Applying Base Presets

This workflow can be followed when you want to apply a basic overall correction preset -- like one of the VSCO Lightroom Agfa or Fuji film presets to out-of-camera raw shots.

Pre-Apply

• White Balance: Set all shots in the series like you would normally
• Lens Correction to all shots if applicable
• Tranformation Corrections & Cropping: maybe, maybe not. Transformation definitely helps but you might want to wait on cropping
• Snapshots: Cmd+N any shots you might want to revert at this point. Call the snapshots Base and use it, as it sounds, as a base corrections setting

Apply

Now apply the setting. Look specifically after application for...

• Highlight / white blasting: correct where needed, batch if needed. May require brush application corrections
• Shadows filling in: also correct where needed, at this point, may require brush application corrections
• Remove effect noise: if you aren't going for the truly-filmic look, remove the noise completely
• Sharpen as needed: sharpening might be built in to some presets. Normally I'd say replace it with your own sharpening. NOTE: if the preset is applying it's own sharpening and noise reduction, I'd remove it and overwrite the preset, presets should NOT apply those two things to shots.