Tutorial on How to Create Kreme Brown Preset on Lightroom

Kreme Brown Preset: A Lightroom preset is a pre-defined collection of editing settings that you can apply on your pictures with one click. Adjustments to exposure, contrast, saturation, color grading, and blur can all be found in presets. Benefit of using Presets for editing is because of fast image enhancement, consistent photo editing, time savings, inspiration, and trying out new features.

Kreme Brown Preset is a popular preset created by Erno Ybañez a Philippine editor. It became popular for it unique creamy brown style. This tutorial guide will help beginners create their own Kreme Brown preset, even with no prior experience. Just follow the settings I used in this guide to get same result of Kreme brown style.

What is a Kreme Brown Preset?

Kreme Brown preset is a unique style of preset that brightens your picture with creamy brown tones, cinematic feel, cool orange, dramatic contrasts, and faded tones. It is often used in photography, especially for landscapes, portraits, or cinematic effects.

Why Create One?: I encourage you to learn how to create these presets because you can’t get most of them freely, also it helps you master your editing skills on Lightroom. Learning how to create gives you opportunity to being a preset originator and you can start your own community with it, and sell them.

Getting Started: Tools You’ll Need

Editing Software Options: There are many software used for creating presets, but I specifically recommend you use Adobe Lightroom app. You can get this Lightroom app from your app store or playstore. This is because it is very easy to use and navigate.

Setting Up Your Workspace: This is not really compulsory but I will encourage you to be in a noise free environment to be able to concentrate. Also have a color grading panel or histogram, to assist you pick the right colors choice.

Sample Image: It is important to use a well lit image with natural lights. As this helps to bring out your edit clearly. Picture varies so use an unedited picture for your editing to be able to get the right edit quickly.

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Kreme Brown Preset on Lightroom

Step 1: Step 1: Importing Your Image

Open your Lightroom app, on the bottom menu click on “Device” then select a clear bright edit free picture. Also, you can share or import your photo to your Lightroom app for further edit. Please check my YouTube channel for tutorial on how to import and export pictures to your Lightroom App.

Step 2: Adjusting Basic Settings (Exposure, Contrast, and Saturation)

• Click on Light on the bottom menu, then set Exposure at 0, Contrast -43, Highlights -100, Shadows +44, Whites +23, and Blacks +62.
• Click on curve , then navigate to the first circle (white) and adjust the settings as the image below.

• Leave the red and green circle as default; then click on the blue circle, adjust the curves as in the image below.

• Click on “Done” to proceed.

Step 3: Applying Skyfall Preset Tones

• Click on Color on the bottom panel, then set Temp +22, Tint +14, Vibrance +12, and Saturation 0.
• Click on Grading then tap on the first circle, scroll down to where you see “Shadows” expand it with the arrow icon if you don’t see the options to adjust Hue and Saturation.
• Adjust Hue to 40, Saturation 24, Luminance -58, Blending 100, Balance +66.
• Click on the third circle under color grading; scroll down and set Hue 234, Saturation 13, Luminance -41, Blending 100, and Balance +66.
• Click on the fourth circle and adjust Hue to 80, Saturation 3, Luminance -33, and then click on ‘Done‘ to save.
• Click on Color mix, then tap on red. Set Hue 0, Saturation 0, Luminance 0.
• Tap Orange, set Hue 0, Saturation -18, Luminance +19.
• Tap Yellow, set Hue -87, Saturation -72, Luminance +14.
• Click Green, set Hue -31, Saturation -92, Luminance +14.
• Click Light Blue, set Hue -66, Saturation -55, Luminance -18.
• Tap on Blue, set Hue -13, Saturation -70, Luminance -23.
• Tap Purple, set Hue 0, Saturation -100, Luminance 0.
• Click Pink, set Hue 0, Saturation -66, Luminance 0, then click on “Done” to save.
• Click on Effects, set Texture +19, Clarity 0, Dehaze +16; Grain 15, Size 25, Roughness 50; Vignette 0.
• Click on Detail, set Sharpening 15, Radius 1.0, Detail 25, Masking 28; Noise reduction 12, Detail 50, Contrast 27; Color noise reduction 7, Detail 60, and Smoothness 73.
• Click on Optics and leave it as default.

Saving and Using the Kreme Brown Preset

• Click on Share (envelop) icon then click on “Export as…“
• Leave it at DNG and click on the mark icon to save.
• You can further choose to share to social media or the location you want to save it to.
• Also, you can rename and categorize the file you just saved from your file manager for easy future use.

Tips for Beginners

Please be advised that it is important to test your preset on a different pictures. This is because the quality or lighting of some image may affect the quality of the preset you just created. Therefore, you need to adjust the preset (e.g., changing exposure or saturation) to best suit the photos.

You can also choose to save your settings in a custom user preset list, which allows you to test different presets on photos at once. In my next article, I have explained how to create and organize different custom presets to Lightroom user preset list. Also, you can watch tutorials on YouTube channel to assist you on that.

Conclusion

I have stated all the settings needed to create Kreme Brown preset from scratch. Just follow my procedures and exact settings to get same result as mine. Have in mind using a different image or image with poor quality will impact the result. Always use a bright and clear picture that is free from filters or other effect.

The video above is from my YouTube channel where I teach how to create presets. I have lots of videos tutorials showing step by step guide to make your own preset, export preset and share with your friends too. Please subscribe to my channel to encourage me to create more presets tutorials.

Remember to customize the style by making adjustments according to the subject, lighting, and mood. Share the preset with others and save it for later use. Please feel free to leave a comment below if you have any clarification-related queries, suggestions, or contributions.