How I Changed My View of Lightroom Presets with a New Workflow
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- 17 Oct 2022
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Lightroom presets are all around us. You might love them as a 1-click solution to your batch editing needs or you might think that they are useless and that all the photos for which one was used look the same. Still, the truth is they are here to stay and maybe we should start thinking of how to integrate them into our professional workflows as more than crutches for your next Instagram post.
Why Are So Many Presets Just Bad?
A preset is fundamentally just a way to store settings and copy them from one photo to another. It’s a tool. Just as a hammer can build a house or smash a window, I do feel like at least some imaginary windows have been smashed after purchasing low-quality presets from other photographers online that promised a certain look and brought just a copy of their settings from their viral image.
These types of presets can serve an educational purpose when provided along with their original file and perhaps a video detailing why the photographer processed the image a certain way, but as standalone presets they hold little to no value because you are not going to shoot the same image in the same light with the same camera. Read More...
