How to Edit Beautiful Instagram Photos With Lightroom Presets
If you’re looking to create a beautiful Instagram Feed, editing your Pictures with Lightroom is one of the best steps you can take to improve your instagram. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, Lightroom is a great tool to use if you want to create that flawless and cohesive instagram feed you see at other influencers. With Lightroom Presets it is easy to create a stunning instagram with only using your phone. Learn how to create a beautiful instagram feed with Lightroom Presets while editing in the free Lightroom CC app for Iphone and Android.
Why You Should Be Editing With Lightroom for Your Instagram
There’s no denying that the quality of photography we see on Instagram today is incredibile high. The best way to claim your place on the gram these days is by having a strong feed that stands out from the crowd! First step is to create a cohesive feed that looks clean and professional. If you’re looking to find or create a unique style, or theme for your feed, using presets that you like will really help in creating that cohesive Instagram look.
What are Lightroom Presets?
Lightroom presets are one-click photo editing tools that can speed up your workflow and give your Instagram photos a professional look. Lightroom “presets” are like photo filters. The difference between Lightroom filters and other filters from Instagram and other apps is that with Lightroom Presets you have more control over them and you can adjust pretty much every detail in your images, such as exposure, shadows, whites, colors, vibrance, sharpness and more. Lightroom presets can completely change the look of your photos and can give a specific style to your photos with just one click.
Choosing Your Preset – Buy Lightroom Presets
Many Lightroom presets are offered in “packs” or collections, so you can choose from a selection of filters for each of your photos while still maintaining a cohesive look on your Instagram feed. For example: there are lots of Lightroom Presets to choose from in our shop HERE.
Tip: Stay with one preset, and change sometimes the basic settings to get the best results. So when it comes to selecting your presets, try to be consistent with the preset you use for all your Instagram images. If you start swapping and changing presets with different tones or from different creators, you’re going to struggle to get that cohesive look.
Install Lightroom Presets to your phone
On our ‘How to’-page you can find short YouTube Videos that explain all the steps on how to download and install our Lightroom Presets for mobile and desktop. If you want to use the presets on your mobile phone, make sure you first download the free Lightroom app.
For Android: Click here to download the app
For iPhone: Click here to download the app
Apply Presets in your Lightroom app
After importing/installing the Lightroom Presets in your app you can find the Presets under the Preset Panel in the Develop Mode. Make sure you choose the User Preset tab, here you can find all the Presets you installed before. After choosing the perfect preset you can apply this one by tapping on the check mark in the left corner.
Editing with Lightroom – Mobile
Once you have applied your Lightroom preset to your image, you can use the editing tools in the Develop mode to adjust all the elements in your photo. You can use the scroll bar at the bottom of your screen to find all you editing tools like Exposure, Contrast, and Highlights. Here are a few things you can play around with if you want to get the best results from your preset:
Exposure: This controls the brightness of your photo. If you photo is too bright or over-exposed, move the slider to the left to make it darker. When you slide to the right you make your image brighter.
Contrast: This will help you define the contrast between the light and dark colors in your image. For example: If you want a stronger, more dramatic look to your image, move the slider right.
Highlights: This is used to control the light parts of your image, like a white background, or a clear sky and clouds. Slight to right to brighten up these whites or to the left to make them darker.
Shadows: This is Similar to Highlights, this slider controls the darker parts of your images. Slide right to make it brighter or left to darken.
Tip: While using Lightroom Presets to create a consistent feed, you need to make not too much adjustments to keep the image fits others in your feed. We recommend to not play with the Temperature, White balance, Tint and color mix sliders.
Planning Your Instagram Feed With an Grid app.
One of the biggest benefits of using Lightroom presets is that you’re able to maintain a cohesive look across all your images. One of the easiest ways to help you create a this cohesive and consistent instagram feed is to use a grid app.
Whit a grid app you be able to preview what your images will look like side by side, and on top and below of one another. You can download a grid app like UNUM for mobile and desktop for free. This app is a great way to plan out your feed in a few minutes. One of the best features: you can curate the layout by shifting the images to the order you like. HERE you will find the App.
Want to learn more about Lightroom Presets and editing with Lightroom? view here our blog.
