And there's some truth to this: in an era when photographic success is equated with the number of Instagram followers, it's no wonder that people want to buy a formula that feels like it's guaranteed to get likes and comments. One friend suggested that they're great if you want to create Instagram cliches, but not much use for anything else. The response from the handful of people I asked was all but unanimous: they're a waste of money spend your time learning instead.
MASTIN LABS VS VSCO FREE
In the past, I've downloaded a few free packs, clicked laboriously through every preset and decided that they were all useless: blunt tools creating over-edited results and deploying settings that I could easily have achieved myself had I wanted to ruin one of my photos. In the six years that I've been using Lightroom, I've never paid for a preset. This begs the question: is it worth handing over your hard-earned cash when you might be better off investing your time rather than your money? Nowadays, it seems that every YouTube photography celebrity has a batch of presets that they want you to buy.