What are presets and how to use them?

Many people who follow bloggers on Instagram may wonder: how do they keep a profile in one color? In fact, the answer is simple. In today's post, we will look at the secrets of bloggers, and open all the cards for people who have long dreamed of keeping their profile in one color (a certain shade of this color). So, there is one wonderful word that helps bloggers in editing their photos. This word is preset. At this stage, you can stop reading the post and start googling this word, or you can read to the end and see the results of presets in action.

Presets are pre-configured effects that are applied to photos. Presets greatly simplify photo processing, and you will be delighted with working with them. With their help, you can change the colors and shades of a photo in just a few clicks of the mouse. In addition, using presets, you can apply a certain style to several photos.

Most often, presets are used in Adobe Lightroom, but you can also find them for Adobe Photoshop or other graphic editors. Just type in Google: “Lightroom preset”, “Photoshop preset”, “VSCO preset”, etc. Presets are free and paid. Paid presets can cost from 15-20 UAH to 200-400 UAH. It all depends on their “functionality”, the complexity of processing and the number of filters that can be applied to the photo.

Today, everyone uses smartphones and is looking for programs for editing photos directly on it. I advise you to download the VSCO and Lightroom applications. Both applications are compatible with both Android and iOS. Adjusting contrast, shadows, temperature, white balance, etc. is done using special sliders. However, no matter how hard you try to process your photos on Android, their quality will significantly deteriorate when added to Instagram. Unfortunately, this is observed on almost all versions of Android. On iOS, there are no problems with the quality of photos after uploading to the profile. Why is this? - you thought. It's all about the algorithms for processing photos, resizing and smoothing them. Algorithms written for iOS cope with these functions much better than Android (by the time you read the article, problems with adding photos from Android could have already been fixed).

I think there is no point in describing the details about presets, because there is a lot of information on Google. Let's better consider how they can help change your photos. Below are photos before and after processing. Move the slider left/right to see the result of applying presets.

If you have any questions, ask in the comments. I will be happy to answer them.

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