring you guys down just
a tad playing with our shadows and now I
think we're looking a lot better
something a lot closer to what I
anticipated with this preset but that's
it guys that is how brutally simple it
is to utilize these presets and just
immediately bump up your results and
step up that game to get that really
awesome sort of vintage film look I'm
really hoping that you guys enjoy these
leave a comment down below if you decide
to pick them up and I'd love to see what
you guys create with them that being
said I'm gonna go to end the video here
guys thank you so much for watching the
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