The goal, of course, is to minimize the amount of editing you have to do to the majority of your images. Of course, YOU should tailor the adjustments to your own personal style! Usually however we advise that going too much further than subtle editing should be saved as a separate preset that you use part of the time, but not necessarily 100% of the time. Note that we leave alone settings like Saturation and Contrast, because for the most part those adjustments are too strong for them to be applied to every single image. To enhance that subtle punch a little further, next we’ll boost both the Clarity and Vibrance to +15. The image gets a little “punch” to it, without blowing out any highlights or clipping any shadows. This is why we bring down the highlights to -20 yet push the Whites up to +10, and the same with the Shadows and Blacks.

The idea here is that you want to keep detail in any bright highlights or deep shadows, but do it without making the image look flat overall. Open the Basic Adjustments panel in the Develop Module and apply the following settings:

Secondly we also want to apply default settings such as a personal blend of sharpening, lens corrections, or other calibration-related things.įirst, let’s tackle the Basic Adjustments. The goal for a standard preset is twofold: First, to simply help every image look a little better overall, of course.

Well, in an effort to fix this problem and make our images automatically look a little more crisp and vibrant when we first bring them into Lightroom, we’re going to create a “Standard Import” preset.įor this tutorial we will use the following image as our example: Often photographers will lament how beautiful their colors looked on the back of their camera. In this article, we are going to talk about creating a develop preset that you would like to apply to all of your images when they are first imported into Lightroom.Īlthough Adobe’s RAW image processing is extremely powerful, one common complaint is that your images may look flat and colorless at first.

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Import presets on lightroom