Presets

How to Get Your Lightroom Presets onto Your Phone (And Actually Use Them)
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How to Get Your Lightroom Presets onto Your Phone (And Actually Use Them)

I’ll be honest with you: some of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken were shot on my phone. My most-liked Instagram post to this day came from a $200 Android, which started a whole conversation about whether gear actually matters as much as we think. The answer, for the record, is no. But here’s what does matter: consistency in your editing style. And for a long time, that was the one thing I couldn’t carry with me when I left my camera at home.

How to Edit Other People's Photos (And What It Actually Teaches You About Your Own)
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How to Edit Other People's Photos (And What It Actually Teaches You About Your Own)

Every Sunday morning I take a photo walk through my Seattle neighborhood, and I almost always come home with a card full of raw files I’m not entirely sure what to do with. The composition feels right, the light was good, but somewhere between capture and export the image loses the energy I felt when I pressed the shutter. That gap between what you saw and what the edit delivers is the thing I kept hearing photographers describe when I first started teaching, and it’s exactly the problem that editing tutorials built around real submitted photos solve so well.