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Why presets shouldn’t be your first step

Why presets shouldn’t be your first step

From the course: Kids Photography: Retouching with Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

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Why presets shouldn’t be your first step

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at presets. Generally, presets shouldn't be your first go-to option, and here's why. They're a lot of fun to play with, but they really are a rough draft, because for the most part, they won't be a good fit for your specific subject and lighting. So they certainly can be used, but they will require a lot of tweaking. So let's look what happens when we use a preset. All right. Here's a pretty great, easy, nice photo of my daughters. I actually haven't applied any changes to it, and it's pretty good. But if we apply a preset ... I'll grab some of mine right here. It might increase the contrast too much, or it might throw off the white balance a little bit, and it just doesn't quite look as good as it even did before. So presets can be used absolutely, but maybe not for this image. Let's reset that one. All righty. So even if we move onto an image like this that we know is underexposed, it still doesn't quite work. See how it just adds more onto that…

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