How to Create Faded Black and White Preset on Lightroom mobile
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This Faded Black and White Preset is created by me (Mbah Chinedu E.) the author of this article and one of the founder of this blog. I have created lots of presets on Lightroom which I shared tutorials on my YouTube channel and on this blog.
In this tutorial, I have explained all the steps needed to setup the Faded Black and White Preset, the right picture to use. Also, I added a video tutorial to best explain how to create your own preset. Without further ado, let’s dive into it.
What is Faded Black and White Preset?
To start with, I will quickly explain what presets are; Lightroom presets are saved groups of photo-editing settings in Adobe Lightroom that can be applied to photos with a single click. They can be used to improve the style, lighting, blur, and other aspects of a photo.
Faded Black and White Preset is on of the Lightroom Presets created by Mbah Chinedu E. the author of this article/blog. It is known for it stylish black and white feel, and that little minimal touch aethestic looks. It transform your picture immediately after application giving it that dark faded look as seen in the picture below.
How to create the Faded Black and White Preset?
Download and Install Adobe Lightroom app
To create this preset, you will need to download and install the Adobe Lightroom app on Google Playstore for Android devices and Apple App store for iPhone users. If you already have this app, then just move on to the next step.
Importing the default image for the edit
After installing the Lightroom app, open it and locate where your pictures is on your device by clicking the Device option at the bottom.
Note: It is crucial to use a well lit picture that is free from every prior edit or filter. This is because using a picture that already has filter applied to it will interfere with the whole edit process and will not give it that look you desire to achieve.
Select the image by taping on it. It will open on the next screen and on the bottom icons locate the edit button to proceed with the styling.
Setting Lights and Curves
- Tap on Lights at the newly bottom menu icons that popped up.
- Leave the Exposure at 0, Contrast +37, Highlights -100, Shadows +52, Whites -67, Blacks +100
- Tap on Curve, you will see four circles at the bottom (White, Red, Green, Blue)
- Tap on White, drag the dots and set as in the image below. If you do not know how to edit curves on Lightroom mobile, considering watching my tutorial on how to edit curves on Lightroom mobile on my YouTube Channel.
- Leave Red and Green, tap on the Blue circle and also set the curves as shown in the picture below. Then click done.
Editing Color (Grading and Color Mix)
This is where we adjust the colors in the picture, reducing and increasing the amounts of certain colors to get the look we want to achieve.
- Leave the Temp and Tint at 0, adjust Vibrance to +22, and Saturation at -10
- Tap on Grading, you will see 4 circle at the top of the big circle. Select the first circle then scroll down. Expand the arrow where you see Shadows.
- Set Hue at 230, Saturation at 28, Luminance at +50, Blending at 70, and Balance at +22. In case you don’t know how to adjust these sliders, please check my YouTube tutorial on how to drag and adjust Colors and Grading on Lightroom mobile.
- Tap on the last circle and adjust Hue to 230, Saturation at 28, and Luminance at 0. Click on done when done.
- Select Color mix, leave red as default, tap on orange and set Hue as 0, Saturation as -7, and Luminance as +9.
- Tap Yellow, set Hue as 0, Saturation as -100, and Luminance as -30.
- Tap Green, set Hue as 0, Saturation as -100, and Luminance as -18.
- Select Light Blue, set Hue as 0, Saturation as -100, and Luminance as -14.
- Tap Blue, set Hue as 0, Saturation as -100, and Luminance as -14.
- Click Purple, set Hue as 0, Saturation as -100, and Luminance as -16.
- Tap Pink, set Hue as 0, Saturation as -100, and Luminance as -13. Click on Done when done.
Editing Effects (Effects, Vignette, and Grain)
- Tap on Effect from the bottom menu bar, then select Effects again from where you see Effects, Vignette, and Grain.
- Set Texture as +12, Clarity as +31 , and Dehaze as +26.
- Leave the other options (Vignette and Grain) as default 0.
Adjusting Detail (Sharpening, Noise, and Color noise)
- At the bottom menu, select Detail, then tap on Sharpening from the options where you see Sharpening, Noise, and Color noise.
- Set Sharpening to 15, Radius to 1.0 or 1.00, Detail at 25, and Masking at 0.
- Navigate to Noise, then set Noise reduction to 20, Detail to 50, and Contrast at 21.
- Tap on Color noise, set Color noise reduction at 28, Detail at 76, and Smoothness at 75.
Exporting the Faded Black and White Preset
We have finally come to the end of this editing, we are to export this preset as a DNG file which are literally preset files. This will enable others or you to be able to reuse this edits or settings again. Also, you will be able to apply this newly created preset with one click on your pictures.
- To save this preset for future purpose, click on the envelop icon you see at the top, and some options will display.
- From the options, select Export as…
- Leave the file type as default (DNG), click on the mark icon at the top right.
- It will ask you where you want to share this file to, please select the files or share to your social friends. For iPhone users scroll down to where you see save to files, then click on it.
- Choose the folder you want to save this preset file to and don’t forget to rename it with your custom name.
I created a video on how to export presets from your Lightroom app to your files on my YouTube channel. Please don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more tutorials like this.
Conclusion
If you read and follow these guidelines up to this point, you will not only have learnt how to create the Faded Black and White preset, but also develop and enhanced your editing skills on Lightroom mobile. You also have equipped yourself with how to create your own Lightroom presets from scratch.
In this tutorial, I guide you how to edit Colors, Grading, Details, effects, Lights, and Curves to achieve that Faded Black and White Preset. With links to tutorial videos on how to do some features I stated in this tutorial. Below I also attached a YouTube video on How to create this Preset, with step by step processes in the video and a voice over explaining how I am doing it.
If you experience any issue using this guide, please don’t hesitate to drop a comment below. Also, don’t forget to share this post to others as this is how you support me the creator.
Note: All content, videos and pictures are fully mine, I created everything I explained in this tutorial, I have great skills in creating presets and I have created lots of them. You can join my Free Lightroom Preset WhatsApp group or Free Lightroom Preset Telegram group where I share Preset files to my subscribers. You can see lots of these tutorial videos I have on this blog in my YouTube channel.