- In this episode, I'm going to give you
some amazing Safari Presets.
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Bon Jour, madames and monsieurs.
My name is Serge Ramelli. I am a French photographer
from the amazing city of Paris, France.
But right now I'm in Africa.
And I'm going to give you some pre-sets
that you can use in Lightroom Classic,
Lightroom CC, and Photoshop.
These are Safari Presets.
You can download the preset below this video.
I'm going to show you how to install them.
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Alright guys, so let me show you how the
Safari Preset actually works.
Alright guys, so I wanna give you some
Safari Preset that I've created.
I'm right now in South Africa, Johannesburg
and I did a little Safari in the Kruger Park.
Close to the Kruger Park, beautiful area.
And I've always dreamed all my life to do this
and I had an opportunity and I did it.
I want to show you some of my favorite photos
and well the presets I've been using to create it.
So I created a whole bunch of presets
they are basically very dramatic
and they are either warm or they're cold,
but they work very well, you know for some
landscapes and, you know, that type of photography.
So for example on this photo,
which are elephants walking away from me
after we fed them, you can go here,
I'll show you later on how to install them.
So you have a Safari group, but for example,
I can go here to Safari Warm Dramatic which is
a very dramatic and warm filter
I think works well for Africa,
you know because Africa is warm plus its summer here.
You can go lighter, Safari Warm Dramatic Light.
It's less lighter, or you can go
for Safari Warm Dramatic Strong,
or Safari Warm Simple,
which has less contrast less vignette effect.
Or you can the opposite, you can go
Safari Vignette Cold Strong,
Lighter, Cold Strong Medium.
So on this one I think I'm going to use
the Safari Warm Dramatic.
And again, this is just the beginning.
This is just, don't...
You know, the preset is going to give you a look,
it's going to do a lot of things for you.
But for example here, I would like the
elephants to be little brighter,
so I can always make a little circle.
I have to inverse the circle, okay.
So I clicked here on the circle
and then in this circle I can just
add a bit of exposure, not so much.
Usually I try to not go over 0.5.
0.5 is a good value,
because it's going to make it brighter,
but it's not going to be in-your-face brighter.
So let me show you the before
and after that little circle.
Before.
After, see I just made you know,
and on this one maybe I would
even crop it and go 16x9,
'cause the gallery I work with wants 16x9
and it makes the elephants slightly closer.
I think I like that.
Okay, the next one was an elephant
who was about to drink
and so on this one, I'm going to go warm, also.
Yeah, Warm Dramatic Light so maybe Dramatic Strong.
I think I'm going to go Dramatic Strong on this one.
And again I can take a little brush
and I like use it at 2.0 so I like to overdo it first,
you know I go like around 1
and then I make sure my flow and density is in the 70s
and I can just, you know,
brush, make this elephant a little more interesting.
So you look for parts which are kind of bright
and you make them a little tiny brighter.
And that's just gonna give something, it's gonna,
I'm overdoing it right now so you
can see it well on the video.
Then I'm usually going back, you know,
at 0.5 or something.
Look how sharp this photo is.
Shot with the Sony A7r iii.
See, it's a little too much.
But if you go back under the 0.5 mark you are good,
and it just makes a subtle, more interesting elephant.
Okay, before.
After.
You know, slightly large, and you know,
(hums) I like it.
Okay, the next one is, well the elephant drinking.
Let's try...
Let's try this one, Safari Animal Vignette Cold Strong.
Just for the fun of it.
You know, make it very strong.
And this one I think is too bright,
so I can lower the overall photo.
I can make a circle on his face.
Oh, I already have circles.
Okay, some of my presets have circles.
So you can just put them on something
which is interesting.
In this case, the elephant.
So you always have to make sure when you
use one of the presets to do that.
It's a complete thing, and I can go
oh no, you know what? I want to go back
to very warm dramatic.
Okay, it looks good with the strong one.
Boom. Same idea.
And on this one, I don't think it's got circles.
Yeah, it's got one circle.
So this circle, I can put it here and make it smaller
and put it over the elephant, just so that he stands out,
'cause he's the star of the photo.
Preset is just fun.
Download them and try them.
Now, I got really lucky.
We got a lion that was a few feet away sleeping,
but then it started walking toward us.
So that's the photo of the lion sleeping far.
I think on this one I went with something more blue.
Let's see here.
Cold Strong, Lighter.
The version of Lightroom that I'm using, by the way,
and it's important that it's over 7.4,
because one of the release, I forgot when it was,
I guess it was around seven is that
when you go through the different presets you can see them,
you can see them in the preview.
Before, you could only see them in
that small screen here.
I think I want to go blue on this one.
I think I want to go, yeah, Safari,
but this one I really want to zoom in more.
I know I've got lots of pixels,
So you know what? I'm going to go for it.
I'm going to re-crop the photo
and play with the Rule of Thirds
so that he's not centered.
And voila! My friend, the lion, sleeping.
So that was the lion, let me reset this,
that's the lion coming toward us.
Apparently, it's very unusual that they come so,
he was literally a meter away from me.
I kinda got scared, to be honest,
because we had all this safety briefing
that they are very dangerous and you shouldn't
talk to them and blah blah blah.
On this one, the other one I went warm,
on this one I used Safari Warm Dramatic Light.
Alright, so that's the preset.
I think they are pretty, some of the best presets I've done.
To install preset, and the good thing is that
the way I'm going to show it to you,
it can work in Lightroom CC, it can work
in Lightroom Classic, it can work in Photoshop.
It works everywhere.
So again, make sure that you have
Lightroom seven and above,
because the way presets are begin handled
by Adobe completely change around Lightroom seven.
Before, it used to be the, it was called
.lrtemplate files, now it's XMP files.
Okay, so the way you install, see I have a folder
called Safari with the 10 presets there.
So you just go here, import preset.
I'm going to give you a folder called Safari,
and you will see there is all the presets there in XMP.
All you have to do is click on the folder,
select all of them with shift, by clicking the
first one and the last one, and then click on import.
I don't do it, because I've already done it,
and it's going to be there.
Now, if you want to use them on your phone.
You're taking photos on your phone
and you want to use presets, you can,
but you have to install them through Lightroom CC.
So Lightroom CC all you have to do to go to preset is,
first, well, you click here on the libraries.
You click on this little icon here which goes to preset.
You click on the word preset, here,
and then you've got three dots.
You take the three dots and you click on import preset.
Same idea, you select the first one,
you select the last one, and you click on import,
and it's gonna import them.
I've already done it and you can
see they are here, and I can play around.
Well, this is a vignette photo,
but look, it looks pretty cool.
It looks pretty cool what this preset can do.
So it's there.
Now, if you are in Photoshop,
let's say you are not a Lightroom user.
Well, if you're not a Lightroom user, it's a little harder.
If you have Lightroom on your computer
what I really advise you is to go to Lightroom Classic,
even if it's just to install preset.
Make sure you have Lightroom seven and above,
and you use this technique of importing preset,
because if you do, it is going to
appear automatically in Photoshop.
Now, Photoshop Camera Raw and Lightroom
share with this new XMP files.
But, again, I'm using Camera Raw 11
and I'm using Lightroom seven and above.
So make sure you have that.
In case you don't.
You see, here I am in Camera Raw.
I've got this photo and it's got the preset there.
And I can even go over and it does it.
Now, if for some reason you don't have Lightroom,
you don't want to install Lightroom,
you only want to use Photoshop,
and you just don't want to hear about Lightroom,
well, my friend, then you have to install them one by one.
You click here, and you click on Load Settings,
and that's going to open file,
and then you can,
but on this one, you can only select one by one.
Click Load.
So you have to select them one by,
and there's only 10.
So that's for people who hate Lightroom
and only use Photoshop.
Also the fact that you've put them,
I forgot to say that,
but when you put them in Lightroom CC
they will be automatically put on your mobile.
So that's kinda cool.
They will be there because you have
import them in Lightroom CC,
because Lightroom CC works with Lightroom Mobile
on an iPad, on an iPhone.
So that's how you can get all my preset.
The link is below the video.
It's free. It's for you.
I really love these presets.
I'm very happy with the photos
that I go from the Safari.
I hope you can enjoy them.
Tweak them around.
It's just a starting point. Have fun.
The link is below the video to download the presets.
Alright, guys. I hope you like this deal.
Don't forget to download the presets and install them.
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Madames et monsieurs.
I will see you in another video.