White Gold Lightroom Desktop Preset for Editorial and Lifestyle Photography
White Gold is a warm, clean preset for Lightroom Classic (desktop) and Photoshop ACR - bringing out gold and beige tones in an image, with lovely skin tones. In that works well with both diffuse light as well as direct dramatic light, making it a versatile edit for fashion, portrait and wedding images. This is a great one for jewellery and beauty photography.
The White Gold pack It comes with 3 versions of the preset:
White Gold : Standard
White Gold - : Reduced intensity of preset, less fading and colour shifts
White Gold soft : Improves and evens out skin tones in harsher lighting conditions (this is designed for editing images with direct light on skin and very contrasty images)
PORTRAITS
FASHION
I love the look of both soft golden hour light for portraits as well as the edgier, more editorial style look of having direct light on skin. For images with diffuse light, use the regular White Gold preset, and for images with more contrasty lighting scenarios - use White Gold Soft. These sorts of images will be softened from their original but it will still come out with a good amount of contrast if the original image itself is fairly contrasty to start.
WEDDINGS
White Gold gives a elegant look to wedding images- warm but clean. Depending on the images, you might want to experiment with using the standard White Gold for some photos and the minus version for others (perhaps you don’t want quite as much desaturation for the florals, for example) .
