Presets never look right?!
My presets never seem to work and are mainly unusable. I’ve bought and downloaded a few different packs of presets, loaded them into lightroom and they always just look ridiculous when I apply them to my RAWs. I have about 4 out of hundreds that work and I just stick to them. I have tried using others and massively ajusting the preset to fit but it just seems pointless by the time I’ve fiddled with them that much. I kinda just thought that I had bought the wrong ones… until recently
I uploaded a photo i had taken on my iPhone into lightroom and went to apply my usual preset that works but checked the others and pretty much ALL the presets in the different folders looked good! Some not my style but they all “worked”. This made me think I’ve made a mistake with my uploading or processing with the presets or something in the settings that’s making them not work with my raws.
This is further reinforced because I’ve just opened a couple of my raws in “camera raw” on photoshop rather than Lightroom and …low and behold…the presets all work.
Why aren’t they working in Lightroom 😭😭😭
Tldr: presets don’t work in Lightroom on my raws but in photoshop camera raw they work fine and on iPhone heic files in Lightroom
Edit: appreciate from this post I might sound like I have no idea how to use Lightroom but I’ve been a professional photographer for about 7 years and work mon-fri with a fully booked diary. I don’t need to learn how to use the basic settings of Lightroom 🤣❤️ I’m always learning how it works because no one taught me but I have a decent understanding of how it and presets work
I was just looking for advice on why the two systems are prosessing the same image different 🫶🏻