hey guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me today today we are going to
basically speed up your life in
lightroom
so what we're going to do today is we're going to set up some lightroom presets for import
which can help to speed up your workflow and basically just add a little bit of continuity
to what you do because i personally find it hard to remember to do certain things every single
time so i find this preset setup really useful if you haven't already please do go ahead and press
the subscribe button and hit the bell icon and when you have done that let's go ahead and start
so to basically do this little trick you do need to have a lightroom classic open if you don't know
what lightroom classic looks like it looks like this this is lightroom classic okay and with a
lightroom classic all set up and ready then the next step to do is to open it up and hopefully
you will have imported something into lightroom before right now if you have done that then this
should work absolutely fine if not don't worry just run a picture in and then come back here
so with that all set up in lightroom go ahead up to the top menu and you want to open preferences
so when you've opened preferences on a windows computer it looks pretty much exactly the same so
don't worry along the top there are some options here and we want to go ahead and go into presets
okay so within the presets section you get loads of different options down here we're going to
specifically focus on the raw default section so basically what we're doing is we're saying hey
lightroom where do i bring in a raw file i want you to do these things as standard which is it
just basically makes life quicker and easier so in the section where it says master that does
adobe default which to be fair is a color profile i don't particularly like it it adds a little bit
too much of everything for me and therefore for me i head into this little drop down i go into preset
go across and down you can set up presets to be imported that's fine but for me i go into defaults
and then i choose adobe portrait plus lens so what that does when that's set up basically is it fixes
any lens distortion it fixes lens vignetting and it applies adobe portrait as the working profile
kind of thing to the images so with that set up there you can go ahead and choose one of the other
options absolutely fine i do not mind you can do whatever you want to and you can also if you want
to override the master settings for specific cameras and select if you want to the camera
and then specifically set up a default but for me it's just not needed so we can go for a master
so with that done we then can close it on a windows you might need to click save
i cannot quite remember and then let's see if this works so i did some little photographs today
of bryt which were super fun to do so basically i just did some little bits in studio with dan
because we were like yeah why not what should we do today so with that done we want to head up to
the top here um and say to lightroom this is where we want to save our images when they're imported
so the moment they're on the sd card i'm going to move them into my folder structure
so uh let's go ahead and do that so actually today's date is the 4th of december it's the
day after i got married 20 20 12 04 and this is bryt studio on labelia i can't really remember
how to spell that but it's kind of something like that but i feel it's different but never mind
so we'll go for raw as another folder and click choose so with that set we
can go ahead and import bearing in mind this is all of my other settings here
okay so i'm not applying any develop settings or anything like that and i'm going to click import
so with all of those images imported there into lightroom and we're then going to just double
check that our little preset has been applied so we can check the profile by going into basic
and yep it says adobe portrait um adobe default by the way i think is adobe standard and it just adds
a little bit more contrast great for in studio pictures but less so for outdoor in my personal
opinion and then the lens correction as well so there's been an enable profile correction selected
so that is already applied when i come into lightroom so those two things just tend to
take it off of my to-do list and they are on all of the images so we don't have to sync the
settings so the studio shoot quite straightforward i will go ahead and white balance out
to that particular thing i usually will lift up the shadows a little bit bring down the highlights
increase the overall exposure and add a little bit of texture and a little bit of clarity and then
with that done we then can go ahead and select all and sync all of our settings onto all of
our images so with that done then i'm in a stage where i can just go ahead and work through super
straightforward it's super simple that's wonky isn't it guys let's go and just sort that out
because can't i can't live with that that makes me feel better now oh my goodness she's just so cute
she is just so freaking cute um yeah before i get distracted any further with the adorable
puppy that is bright at nine weeks old i will leave you guys to it so that's
it for today's video i hope that this little trick has been helpful i know it's only little
but genuinely anything that saves time is a win in my opinion so uh do with it as you wish
i'll bring you more tips soon and if you haven't already please do press the subscribe button
because you know i just really appreciate it i will see you all again super super soon