How to Install Lightroom Presets on Desktop and Mobile

Lightroom presets will dramatically streamline your post-processing workflow. However, before you can use any you’ve bought or downloaded, you’ll have to install them.

The good news is, whatever version of Lightroom you’re using, it’s pretty simple to do so. All is explained in this post. Come read, come learn.

Shooting Ilford Pan 400 in Shanghai

More film photography, right here. And this time we’re shooting monochrome.

Ilford Pan 400 is a film available in Asia. It’s not expensive, but does that make it worth buying if you’re in the area? Or even getting some shipped if you’re not?

To find out, I shot some Shanghai street photography with it. Here, in this very article, you can come see how it turned out. Come one, come all. Come on. Come in.

How Can Lightroom Presets Improve Your Photography?

Looking to improve your photography? Who isn’t?! But seriously, we’d all like to be better at what we do. The question is how.

Pounding the streets and shooting often is one way to improve your photography. It’s the hard work – the graft – that we all need to put in.

Using Lightroom presets to improve your photography is smarter. And it works. Want to know how? Come read, come learn.

Are Lightroom Presets Cheating?

Is using Lightroom presets cheating? I’m going to say no. No, it isn’t.

So how about Lightroom and Photoshop themselves, and all the other photo editing software out there? Is that cheating? Nobody wants to think an image has been, gasp, ‘photoshopped’, do they?

Of course, some dishonesty can happen when processing your images. But in most cases, I don’t see it as cheating. Come read and learn why.