Let's face it..

ACHIEVING EDITING CONSISTENCY ISDIFFICULT AND TIME CONSUMING

Especially with tricky lighting situations

  • Are there certain lighting situations you actively avoid because you don’t feel confident photographing or editing them?
  • Do you feel limited on what times of day and backgrounds you can use because you fear harsh light, blue hour, or less than ideal lighting situations?
  • Do you spend hours trying to achieve consistency on a full day gallery… constantly going back and forth editing images in different lighting situations, trying to get them to match?
  • Are you annoyed every time you spend money on a preset and it looks nothing like it was “supposed” to or just doesn’t work for you, or on everybody’s skin tones?
  • Have you felt frustrated with previous preset packs that require endless tweaks to get the look you want?

I feel you friend… we’ve all been there.

For Adobe Lightroom Classic v7.3 or newer

Lightingshouldn't be the reasonyou miss out on awesome photos

or struggle with your editing

Presets shouldn't take youhours of tweaking to get your edits consistent

who has time for that?

what if you had
presets that...

  • were intentionally designed for every real-life lighting situation you face (indoors and outdoors)
  • with 1 click… you could actually get perfectly consistent edits of completely different lighting situations (like harsh midday sun, backlit golden hour, and blue hour) 
  • gave you the confidence to photograph in any environment and every time of day (or night)
  • saved you hours of your time in your editing workflow with 70 pre-modified presets and 30 tools
  • unleashed your creativity in the editing process with 19 masks and brushes that give your photos that extra “x-factor"

For Adobe Lightroom Classic v7.3 or newer

Say hello to yournew favorite presets

ADVENTURE INSTEAD PRESETS

70 lighting situation modified presets

  • Go To
  • Harsh AF
  • Bright Background
  • Blue Hour & Night
  • Indoor
  • All the Feels B&W
  • Wanderlust

30 time-saving tools

19 creative masks & brushes

+ tutorials & guides

giving you theconfidenceto product amazing work in any situation &achieve perfect consistency

without spending hours in Lightroom

When I say 1-click…I mean 1-click

Meet the 70 pre-tweaked presets… built for real-life lighting

(you know, the type you can’t control)

Go To

8 presets

For: Nice, middle-of-the-road good “portrait lighting”—light on your subject’s face is soft and “even”

Lighting situations covered in the 8 versions: afternoon backlight, golden hour, open shade, cloudy days, snowy days

+ Tools & masks/brushes for hazy backlight, fog, and adding a warm glow

01 AI Go To

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

03 AI Go To

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

07 AI Go To

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 AI Go To

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

HARSH AF

8 presets

For: Taming severe shadows and softening harsh light that comes from direct sunlight or single-direction light sources

Lighting situations covered in the 8 versions: harsh midday noon sun, direct afternoon/evening sunlight (frontlit or side lit), very contrasty directional light in caves, forests, waterfalls, slot canyons

01 Harsh AF

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

05 Harsh AF

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

06 Harsh AF

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 Harsh AF

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

Bright Background

8 presets

For:  Balancing tricky photos when your subject is significantly darker than the background—typically due to a landscape feature where your subject is in shade/shadow and the background is much brighter.

Lighting situations covered in the 8 versions: Alpenglow on tall mountain peaks and any situation where your subject is in shadow and the background is bright due to buildings, trees, tents, canopies, valleys, or canyons. Also works great for retaining sunset colors in the sky.

+ Tools & masks/brushes for adding extra umph to alpenglow, sunsets, or skies

01 AI Bright Background

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

03 AI Bright Background

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

06 AI Bright Background

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 AI Bright Background

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

Blue Hour & Night

16 presets

(8 for blue hour, 8 for late blue hour & night)

For: Getting funky and creative after the sun goes down (or before it comes up) with very low ambient light during blue hour or nighttime when you only have a few artificial light sources or long exposures. 

Lighting situations covered in the 16 versions:  Blue hour, night, and star photos lit with lanterns, campfires, car headlights, candles, string lights, headlamps, sparklers, street lights, video lights, flash—anything you can dream up!

+ Tools/masks for noise reduction, sharpening, retaining details in dark/muddy lighting situations, adding dreamy “glow” effects to light sources, making stars “pop”

01 Blue Hour & Night

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 Blue Hour & Night

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

09 Blue Hour & Night - HDR

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

16 Blue Hour & Night - HDR

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

Indoor

16 presets

(8 for natural, 8 for artificial light)

For:  The full spectrum of indoor lighting situations from nice daytime window light to harsh overhead artificial light at night. This preset has both “soft” and “harsh” indoor presets to make even the worst artificial lighting look like a softbox.

Lighting situations covered in the 16 versions:  indoor window lighting (soft, harsh sidelight, or backlight), artificial indoor lighting from bounced or direct flash, video lights, halogen, incandescent, LED, candles, lamps, etc.

01 AI Indoor

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 AI Indoor

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

09 AI Indoor Harsh

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

16 AI Indoor Harsh

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

All the Feels B&W

8 presets

For: Emotional & nostalgic images (that give you “all the feels”) and are simply better without color. Designed to work like black & white film. 

Lighting situations covered in the 8 versions:   this extremely versatile black & white preset has 8 versions with varying amounts of contrast to work on all lighting situations from soft to harsh, indoors and outdoors.

+ Tools/masks for adding extra artistic grain

01 All the Feels B&W

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

04 All the Feels B&W

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

06 All the Feels B&W

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 All the Feels B&W

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

Wanderlust

6 presets

For:  True adventurers—landscapes and travel photos with extra contrast & saturation to accentuate landscape images and your adventures around the world.

Lighting situations covered in the 6 versions: this bonus preset adds drama and brings the details to life in your landscape and travel images whether it’s sunny or cloudy outside.

01 AI Wanderlust

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

05 AI Wanderlust

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

06 AI Wanderlust

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

08 AI Wanderlust

1 click + white balance & exposure adjustments only

What else is included?

Because you don’t need just another preset pack that leaves you wondering, “That’s it?” 

With these presets you’ll get:

Bonus Toolkit 

with 30 time-saving adjustments 

  • HSL tweaks (desaturating greens, saturating blues, etc.)
  • Lens Corrections (on, off)
  • Noise Reduction (high, medium, low, off)
  • Sharpening (high, medium, low, off)
  • Chromatic Aberration (on, off)
  • Grain (high, medium, low, off)
  • Clarity (high, medium, low)
  • Dehaze (high, low)
  • Vibrance boost (high, low)

Bonus Set of Masks & Brushes 

  • Darken (high, low)
  • Lighten (high, low)
  • Haze Save (high, low)
  • Alpenglow Save (high, low)
  • Sky Save (high, low)
  • Star Enhance (high, low)
  • Dream FX - Diffuse & Warmth (high, low)
  • Dream FX - Diffuse (high, low)
  • Dream FX - Add Warm Glow (high, low)

Quick-Start Guide PDF

Get rid of the guesswork… this is your “cheat sheet” to all 70 presets which quickly tells you exactly which preset to use for your situation

Preset Tutorial Video

54 min

Maddie Mae shares her screen in Lightroom and shows you all 70 presets, explains exactly how to know which ones to use, walks you through the toolkit and masks/brushes, and demos how to edit with these presets

How to Install PDF

So you can start using these today… this guide will show you exactly how to install the presets in Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 7.3.1 or newer)

How to Install Video

3 min

Prefer a video walk-through? In this quick video, Maddie Mae will show you how to easily install the presets in Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 7.3.1 or newer)

 

For Adobe Lightroom Classic v7.3 or newer

Never stress about editing consistency again

Adventure Instead Presets give you the confidence you need to say, 

“I will rock this”

no matter the lighting situation (and mean it).

Are you ready to build a consistent AF portfolio?

For Adobe Lightroom Classic v7.3 or newer

Got questions?

Q: What camera brands will these work on? 

A: I’ve personally photographed with both Nikon & Sony and have also tested these extensively on hundreds of Canon and Fuji raw files in every lighting situation. These presets work flawlessly on all 4 of those brands (and probably many others)

Q: What software are these compatible with?

A: These are .xmp preset file types and are compatible with Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 7.3.1 or newer) and Adobe Camera Raw (version 10.3 or newer, although ACR doesn’t support the masks/brushes).

Q: Do I need to do anything special when photographing to make sure these work for me?

A: Just make sure you’re photographing in RAW and that you don’t overexpose your highlights (there are some helpful exposure tips in the Quick-Start Guide PDF)

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T&C’s:

Due to the nature of a digital download product, all sales are final and by purchasing these products you agree there are no refunds. Downloads will be emailed to you within 12 hours of purchase and can be accessed in your account. Please email hello@adventureinsteadacademy.com if you do not receive an email link within 12 hours of purchase.

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For Adobe Lightroom Classic v7.3 or newer