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Photography vocabulary · Editing & Retouching

Preset

Meaning in photography, with examples

/ˈpriːset/nounCommon term

In photography, preset means: A saved group of editing settings that you can apply to many photos with one click to give them the same look.

In Turkish: hazır ayar, preset

How it is used

Very common in Lightroom-style workflows. Photographers create, apply, tweak and even sell presets, and use them to keep a consistent editing style. A preset is only a starting point; each photo usually still needs small adjustments.

Example sentences

  1. I applied my wedding preset to the whole set and then fixed the exposure one by one.

  2. Her presets give everything a warm, faded film look.

Common collocations

  • apply a preset
  • create a preset
  • Lightroom preset
  • sell presets
  • editTo improve photos after the shoot by adjusting things like exposure, color and cropping, and to choose which images to keep.
  • color gradingAdjusting the colors and tones of photos to create a particular mood or style, for example warm highlights with cool shadows.
  • contrastThe difference between the light and dark areas of an image. High contrast has deep blacks and bright whites; low contrast looks flatter and softer.
  • saturationHow strong and intense the colors in an image are. Zero saturation gives black and white; very high saturation looks loud and unnatural.

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