You just won’t have enough hours in the day to do all the images justice, much less have a life outside of photography. For instance, if you’re a wedding photographer who has two weddings per weekend and do all the editing yourself, you’re going to need to take advantage of a preset tool. Sometimes, it’s simply too time consuming. Not everyone can sit behind a computer for hours on end editing images. That’s really the whole purpose behind creating them. From there, you can tweak the look of your own photo.īesides saving time, many users who don’t necessarily know how to do a lot of fancy editing can use these types of presets and still get professional looking results. If you already have a vision in your mind for what you want your final product to look like, you can simply install a package such as Color Efex Pro on your Mac or PC, choose the sample image that looks like your desired outcome and select that image. If you haven’t read that post, basically, tools like this save a heck of a lot of time. In that post, I explained some of the many advantages for using tools and presets such as the ones in that package.
That one had to do with Color Efex Pro for Photoshop. I touched on the topic of using outside tools to assist you in your photo editing in a previous post.
