Lightroom Classic Presets: Killer Looks With Just One Click

Lightroom presets are powerful tools for supercharging your workflow! Join Serge Ramelli as he demonstrates the steps he uses to create a variety of different presets that make photos look great in a single click. In this class you’ll learn how to make your own custom presets, how to apply them to different photos, how to create variations of your favorite presets, how to import presets you’ve downloaded, and much more. Develop presets are the fastest way to creating consistent looks across sets of photos, and once you start using them they can really change your Lightroom life.

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Serge Ramelli

Release Date: 2017-10-25

Lessons

Introduction

Join Serge as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

Duration: 2 mins 17 seconds

Creating Presets

Learn how Serge goes about creating presets.

Duration: 8 mins 37 seconds

Improving with Radial Filter

You can use the Radial filter to improve on your other preset looks.

Duration: 4 mins 57 seconds

Improving with Graduated Filter

The Graduated Filter can also be used to improve on your presets.

Duration: 9 mins 15 seconds

Applying Custom Presets to Other Photos

With a few tweaks, your custom presets can be applied to many other photos.

Duration: 9 mins 49 seconds

Presets for Different Time of Day

Serge goes through the process of creating a new preset for a photo taken at a different time of day.

Duration: 5 mins 52 seconds

B&W Presets

You can also create presets for starting B&W presets.

Duration: 5 mins 51 seconds

Adding Graduated Filter to B&W Preset

Building on his previous preset, Serge adds in a Graduated Filter.

Duration: 2 mins 40 seconds

Making Variations

Once you have a set of basic presets, you can create different versions.

Duration: 8 mins 52 seconds

Hollywood Preset

This is a special type of preset using colors and split toning.

Duration: 7 mins 2 seconds

Day to Night

Paying homage to an old film trick for making day time look like night, Serge shows how to do this in Lightroom.

Duration: 10 mins 12 seconds

Portrait Presets

You can even create presets for portrait retouching.

Duration: 11 mins 41 seconds