Rethink Landscape Processing in Lightroom

Most presets give you a destination. Rethink gives you a roadmap.

Are you feeling stuck in your editing flow? You know your images can be stronger, but the route from raw file to final vision often feels scattered. I’m David Kingham, and I created the Rethink system I wished existed.

Rethink combines a structured 7-step workflow with a modular toolkit of presets for Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). It replaces guesswork with a methodical, repeatable process that gives you the tools and the clear path to realize your creative vision.

A Smarter System for Better Photos.

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    Gain Clarity & Focus

    My 7-step workflow removes guesswork and decision fatigue so you can edit with clarity and intention.

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    Go Beyond Fixed Looks

    This is a toolkit, not a one-click filter. Every tool is modular, stackable, and adaptable to your image and vision.

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    Sculpt Light & Atmosphere

    Move past basic adjustments. Use brush-based tools to paint with light, shape mood, and create immersive atmosphere.

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    Build Your Unique Style

    As your skills and artistic voice evolve, Rethink empowers you to craft your own signature landscape editing style.

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The Rethink Toolkit in Action

forest scene before rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
geyser in yellowstone before processing
forest scene before rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
geyser in yellowstone before processing
forest scene before rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
geyser in yellowstone before processing
forest scene before rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer before processing
geyser in yellowstone before processing
forest scene after rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
geyser in yellowstone after processing
forest scene after rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
geyser in yellowstone after processing
forest scene after rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
geyser in yellowstone after processing
forest scene after rethink processing
lower falls in yellowstone after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
dramatic sunset in colorado mountains in summer after processing
geyser in yellowstone after processing

My Story: Why I Created Rethink

For years, I taught photography workshops and saw the same problem again and again: talented photographers getting lost in the complexity of Lightroom and Photoshop. They were following conventional rules and tutorials, but their final images lacked a personal spark. They felt stuck.

Rethink wasn't born from a desire to sell presets. It was born from my own need to build a logical, repeatable system for myself—a system that put creativity and intuition back at the center of the process, instead of just technical steps.

My goal is to do more than just give you tools; it's to share that entire methodology. This is the system that helps you break free from those same conventions and finally develop a workflow that feels like you. It’s about turning the editing process from a technical chore into an act of creative expression.

A Professional Process from Start to Finish.

The 7-Step Rethink Landscape Workflow

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🧱 Rethink Core Prep

Essential First Steps for Flawless Edits

Goal: Build a flawless technical foundation before creative work begins. Follow Adobe-recommended best practices so your file is stable, optimized, and ready for advanced editing.

What you’ll do:

  • Properly Sequence AI Tools: Merge HDRs or panoramas, apply Denoise, and run Raw Details or Super Resolution at the correct stage to avoid technical issues later.
  • Clean and Correct: Use a custom preset to reveal and remove hidden dust spots, and apply essential lens corrections for optical accuracy.
  • Set a Perfect White Balance: Temporarily hyper-saturate the image to spot and neutralize subtle color casts with precision.
  • Analyze Composition: Convert the image to monochrome and blur it to remove distractions so you can refine crop and framing based on shapes and flow.
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Essential First Steps for Flawless Edits

Goal: Build a flawless technical foundation before creative work begins. Follow Adobe-recommended best practices so your file is stable, optimized, and ready for advanced editing.

What you’ll do:

  • Properly Sequence AI Tools: Merge HDRs or panoramas, apply Denoise, and run Raw Details or Super Resolution at the correct stage to avoid technical issues later.
  • Clean and Correct: Use a custom preset to reveal and remove hidden dust spots, and apply essential lens corrections for optical accuracy.
  • Set a Perfect White Balance: Temporarily hyper-saturate the image to spot and neutralize subtle color casts with precision.
  • Analyze Composition: Convert the image to monochrome and blur it to remove distractions so you can refine crop and framing based on shapes and flow.
Presets menu with various options on a dark background
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🚀 Rethink Style Launch

Choose Your Creative Starting Point

Goal: Select a foundational style that sets the overall contrast and tonal direction of your image. This is the closest the toolkit comes to a traditional preset, but it is designed as a launch pad for editing, not as a one-click final look.

What you’ll do:

  • Match Preset to Photo: Choose a starting point based on your image’s dynamic range (Low, Medium, High, or Extreme). Each preset uses an Adobe Color Profile optimized for that type of scene, ensuring accurate tones and consistent results.
  • Utilize AI and HDR Power: Pick from standard presets for full manual control, AI-powered adaptive presets that intelligently analyze your image, or HDR-optimized presets designed to look their best on modern high-dynamic-range displays.
List of Rethink Landscape Style Launch settings with various options on a dark background

Choose Your Creative Starting Point

Goal: Select a foundational style that sets the overall contrast and tonal direction of your image. This is the closest the toolkit comes to a traditional preset, but it is designed as a launch pad for editing, not as a one-click final look.

What you’ll do:

  • Match Preset to Photo: Choose a starting point based on your image’s dynamic range (Low, Medium, High, or Extreme). Each preset uses an Adobe Color Profile optimized for that type of scene, ensuring accurate tones and consistent results.
  • Utilize AI and HDR Power: Pick from standard presets for full manual control, AI-powered adaptive presets that intelligently analyze your image, or HDR-optimized presets designed to look their best on modern high-dynamic-range displays.
List of Rethink Landscape Style Launch settings with various options on a dark background
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🔳 Rethink Tonal Adjustments

Sculpt Light and Shadow

Goal: Refine the light and shadow in your image before making creative color adjustments. Tonal changes affect both color saturation and hue, so addressing tonal structure first gives you more control and leads to cleaner, more predictable results when you adjust color later.

What you’ll do:

  • Targeted Contrast: Move beyond the basic contrast slider. Add definition exactly where you want it, whether in the highlights, mid-tones, or shadows.
  • Advanced Dodging and Burning: Brighten or darken with precision. Use tools that dodge only the highlights or burn only the shadows for surgical control over the light.
  • Sculpt the Sky: Enhance clouds, darken the horizon for a grounded composition, or increase sky contrast without affecting the land.
  • Analyze Like a Pro: Apply a Zone System visualization to evaluate tonal balance or use a Print Detail Clipping Warning to identify areas that are too bright or dark to hold detail in a final print.
Software interface with a list of landscape tonal adjustments on a gradient background

Sculpt Light and Shadow

Goal: Refine the light and shadow in your image before making creative color adjustments. Tonal changes affect both color saturation and hue, so addressing tonal structure first gives you more control and leads to cleaner, more predictable results when you adjust color later.

What you’ll do:

  • Targeted Contrast: Move beyond the basic contrast slider. Add definition exactly where you want it, whether in the highlights, mid-tones, or shadows.
  • Advanced Dodging and Burning: Brighten or darken with precision. Use tools that dodge only the highlights or burn only the shadows for surgical control over the light.
  • Sculpt the Sky: Enhance clouds, darken the horizon for a grounded composition, or increase sky contrast without affecting the land.
  • Analyze Like a Pro: Apply a Zone System visualization to evaluate tonal balance or use a Print Detail Clipping Warning to identify areas that are too bright or dark to hold detail in a final print.
Software interface with a list of landscape tonal adjustments on a gradient background
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🎨 Rethink Color Adjustments

Create Harmonious and Vibrant Colors

Goal: Make precise, targeted color adjustments to shape the visual character of your image and create a cohesive, natural palette. With your tonal structure already established, you can focus entirely on creative color work.

What you’ll do:

  • Evaluate Color Flow: Similar to analyzing composition in black and white, use a blur tool to simplify the image so you can see how colors interact as abstract shapes. This helps guide intentional color choices.
  • Solve Common Problems: Address frequent landscape issues such as overly bright “neon” greens in foliage, rescuing detail in brightly colored flowers, or making fall colors pop with richness and depth.
  • Master Saturation: Move beyond the global Vibrance slider. Use targeted masks to revive muted tones or control oversaturated areas with precision.
  • Creative Color Grading: Add subtle warmth to highlights, apply nuanced color grading beyond the standard panel, or use the Color Dodge tool to apply both light and color at the same time.
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Create Harmonious and Vibrant Colors

Goal: Make precise, targeted color adjustments to shape the visual character of your image and create a cohesive, natural palette. With your tonal structure already established, you can focus entirely on creative color work.

What you’ll do:

  • Evaluate Color Flow: Similar to analyzing composition in black and white, use a blur tool to simplify the image so you can see how colors interact as abstract shapes. This helps guide intentional color choices.
  • Solve Common Problems: Address frequent landscape issues such as overly bright “neon” greens in foliage, rescuing detail in brightly colored flowers, or making fall colors pop with richness and depth.
  • Master Saturation: Move beyond the global Vibrance slider. Use targeted masks to revive muted tones or control oversaturated areas with precision.
  • Creative Color Grading: Add subtle warmth to highlights, apply nuanced color grading beyond the standard panel, or use the Color Dodge tool to apply both light and color at the same time.
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🔍 Rethink Detail Adjustments

Enhance Texture and Clarity

Goal: Selectively enhance texture, sharpness, and microcontrast for a clean, crisp final image. This step prevents the globally over-processed look by applying detail adjustments only where they are needed most.

What you’ll do:

  • Targeted Noise Reduction: Reduce noise exactly where it appears, such as in smooth sky areas or deep shadows, without softening important details elsewhere in the image.
  • Intelligent Clarity and Microcontrast: Add definition to mid-tones and enhance microcontrast to bring out fine textures, or paint clarity specifically onto highlights to emphasize areas touched by light.
  • Advanced Sharpening: Select a sharpening style that suits your image — the “Artifact-Free” option for clean, natural results or the “High Detail” option for maximum crispness. Apply extra sharpening only to your main subjects for precise visual impact.
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Enhance Texture and Clarity

Goal: Selectively enhance texture, sharpness, and microcontrast for a clean, crisp final image. This step prevents the globally over-processed look by applying detail adjustments only where they are needed most.

What you’ll do:

  • Targeted Noise Reduction: Reduce noise exactly where it appears, such as in smooth sky areas or deep shadows, without softening important details elsewhere in the image.
  • Intelligent Clarity and Microcontrast: Add definition to mid-tones and enhance microcontrast to bring out fine textures, or paint clarity specifically onto highlights to emphasize areas touched by light.
  • Advanced Sharpening: Select a sharpening style that suits your image — the “Artifact-Free” option for clean, natural results or the “High Detail” option for maximum crispness. Apply extra sharpening only to your main subjects for precise visual impact.
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✨ Rethink Effects

Add Atmosphere and Style

Goal: Go beyond foundational adjustments to give your image a distinct artistic signature. This is the stage where you enhance atmosphere, mood, and visual depth with creative effects that fully express your vision.

What you’ll do:

  • Paint with Light: Extend your dodging and burning skills by adding realistic, warm sunlight with the “Add Light” brush or removing light from targeted areas with the “Remove Light” brush for precise control.
  • Craft the Atmosphere: Introduce believable fog, create dramatic sunbeams, or choose from glows such as Luminous, Twilight, and Desert Glow. You can also emulate atmospheric perspective to increase depth in your scene.
  • Apply Signature Styles: Instantly add signature effects, including multiple versions of the Orton effect (with options to protect fine details or affect only the sky), a soft “Painterly” style, or a moody “Silvery” moonlight look.
  • Dramatic Enhancements: Develop compelling low-key or high-key images, or enhance skies to be more dramatic and visually striking as the final touch to your composition.
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Add Atmosphere and Style

Goal: Go beyond foundational adjustments to give your image a distinct artistic signature. This is the stage where you enhance atmosphere, mood, and visual depth with creative effects that fully express your vision.

What you’ll do:

  • Paint with Light: Extend your dodging and burning skills by adding realistic, warm sunlight with the “Add Light” brush or removing light from targeted areas with the “Remove Light” brush for precise control.
  • Craft the Atmosphere: Introduce believable fog, create dramatic sunbeams, or choose from glows such as Luminous, Twilight, and Desert Glow. You can also emulate atmospheric perspective to increase depth in your scene.
  • Apply Signature Styles: Instantly add signature effects, including multiple versions of the Orton effect (with options to protect fine details or affect only the sky), a soft “Painterly” style, or a moody “Silvery” moonlight look.
  • Dramatic Enhancements: Develop compelling low-key or high-key images, or enhance skies to be more dramatic and visually striking as the final touch to your composition.
List of landscape effects with checkboxes on a dark gray background
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✂️ Rethink Selections

Craft Custom Masks for Ultimate Control

Goal: Give you the precise, powerful building blocks behind the entire Rethink system. While most presets in the toolkit already include these selections, this section provides perfectly refined masks so you can create entirely custom adjustments from scratch.

What you’ll do:

  • Access Instant Luminosity Masks: Create refined selections for Lights, Darks, and Mid-tones instantly. Achieve the same targeted control photographers often build manually in Photoshop, all with a single click inside Lightroom.
  • Perfect Sky and Land Selections: Improve on Lightroom’s default AI Sky tool with masks that offer superior feathering for a smooth, natural transition between sky and land.
  • Target by Depth: Select the Foreground, Mid-ground, or Background of your image instantly, allowing you to adjust elements based on their position in the scene.
  • Smart AI Selections: Use one-click AI-powered masks for common landscape elements such as Water, Vegetation, Mountains, and Natural Ground, ready for precise custom edits.
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Craft Custom Masks for Ultimate Control

Goal: Give you the precise, powerful building blocks behind the entire Rethink system. While most presets in the toolkit already include these selections, this section provides perfectly refined masks so you can create entirely custom adjustments from scratch.

What you’ll do:

  • Access Instant Luminosity Masks: Create refined selections for Lights, Darks, and Mid-tones instantly. Achieve the same targeted control photographers often build manually in Photoshop, all with a single click inside Lightroom.
  • Perfect Sky and Land Selections: Improve on Lightroom’s default AI Sky tool with masks that offer superior feathering for a smooth, natural transition between sky and land.
  • Target by Depth: Select the Foreground, Mid-ground, or Background of your image instantly, allowing you to adjust elements based on their position in the scene.
  • Smart AI Selections: Use one-click AI-powered masks for common landscape elements such as Water, Vegetation, Mountains, and Natural Ground, ready for precise custom edits.
Menu or settings panel with various landscape resources and learning options on a gradient background.
Presets menu with various options on a dark background
List of Rethink Landscape Style Launch settings with various options on a dark background
Software interface with a list of landscape tonal adjustments on a gradient background
Color adjustment panel with various options on a dark background
Presets menu with various adjustment options on a gradient background
List of landscape effects with checkboxes on a dark gray background
Menu or settings panel with various landscape resources and learning options on a gradient background.

Your Starting Point, Perfected

Sculpt with Light and Shadow

Take control with precision. Advanced dodge and burn tools let you brighten highlights, deepen shadows, or adjust contrast in mid-tones. This allows you to paint focus and depth exactly where you want it.

An example of a landscape before it was edited with the dodge and burn presets in Rethink Landscape
Landscape photo edited with Rethink Landscape presets using powerful Dodging and Burning tools to brush in light

The Signature Orton Glow

Add a dreamy glow with intention. My Orton effect targets highlights, creating a natural, soft bloom without compromising shadow detail. No muddy results.

A landscape image of sand dunes before applying the Orton Effect Lightroom Preset from the Rethink Landscape presets pack
A landscape image of sand dunes after applying the Orton Effect Lightroom Preset from the Rethink Landscape presets pack

Reveal the Bones of Your Composition

Strong composition is everything. A unique evaluation preset simplifies your image into tone and form, removing color and detail so you can clearly see the skeleton of your scene.

A before example of the Rethink Presets before blurring for composition evaluation
An image that has been blurred and made monochrome using the Rethink Landscape presets to help evaluate the composition

Choose Your Transformation

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Rethink Landscape Toolkit

THE SYSTEM: A Smarter Way to Edit

Get the revolutionary landscape editing system built on my 7-step Rethink methodology. This hands-on Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw toolkit is for photographers who want to move beyond generic presets and gain precise, creative control over every image.

  • A Complete Toolkit: 100+ crafted presets, AI masks, and brushes tailored for real-world landscape editing.
  • A Proven Workflow: A step-by-step roadmap from raw file to refined image.
  • Achieve Professional Results, Faster: Elevate your edits in less time with more creative freedom.
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Rethink Landscape Processing Course + Toolkit

THE COURSE: Master the 'Why' Behind the 'How'

For those who want to go deeper, the Rethink Landscape Course is the definitive learning experience. You don’t just get the tools—you get the entire philosophy, explained by me, David Kingham. Internalize the methodology to unlock a lifetime of creative growth.

  • Includes Everything in the Toolkit, PLUS:
  • In-Depth Video Lessons: Learn the artistic philosophy behind every tool from me directly.
  • Start-to-Finish Case Studies: Watch me edit, explain decisions, and reveal workflow nuances.
  • Develop True Artistry: Move from settings-driven edits to seeing and thinking like an artist.

Rethink Landscape Course

Rethink Landscape Toolkit

Complete Rethink Preset Toolkit (100+ Lightroom & Adobe Camera Raw presets, masks, and brushes)

Quick Start Video Guide

Priority Email & Community Support

Technical Support

Installation & File Support

Private Course Community

Community Access

Toolkit Support Forum

The 7-Step Workflow Training

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Start-to-Finish Editing Case Studies

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Preset Customization Mastery

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Direct Q&A with David Kingham

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$197 (includes toolkit)

Your Investment

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Rethink Landscape Toolkit: Lightroom Presets & Course

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The 7-Step System for Creative Control and Workflow Efficiency

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Frequently Asked Questions

Think of it as the difference between having the tools and learning the complete process.

  • The Rethink Toolkit: A professional set of Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw presets built around the 7-step Rethink workflow. You get over 100 tools for precise tonal, color, detail, and creative adjustments, designed for photographers who want structure and flexibility.
  • The Rethink Course: Everything in the toolkit plus in-depth training. You will learn the why behind each step, see full start-to-finish edits, and understand how to apply the methodology to develop your own personal editing style.

The full preset toolkit is included with the course.

No. These are not one-click filters. They’re modular tools you stack and customize. You’ll get the most out of them if you already have a basic understanding of Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw.

If you’re newer to editing, the course walks you through every step so you can use the system effectively and start building confidence right away.

For the best experience, use Lightroom Classic version 14 or newer. This ensures compatibility with all the AI-powered masking tools and adaptive presets.

The system also works with:

  • Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom CC (Desktop)
  • Lightroom Mobile (presets can be synced, but detailed editing is best on desktop)

If you’re using an older version of Lightroom, most tools will still work, but the newest AI features may be unavailable.

Windows Users: The toolkit is fully functional. A known display issue causes custom icons to appear in black and white or not at all, but this does not affect how the tools work.

The Toolkit runs inside Lightroom Classic, Lightroom (CC), or Adobe Camera Raw. If your computer meets Adobe’s minimum specs, it will run — but since the Toolkit uses masking heavily, faster hardware makes a big difference.

What’s the minimum hardware I need?

  • RAM: 8 GB (absolute minimum)
  • CPU: Quad-core, 2 GHz or faster
  • GPU: 2 GB VRAM, supports DirectX 12 / Metal
  • Storage:SSD strongly recommended, 20 GB free space

What hardware do you recommend for smooth performance?

  • RAM: 16–32 GB (32 GB if you use lots of masks or very high-MP files)
  • CPU: 6–8 cores with high clock speed (Intel i7/i9, AMD Ryzen 7/9, Apple M-series chips)
  • GPU: Mid-range or better with 4–8 GB VRAM (NVIDIA RTX 3060+, AMD RX 6600+, Apple Silicon integrated GPUs perform well)
  • Storage: Fast internal NVMe SSD for catalog, previews, and cache; external SSD fine for photo storage

Yes. In fact, that’s the whole idea. Every preset is a starting point meant to be adjusted, combined, and fine-tuned for your image and your style.

Lightroom’s masking isn’t quite as surgical as Photoshop’s channel-based luminosity masks, but the Rethink system’s built-in masks are highly refined. They give you precise tonal control for most editing situations without leaving Lightroom.

  • Toolkit Buyers: A full user guide and technical support for installation and file-related issues.
  • Course Students: Everything above, plus priority email support and access to the private course community for feedback, Q&A, and creative discussion.

When you purchase, you’ll get login details right away. You have lifetime access to stream all lessons online, 24/7, on any device with an internet connection. The videos are not available for download.

Yes. All minor updates and bug fixes are included. Major version updates with new tools or significant new content may have a small upgrade fee.

Yes. The Rethink system uses AI-powered masks, adaptive presets that intelligently target skies, foliage, water, and more, plus tools tuned for HDR displays. The workflow is built to take advantage of Adobe’s most advanced technology.

Yes. The presets can be synced to Lightroom Mobile or the Lightroom app on iPad through your Adobe account. However, for the most precise editing and full access to the workflow, we recommend using Lightroom Classic or Adobe Camera Raw on desktop.

Yes. While the toolkit is designed with color landscapes in mind, many of the tonal, detail, and masking tools work beautifully for black and white editing. We also have a dedicated Rethink Monochrome product in development for those who specialize in black and white landscapes.

The system was designed for landscapes, but the tonal, detail, and masking tools can be applied to many subjects. For example, the dodge and burn tools, clarity adjustments, and color refinements can work well for portraits, architecture, and other styles.

It’s a one-time purchase. You get lifetime access to the toolkit or course you buy, along with all minor updates at no extra cost.

Yes. As long as both computers are for your personal use, you can install the presets on multiple devices. Simply sync or copy the preset files to each system where you run Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw.

No, the core presets work entirely offline once installed. However, certain Lightroom features that the toolkit uses — such as AI-powered masks and adaptive presets — require an active internet connection because Adobe processes them through its cloud services. Internet is also required for downloading the toolkit initially, syncing with Lightroom Mobile, or streaming the course content.

Yes. We have a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If you try the toolkit or course and feel it hasn’t improved your editing process, we’ll issue a full refund.

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Keith Lisk
Totally changed my workflow

I've never been a big fan of presets, preferring to make my own decisions for every adjustment slider and function in Lightroom...until now. Over the many years of following David's post processing techniques, I have gradually improved my Lightroom processing abilities; however, these new Rethink Landscapes presets have totally changed my workflow. I am now returning to old images and reprocessing them, with results that I could not have achieved on my own. These presets are now an essential part of my post processing workflow. Here are a couple of before/after examples of images that were processed using the presets in Lightroom only - no Photoshop processing was necessary. I highly recommend downloading these presets and checking them out.

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lore m dickey
New life in processing

I consider myself a novice in Lightroom but this toolkit takes my skills to a whole new level. I am still nervous about local adjustments because I just do not feel confident of my brush skills. Only practice will help that!

David has not only provided myriad tools for editing photos he also takes you behind the scene to tell you how he created the tool allowing the user additional flexibility for their specific photo. Genius!

I am looking forward to breathing new life into photos that have been sitting in my catalog waiting for attention. I also look forward to reworking images that I have already processed to bring new life to the images.

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David from RedmondO
Raise your processing to a higher level

I’ve been to over a dozen workshops with various leaders all of whom have done a session on postprocessing. This is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to spend organized hours on postprocessing and adopt a much more organized approach. I’ve spent 1-2 hour sessions several times a week over the past couple of weeks watching the videos and working on a series of my own landscape images. David carefully explains the logic behind the tools and the order in which they should be used. They are remarkably good tools but the choice and application of these tools is totally up to the photographer, so it’s not a post-processing cookbook. It takes time and practice to figure out how best to use these tools. It has transformed my post processing and I have been delighted with the results I’ve been able to attain in this relatively short time.

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JohnnyBeGood
A companion to LR landscape users

This course as well as the Rethink Toolkit are a must for Landscape photographers. I don't say that lightly . I thought I knew LRC fairly well....well, not really. I was just barely scratching the surface. The videos are amazing and the explanations are spot on. Like David has stated these are not presets as we have all known them previously, but more like starting points. You can adapt the system to your own style. Technical questions are answered promptly. This program has my highest rating and well worth your time. I soon may find that Photoshop is a distant memory.

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Mary Brisson
A New Outlook for My Photography

So often, my trial-and-error efforts in Lightroom have left my final images short of what I imagined they could be, my morale in negative territory and, lately, declining.

Now, having followed the Rethink course from beginning to end, with the toolkit at hand, I feel re-energized and empowered. I'm thinking about reviving images I've left languishing in my catalog because I couldn't make them sing. Even better, I'm thinking about scenes that I can't wait to revisit because now I know I can handle them.

I strongly recommend using both the Rethink toolkit and the course together. The course offers pathways to turning a RAW file into a work of personal expression, *and* at each step David has assembled a combination of tools you can work with to realize that expressive intention. (Tools I would never have put together or even discovered, btw.) He explains why and when and how you might choose to use each one; you remain fully in control of every component of every tool, to modify it as you think best for any of your images.

I sampled some of the presets before seeing them in context of the course, and I see now that the course is essential to best use of the toolkit. The course both lays out a workflow that supports the most effective use of the toolkit, and shows how each element can work as an instrument of personal artistry.

Kudos and gratitude to David for the investment of time it must have taken to make Lightroom do all it can do, and for sharing it with all of us.

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