What are your most used tweaks in LR or PS

[Stinky]

Just interested if people tend to have a set plan they like to tweak each photo with? Or whether most of the time its individual to each photo.

 

[Raymond Lin]

There is a basic setting that i click, a preset set.

Then tweak each one until something in the back of my mind that tell me to stop.

Experience will tell you what needs changing and when you need to stop.

 

[Stinky]

There is a basic setting that i click, a preset set.

Then tweak each one until something in the back of my mind that tell me to stop.

Experience will tell you what needs changing and when you need to stop.

i need to learn a preset, haha make one up that works for me. Im really enjoying this 3 month break from work (love being a director) its really given me time to learn and get stuck into my photography. Now i just really need to learn the editing suites

 

[SDK^]

Good luck getting people's Preset secrets - they are more closely guarded than their bank statements

 

[Hyburnate]

Good luck getting people's Preset secrets - they are more closely guarded than their bank statements

That's because it creates those bank statements Depends what you like the look of, VSCO/something similar are nice if you can afford them and then tweak them.

 

[shaggyd]

Histogram is my most used tool, as I do my editing on a laptop, the brilliance of the screen is not a true representation of the image. By monitoring the histogram, I edit my photos to ensure that they are not too bright/dark and are exposed with a good range (if I am trying to get a certain 'contrasty' style).

 

[a1ex2001]

There is a basic setting that i click, a preset set.

Then tweak each one until something in the back of my mind that tell me to stop.

Experience will tell you what needs changing and when you need to stop.

I do almost exactly the same, I have a couple of different pre-sets depending on the subject as I like different styles for different things. Then tweak from there hopefully as little as possible as I hate spending time editing!

 

[An Exception]

Step 1. Import
Basic lens corrections are applied automatically on import.

Step 2. Apply my own style preset

Step 3. Pre-render all pictures

Step 4. Cull

Step 5. Process
Exposure, white balance, crop, recover highlight/shdows if needed.

 

[D.P.]

I prefer a fairly natural look to photos so they will age well. A quick preset mostly setting the Adobe color profile and some vibrancy/contrast.
For landscape shots I have vignetting correction turned on but not distortion (vignetting looks bad, distortion is not noticeable and correcting it reduced corner sharpness), for portraits and wildlife it is the inverse (slight vignetting can be helpful/desirable, distortion is not), and for architecture it is both.

When processing the most common tweak will be a little exposure, shadow and highlight adjust to get the dynamic range into something more displayable and printable.