Storyteller - Lightroom AI Adaptive Presets
The presets in the Storyteller Collection are more stylized than those in the Expedition pack and are designed to evoke a cinematic feel, providing the perfect starting point for crafting your own unique aesthetic. They have a strong focus on warm tones, which makes them ideal for travel and lifestyle photographers, as they will enable you to create the perfect atmosphere for your stories.
The presets in the Storyteller Collection are more stylized than those in the Expedition pack and are designed to evoke a cinematic feel, providing the perfect starting point for crafting your own unique aesthetic. They have a strong focus on warm tones, which makes them ideal for travel and lifestyle photographers, as they will enable you to create the perfect atmosphere for your stories.
The presets in the Storyteller Collection are more stylized than those in the Expedition pack and are designed to evoke a cinematic feel, providing the perfect starting point for crafting your own unique aesthetic. They have a strong focus on warm tones, which makes them ideal for travel and lifestyle photographers, as they will enable you to create the perfect atmosphere for your stories.
SEE THE STORYTELLER COLLECTION IN ACTION
Explore the gallery to experience some of my images edited with the Storyteller Pack
A WORD ABOUT PRESETS
The Storyteller Presets Pack contains a collection of my most used presets that I've carefully crafted over the years of traveling, capturing amazing places, and editing thousands of images, and is organized exactly the way I structure my regular workflow. They’re suitable for use by both beginners and professionals alike.
They are a great way to define a baseline look and were designed utilizing the power of creative profiles, allowing you to control the image processing in the most sophisticated way. These adjustments include RGB curves, gradient maps, and color grading that go far beyond what Lightroom or Presets are able to do independently, and the results are amazing. In addition, you can easily mix and match these profiles with your presets providing ultimate flexibility to create a fully customized editing style.
The presets work on various shooting styles, from travel to lifestyle photography, portraits, as well as urban environments, and I regularly use these on my portfolio works and for my iPhone shots.
This pack will fit any camera or phone, as each preset in my opinion requires adjustments at the editing stage. A clean and balanced original image is always a good base for any preset for the best results. After setting exposure and white balance editing can be done easily and quicker.
I love using a small number of presets. I think relying on too many presets can be overwhelming, confusing, and counterproductive. That's why, together with the signature 6 looks, I've included a custom Toolset & AI Effects with individual editing shortcuts, allowing you to tweak the settings further, experiment with new creative possibilities and discover your own style.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
5 Color + 1 B&W Signature Lightroom Presets - Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, Adobe Camera RAW (Regular-contrast & High-contrast version for each preset)
5 Lightroom Creative Profiles
18 Unique tools to add the finishing touch to your edits
9 Built-in AI “Adaptive” preset mask tools to speed up your workflow
XMP Files Included (no old lrtemplate or DNG files)
Endless combinations
Presets are compatible and fully optimized for Lightroom Classic, and the Creative Cloud (CC) for Desktop
All Presets are fully adjustable and non-destructive
An Adobe Creative Cloud subscription (which includes the Lightroom mobile app) and a desktop computer are required for installation and use of my Storyteller Presets + Profiles in the Lightroom mobile app
NOT Compatible with stand-alone versions of Lightroom (pre-2019)
NOT Compatible with the FREE Lightroom mobile app
Works on both Mac, PC
Works on RAW, TIFF and JPEG images (RAW capture recommended)
Installation guide for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC Mobile, and Photoshop
Usage guide in PDF format on using and adjusting presets
Instant Download. If you have any issues with your download, please contact me
Lifetime product updates and support
All of my Lightroom presets have been tested on a wide variety of images to help you get the most out of the collections. The ‘Storyteller’ pack works well with many lighting scenarios, but showcases its results best on images that have a good/near-perfect exposure. You may need to make some manual adjustments if your images are under or overexposed or if you require selective toning or color masking.
BEFORE & AFTER EXAMPLES
REFFEN
Modulated with the custom profile AL-ST 01, this preset adds to your photos a warm teal-orange toning with rich magenta warmth with desaturated greens/yellows.
SAND
This is the warmest preset of the pack which uses the AL-ST 02 custom profile to attenuate blues to create a consistent warm tones palette. Beautiful to create warm soft tones.
SWELLS
Together with the custom profile AL-ST 03, this preset creates a greenish, moody, and very stylized look. It works beautifully for both portraits and lifestyle shots.
DUDE
Together with the custom profile AL-ST 04, it creates another very stylized cinematic look with teal shadows and strong warm-yellowish highlights toning.
WANDERER
A very different color toning that in combo with the custom profile AL-ST 05 creates a contrasty look movie inspired with orangy reds.
RAVEN
The only B&W presets, punchy with a light roll-off on the highlights, and based on the Kodak film I use with my analog cameras. This is great for portraits and minimalistic images.
SIGNATURE CREATIVE PROFILES
Profiles provide advanced color grading effects. There are numerous features built into them, including RGB curves, color balance, gradient maps, and more. These features go much further than Lightroom or a preset alone. Unlike regular presets, creative profiles do not affect the basic adjustments of your photos, such as exposure, contrast, and white balance. This means that you can apply them on top of your own edits without losing your original settings. The strength (or opacity) of Profile adjustments can easily be increased or decreased using an Amount slider much the same way you can now adjust presets, allowing you to fine-tune the results.
AL-ST 01 // Subtle teals with sandy highlights
AL-ST 02 // A neutral palette with muted warmth
AL-ST 03 // Moody teals with tonal greens
AL-ST 04 // Strong teal and orange tones
AL-ST 05 // Earthy greens and blues with pristine highlights
TOOLSET & AI EFFECTS
Level - On // straightening the horizon
Upright Auto - On // transform tool Auto preset
Upright (Reset) // reset the transform Auto preset
Saturation + // slight saturation increase
Saturation - // slight saturation decrease
GND Darken Sky // basic soft graduated filter to darken the sky
GND Darken Foreground // basic soft graduated filter to darken the foreground
Soft Glow // create a global soft glow effect on the highlights
Harsh Light Mellow // create more balanced tones in harsh light conditions
Muted Tones // shift contrast, white and black levels for more muted tones
Vignette // create a soft vignette
Spotlight // light up the center of the frame
Grain + // adds a small amount of grain - similar to low-iso films
Grain ++ // adds a higher amount of grain - similar to high-iso films
Grain (Reset) // reset the grain settings
Warm Filter // adds a warm filter on the mid-highs and highlights
Cold Filter // adds a cold filter globally
Icy Blue Cast // adds a strong blue cast in the shadows and highlights
Subject Pop AI // enhances the main subject and darkens the background
Subject Enhance AI // enhance just the subject
Sky Saver AI // recover details in the sky
Sky Detail AI // adds dimension to the sky
Sky Bright AI // brightens up the sky
Sky Blue AI // adds a blue cast to the sky
Sky Warmth AI // adds a warm color tone to the sky
Sky Purple AI // adds a purple cast to the sky
Atmospheric Mist AI // create a mist effect in the background