Good morning everyone. Thank you all for the great advice on my new camera.  Would any of you be able to direct me to some good editing presets that I could use with Photoshop? 


Thanks again

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Invest in training before presets. 

Business from Southern Pines, NC
Commented on Apr 24th, 2021

Hello Jennicha, I use two editing tools for preparing my photography for publishing. Photoshop is critical for detailed editing but it is very time-consuming to learn and use. An excellent and new tool on the market is Luminar AI by Skylum. It provides many templates and styles that allow rapid editing where you do not need to get caught in the detail. Check it out.

I would recommend starting off with Lightroom as it is a lot easier to get started in photo editing there than in Photoshop.

Business from Honolulu, HI
Commented on Apr 24th, 2021

I agree with Lightroom.  I do a three phase edit.  The major adjustments in Lightroom,  then i go to photoshop for details and a color adjustment or skin retouching if its a portrait, and finally, back to Lightroom for a quick contrast rebalance.  But the meat of the edit is the first pass in Lightroom.  

Lightroom is the best, specially for organizing your photos. Lightroom has the keyword that makes finding your photos super easy.

Has different filters for further editing,. I use PS for artistic photos, all else I use Lightroom

I would say 95% of my edit time is in Camera Raw or Lightroom - white balance and  color matching the ColorChecker Passport profiles, applying batch adjustments, some dodge/burn touchups, and watermarks.  3% in Photoshop, 2% PortraitPro.  And, remembering ALL images start as RAW.  Slowly learn Photoshop layers.  Even with Photoshop presets, need to understand layers so you can back things out. Photoshop presets on people (and Portrait Pro) can easily leave you perfect complexions that look like an unrealistic porcelain doll unless you understand what they are doing in the background.


Also, imagine you are shooting film.  Starting with a get it right in camera attitude really lowers your post time.  I have seen many that just shoot and pray, thinking they can "fix it" in post.  Imagine fixing 200-500 wedding images in post.  Batching in Lightroom or even Camera RAW is your friend for weddings and big events.

Training.... presets are best when you have a full understanding is what it is actually doing.  Learning to use layers and tools is a huge advantage to your business.

I highly agree that learning Lightroom is  very important, and that most of your work will be done there, with final edits in Photoshop. There are lots of “looks” in Lightroom that you can try out. 

Business from Lawton, OK
Commented on Apr 25th, 2021

I agree with the others comments that Lightroom is a better more immediate editing experience than Photoshop (having used both for a long time and LR since v1). 

I find Lightroom a lot more intuitive to see the results of what I'm doing whereas Photoshop requires a different mindset. I do still use Photoshop for composites or more complex edits but can do almost all of my general edits in LR. 

I would also second the recommendation for Luminar if you are just looking to apply filters without much knowledge of how they work behind the scenes. You can quickly get a certain look in a few clicks. But I personally like the file organization in Lightroom to be better than Luminar and have not replaced LR with Luminar for that reason.

Lightroom also has a lot of click and set filter options but I think Luminar does it better out of the box. 

Lightroom and Photoshop are the best and they have tutorials you can use. There are also many tutorials on youtube.com