1. Pick the look
Choose a photo with the look you want. Preset Lab works out settings that move your photo toward it.
How far to go
Brightness shapes the light and dark balance with a tone curve. Colour adds the reference's tint to shadows, mids and highlights, and its overall saturation. Colour mixer nudges the hue and saturation of individual colours, so turn it down if skin tones shift.
2. Built-in presets
Choose one from the list and it is applied to your photo. You can still change it in Fine tune before you download.
3. Fine tune edited
Optional. These sit on top of the match and go into the preset file. Double-click a slider to zero it. Works without a reference photo too.
Tone curve
4. What is in the preset
- NoteChoose a reference photo to see the settings.
5. Download
Or save the edited picture
This saves the After picture at the native pixel size of the photo you loaded, not shrunk or compressed (PNG is lossless, JPG is saved at top quality). It is the tool's own preview maths, so it may differ slightly from what Lightroom gives with the preset. The preset file is the one to trust in Lightroom.
How to use it in Lightroom
Lightroom Classic. Open the Develop module. In the Presets panel on the left, click the plus (+) icon and choose Import Presets. Pick the downloaded .xmp file. It appears under the group name you chose. Click it to apply it to a photo.
Lightroom and Camera Raw. In Lightroom (the cloud version), open Presets, click the three dots and choose Import Presets. In Photoshop's Camera Raw, open Presets, click the three dots and choose Import Presets.
Tested in Lightroom. The .xmp files import and work there.
Adobe says Lightroom Classic 8.2 and earlier cannot import .xmp presets.
What it cannot do
RAW files (DNG, CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2 and more) open through the full-size JPEG preview the camera stores inside them. The picture is the camera's own rendering, and the edited picture you download is the size of that preview. A DNG with no preview (some Xiaomi and OnePlus phones) is read from its sensor data (uncompressed or lossless JPEG) at reduced size, about half or quarter of full size, with a simple automatic look, not Adobe's. Other RAW files with no preview give a message.
When it matches from a reference photo, it cannot copy masks, local edits, crops, grain, or a camera profile. It cannot read the settings of the reference, only the picture, so the result is an estimate of the look. Colours are matched from the overall picture, so a reference with very different content (for example a night street against a green forest) can pull colours the wrong way. Lower the sliders and check faces.
Drag the line to compare. The preview is my own copy of the maths, so Lightroom will look close but not identical, most of all for Saturation and the colour mixer.
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