How to Create Favorito Preset on Lightroom from Scratch as Beginner

What is a Lightroom preset? A Lightroom preset is a free (or paid) add-on/filter that comes with pre-determined settings for some of the different editing features in Lightroom. A preset has all the settings ready to create a certain type of visual with just one click. They can save photographers, editors, and designers a lot of time while helping maintain a consistent visual style.

Favorito preset is one of Lightroom presets created by Erno Ybañez, a Philippine video creator with great skills in setting up Lightroom presets. It is popular for it warm yellow, soft orange tone, and unique vintage vibe.

In this article, I have explained in a step-by-step guide how to create this unique Favorito preset look from scratch as a beginner. With the aid of pictures, and a video of all the settings. At the end of this article, you will be able to create any preset of your choice as your own custom preset.

How To Create The Favorito Preset From Scratch (A-Z guide):

Favorito Preset often uses specific tones like warm yellows and soft oranges. They need for balanced exposure and moderate contrast to create a smooth, inviting aesthetic to achieve a rich but not overly saturated palette. The texture and clarity used is to maintain hint of softness without loosing detail and subtle manipulate this to create a balanced, and pleasing result.

Step 1: Open Lightroom and Import your Photo

• Download and install the Lightroom app.
• Click on Device on the bottom options to access your photos on your Device.
• Select a well-lit image as this helps for a better result.

Step 2: Basic Adjustments

• Click on light on the bottom panel then set Exposure at 0, Contrast -26, Highlights -61, Shadows +75, Whites -100, and Blacks -31.
• Click on curve and then, click on the white circle and slightly adjust the 13 box as shown in this picture.

• Tap on Color on the bottom panel, then set Temp +28, Tint 0, Vibrance +50, and Saturation 0.

Step 3: Color Grading the Favorito Preset Style

• Click on grading and the first circle, set the color to slight pink as in the picture below.

• Tap on the third circle and set the color at blue as in the picture below. Click on ‘done‘ to save.

• Click on Color mix, then tap on red. Set Hue 0, Saturation +25, Luminance -13.
• Tap Orange, set Hue 0, Saturation -15, Luminance 0.
• Tap Yellow, set Hue -65, Saturation -99, Luminance +19.
• Click Green, set Hue -28, Saturation -100, Luminance -45.
• Click Light Blue, set Hue -56, Saturation -100, Luminance -30.
• Tap on Blue, set Hue -72, Saturation -100, Luminance +23.
• Tap Purple, set Hue +40, Saturation -100, Luminance +24.
• Click Pink, set Hue +29, Saturation -100, Luminance +27, then click on done.

Step 4: Fine-Tuning Details

• Click on Effects, set Texture +18, Clarity 0, Dehaze +12, Grain 25, Size 25, Roughness 50, Vignette 0.
• Click on Detail, set Sharpening 10, Radius 1.0, Detail 25, Masking 0, Noise reduction 20, Detail 50, Contrast 22, Color noise 20, Detail 60, Smoothness 80.

Step 5: Save Your Favorito 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.

Step 6: Testing and Tweaking the Favorito preset

It is very important to test your preset on different images/pictures as some pictures quality or lightening might not be really compactible with the Favorito you just created. Thus, you need to tweak the preset for better consistency across various photos (e.g., adjusting exposure or saturation).

Also, you can save your different presets to a custom user preset list, this way you can easily text different preset on one picture to see the one that best suits the image you are editing. In my next article I have I explained the steps to add and organize different custom presets to a user preset list on Lightroom.

Conclusion

In this article I have covered all the steps to consider when creating the Favorito preset. I explained how to slightly brighten or adjust exposure for desired mood, enhance midtones for a balance feel. Also, how to soften highlights and recover shadow detail for an even look. I applied just enough clarity to sharpen details without overemphasizing texture. I used sparingly for added mood or soft look. Not withstanding, I have also explained the importance of maintaining clean, smooth tones, especially in low-light images.

You should not forget to personalize the look by adjusting based on the lighting, subject, and mood. Save the preset for future use and share it with others. If you have any contribution, suggestion or questions on clarity, please do not hesitate to drop your comment in the comment section below.