While we do our best to ensure that our presets work perfectly with a wide variety of images (and they do!), it's impossible to predetermine the perfect settings for every single photo — especially if the lighting in your photo is exceptionally dark, light, or warm.  

In today's blog post, I will cover three quick and easy preset adjustments you can make to our presets in Lightroom to make your photos more uniquely yours! Let's begin! 

1. How to Adjust Your Photo's Exposure

If the photo is too dark or too light, the exposure slider lets you add and subtract light to and from it. Increasing the exposure slider between +0.5 and +0.35 typically works perfectly, but it all depends on the lighting in the image you're editing!

Tip: It's important to shoot slightly underexposed images because overexposed images are much more difficult to fix in post-processing!

👉🏼If you're using the mobile app, click the "light" tab to see the "exposure" slider.

2. How To Adjust Your Photo's Temperature & Tint

If the lighting in your photo is too warm or too cool, you may need to adjust the "Temperature" and "Tint" sliders. These sliders can play a vital role in the outcome of your photo edit. The temperature slider will add warmth or cool it down, whereas the tint slider will add more pink or green tint. Make subtle adjustments to these sliders until you find the happy medium for your photo.

👉🏼If you're using the mobile app, click the "color" tab, and you'll see the "temp" and "tint" slider.

3. How To Adjust Your Photo's Orange / Skin Tone

Our presets are created for all skin tones. If the presets slightly alter your skin tone, you'll want to adjust the orange bar. The orange bar is where skin tones fall. We like to fine-tune skin tones for every image. The presets work ideally, or the skin is slightly too dark, light, or orange. If adjustments need to be made to the skin tone, slightly adjust the orange luminance and saturation sliders!

Orange Luminance: The lower (-) the orange luminance, the darker and more tan the skin will look. The higher (+) the orange luminance, the lighter and brighter the skin will look.

Orange Saturation: If the skin tone is too orange, you should lower the orange saturation. Be careful with the orange saturation slider! If you slide too low, you'll lose all skin tone; if you slide too high, the skin will look too orange!

👉🏼 ps. To get to the orange bars on the free Lightroom mobile app, you'll click the Color tab, which is located in the bottom menu where you see the crop, light, preset, etc, tabs. Once you click color, you will click the Color Wheel Icon next to Mix. From there, you'll click the Orange Circle.

That's all for now. I hope this helps! If you ever have any questions or need help with adjustments, please feel free to get in touch! We love what we do, are incredibly responsive, and take great care of our customers! We want you to be satisfied with the outcome!!

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