Right now I'm going to show you how to give your image a stylish look in a couple of clicks using the powerfully simple Adjustment Presets.
Hi, I'm Colin Smith from PhotoshopCAFE, and today I'm going to show you how to use Adjustment Presets to apply powerful tone and color adjustments to your image.
You can get the looks for your design with just a few clicks.
All the settings are saved in the Presets and can be applied with a simple click.
You also have access to the adjustments, so you can modify and change the settings to suit your image.
Let's get started.
We're going to go to the Adjustments panel.
If you don't see the Adjustments panel, just choose Window, Adjustments.
At the top you'll see Single adjustments.
We could either scroll down or collapse this panel and go to Presets.
You'll see More, click on there, and now we see all the Presets.
As you roll over these Presets, you can see how they're going to affect the image.
If we want to apply them, we click on them.
Let's use the Sunshine one from Portraits, and this will give us that nice desert look that we're wanting for our image.
So let's click to apply it.
And notice it creates a new adjustment layer with the settings from that Preset.
Let's add a second Preset.
If we go down under Creative, let's click on the Color Pop.
And once again it creates an adjustment layer.
Some Presets contain more than one adjustment.
Let's click on the adjustment.
And if we want to change it, go up to the Properties panel.
Let's increase the Vibrance about +97.
And let's also increase the Saturation to about +33 to give us a really strong effect.
If this effect is a little too strong, you can adjust it using the Opacity.
By adjusting the Opacity it maintains the same balance between the settings, but we can adjust how intense we want it.
Maybe we want to save these new settings as a brand-new Preset.
It's more intense, plus we have the two stacked together.
So let's select them all.
We're going to click on the top, hold the Shift key and click on the bottom.
Now let's go under the Adjustments and let's scroll to the top and choose Back to view all.
What we want to do is go down to where it says Your presets, and this is where we can save our own.
To create a Preset of all the selected layers, simply click on the + button.
Why don't we call it sunbaked and then click Save?
If you want to delete any of these adjustment layers, all you need to do is select them and hit the Delete key or drag them into the Trash.
Let's reapply it from our Preset.
There's the Preset that we created, sunbaked.
Notice as we roll over, we see it, click and it applies these adjustments with all the settings that we saved in our Preset.
As you can see, Adjustment Presets are easy to use, and you have the flexibility to change any of the settings.
They're a great way for you to stylize your photos or to explore different adjustments in Photoshop.
