Question about presets

[cichy1012]

Ive been learning how to photo edit with Lightroom 5 myself for a bit now. I notice that there are presets out there that offer natural light, warm tones, etc. Now do these presets enhance everything? Like blemishes, soften skin, lighten eyes etc. Or do you still have to do that yourself?

thank you

 

[Fred Kingston_RIP]

No... presets are applied equally to the entire image...

There are other tools to select/adjust blemishes, skin tones, eyes etc...

An example might be in order...

You have a color image of a less than beautiful woman...
You might select a preset that applies a Sepia tone to the entire image...
after that, using the individual brush/selection tools, gradients, you could them remove the blemishes, and lighten specific areas of the image making an average woman look better...

If you do a lot of portraiture and touchup of people... there are standalone/and add-in programs that refine and speed up the editing process using face-recognition metrics to make those adjustments...