Sam Eye Amhigh-ticket clients with AIBook a callBook a call

MAKE YOUR OWN PRESETS

One evening, and the look is yours.

Buying presets works right up until everyone owns the same ones. Then every photo looks the same and nobody remembers who took it. This is the part nobody would explain to me: how the RGB tone curve actually works, and how to build a look out of it that belongs to you. About an hour and you have made your first one.

The same photo after a colour grade built from the tone curveA bride with a bouquet straight out of the cameraBeforeAfter
  • Money Back Guarantee
  • One-Time Payment
  • Instant Access
  • Watch At Your Own Pace
  • Lifetime Access
The RGB tone curve panel inside Lightroom

THE RGB CURVE

This one small panel is where a look is really made. Most cheap presets never touch it, which is why they fall apart on the very next photo.

COLOUR BY COLOUR

You take a photo you love, pull the colours out of it, and rebuild them yourself. Then you save that as your own preset and use it forever.

Lightroom open with a colour palette pulled out of a photo
Sam editing photos in Lightroom on a desk with two screens

WATCH AND COPY

It is recorded on my own screen. You open Lightroom next to it, follow along, and pause whenever you need to.

THE SAME PHOTO, THREE WAYS

The photo after a normal editThe photo straight out of the cameraBeforeAfter
The photo after a look built from the tone curveThe photo after a normal editBeforeAfter
The same building after a look built from the tone curveA stone building straight out of the cameraBeforeAfter

WHAT YOU LEARN

How the RGB curve works

The one panel that holds a look together, explained from zero. No theory you cannot use.

Find the look you actually like

How to work out what you are drawn to, instead of copying whoever is popular this year.

Rebuild a look you love

Take a photo you admire, read its curve, rebuild it, and save it as your preset.

Make it work on every photo

Why cheap presets break on the next picture, and how to build one that does not.

Make LUTs for video

The same look for your clips, so your photos and your video finally match.

Black and white that looks rich

Not grey and flat. The way to make it deep.

My full edit, start to end

You watch me take one raw file all the way to finished, with nothing skipped.

Sell your own presets

Once the look is yours, you own it. You can sell it the way I sell mine.

WHY I EVEN LEARNED THIS

Buying presets helped me grow at the start. Then more and more photographers bought the same ones, our photos started looking alike, and clients stopped caring who took them.

I spent years asking about the tone curve. Nobody wanted to say. Even the people I had bought presets from kept it to themselves, so in the end I worked it out on my own. Now my clients pick me for the look, and they pay more for it. So I would rather just teach it.

A landscape photo edited with a signature look

MAKE YOUR OWN PRESETS

Stop renting a look that is not yours.