This is a Lightroom tool in the form of a preset

You heard it right a Lightroom tool and not a preset. You load it up as a preset, it works by applying a set of predefined Lightroom settings but since you are not gonna leave this enabled when you are done editing I prefer to not call it a preset.

What does it do?

The goal of this tool is to enable you to look at the photo you are editing in black and white and make adjustments to the brightness and contrast values without being influenced by the colors. For example—yellow feels brighter than blue, even when both colors have the same brightness value, so your eyes might be deceived. As a result, seeing your photos in B&W helps you balance exposure properly, so your final edit will look much better.

How it works?

This tool creates a Lightroom mask over the entire image with Saturation set to -100 and the amount set to 200%. This way unless you already messed with the color wheels you will see the image in complete B&W and you can adjust your photo using masking for the perfect exposure balance.

And most importantly this can be toggled on and off. --- Without affecting the rest of your edit.

How to use the Lightroom Visual Helper?

The idea is to use this as a supporting layer to get an better view of the luminance vales in your photos.

So you will:

• Click the preset to turn it
• Adjust the luminance locally (with masking) or globally with any Lightroom slider you see fit for the job
• Click the second preset to turn it off and it will go away while all your edits remain in place

Why buy it?

You can absolutely watch the video and create your own, I am not gatekeeping my methods. But if you’d rather skip the trial and error and just get a preset that works well, you can grab the one I made. Plus, every purchase helps me keep making more content and developing better Lightroom Tools for photographers like the :

🔹 All In One Grain
🔹 Color Response Curves

Your support means a lot—it keeps this whole thing going.

INSTALLATION:

Copy the .xmp files to the specific folder:

Windows: C:Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings

macOS: User Library>Application Support>Adobe>CameraRaw> Settings

You can make as many subfolders and organize the files however you see fit as Lightroom won't care and it will load everything in them

To learn how to add any presets to Lightroom you can follow these steps:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/kb/faq-install-presets-profiles.html