Lightroom Profiles

Stop Making Presets. Start Making Profiles: A Practical Guide to Building Your Own LUTs in Photoshop and Lightroom
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Stop Making Presets. Start Making Profiles: A Practical Guide to Building Your Own LUTs in Photoshop and Lightroom

Every preset pack I’ve ever built started the same way: me fiddling with HSL sliders in Lightroom, convincing myself I could get exactly the tone I wanted if I just pushed the Aqua Luminance a little further. Sometimes it worked. Usually it didn’t. The controls in Lightroom are powerful, but they’re also a ceiling, and for years I bumped my head against that ceiling without realizing there was a door in it.

Black & White Done Right: A Lightroom Classic Workflow That Actually Makes You Think in Monochrome
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Black & White Done Right: A Lightroom Classic Workflow That Actually Makes You Think in Monochrome

Most of my black and white conversions used to follow the same lazy pattern: desaturate, push the contrast, call it done. They looked fine. Fine is the enemy of interesting. What I was missing wasn’t effort, it was a smarter starting point, specifically, using Lightroom’s B&W creative profiles as a foundation rather than an afterthought. Watch the full tutorial on YouTube In this Scott Kelby tutorial, he works through a Venice street scene that, by his own admission, isn’t a trophy shot.