How to Edit ANY Photo with the KJ Preset Process

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[natashahernandez]

Thank you so much for showing these presets on images that are not perfect out of camera. It is so relatable and appreciated

[SouthernSister]

I am the sucker who has bought and downloaded so many presets to help me find my style. Your process really helped with understanding that there must be that foundation of the editing process first. Usually my first go to is the do the white balance, then correcting the colors...usually oranges, even after I have used the "premium presets". You helped me so much with just this short clip. Can't wait to apply your teachings to my next set of photos. Thanks Sensei!

[jumeejum]

make more contents like this one Katelyn.. very helpful and interesting, any walk through start from BTS and how you edit those photos looks great!

[jamesstovall]

Do you shoot all of your images to almost perfect exposure so these presets work or do you shoot underexposed a little?

[viciwo]

Thanks for this great tutorial on the use of the preset. Definitely ordering!

[mrskelseydw]

KAYELYN THIS IS INCREDIBLE AND I NEED IT IN MY LIFE. I have never said that about any "preset" or anything I see online! But I am absolutely SOLD. Next session is covering this investment.

[kelb]

Non-preset related, but your course and videos are all amazing. I can't wait to apply everything I learned year.

[bipspadhiar]

Amazing, thank you for demonstrating how to use the presets. Have now purchased and playing around with them, SO exciting!!!

[kaytlyndempster]

I have these and LOVE THEM, I do have a question though, once you find a tone profile you like for an image do you keep to that tone profile for the entire gallery or do you personally use different tone profiles depending on the image in the same gallery?

[malenky]

Very interesting approach. The point you make at 13:13 about not being able to save a preset to only affect one of the sliders in the HSL/Color tab, I think I have a workaround.

Say you want to have a preset that simply desaturates greens to -45, go to a fully reset image and set the green saturation to -45, then create a new preset from that, checking only the 'color adjustments' box. Then right click that profile and click 'show in explorer' for windows (I presume show in finder for mac). There you will have your preset as an XML file, which can be opened in any text editor. You will see lines that say something like All of them will be '=0' except for your -45 to greens, which will say Simple delete all the lines that have something ="0" and save the XML file and close it.

Now you can test it in Lightroom, for example boost your yellows to 100 saturation and then apply your green desaturation preset. If you did it correctly, your yellow saturation boost will remain while your greens get desaturated by 45.

[irinakavelina]

Oh goodness, thank you so much for showing your editing! I want these!

[stopthink]

I am in awe about how good a salesperson you are. Educator, yes but salesperson...wow.

[IamVictorPerez]

Just the intro of your preset pack has me sold

I’ve done photography and film for over 10 (more filming) years and just recently decided to start doing it for myself and I’m just getting back into editing and building my own style

Often I have found myself shooting from the hip with my editing and developing or buying presets

Thanks 🙏

[charlenereilly]

Thank you for sharing! Just a quick question to clarify, in step one, that will take care of "opening up the image"? So basically if I take my raw image, I wouldn't need to manually create that "backwards C"?

[devacollins]

I love the presets and I love you! You are amazing!!! I thought I was losing my mind though, because I could faintly hear a baby crying, then I thought I could hear your little girl, lol. It sounded like Michael was outnumbered, :()

[baileyrapaport]

Hi! How do you use more than one of these presets at a time? I wanted to use 2 of them in a certain section and it doesn’t seem to be working for me!

[kuuleiakeo]

Hii Katelyn, may I ask what setting or lens you are using for your videos? It looks amazing!!

[angelalowe]

Wow that’s an amazing help to beginners too

[bribphotography]

you mentioned that you have your exposure slider set up with the + and - keys ... PLEASE let me know how to change that!! if anyone knows it would be a HUGE help!

[melissamacko]

I am so glad that I saw this because I missed the email for the updated BLENDS. Thank you so much for this great video. Will you be releasing any KJ B&W presets in the future?