This is convenience as confidence. It flattens hours of trial into a single tasteful decision. But convenience isn’t blandness — on the contrary, it’s a palette for speed. In the hands of someone who knows what they want, the presets become a suite of costumes. A photograph steps onto the stage and instantly takes on a role. There’s alchemy here: algorithms acting like almanacs of taste. Each preset encodes innumerable tiny judgments — how much teal to let in the shadows, where skin tones should sit, whether highlights should bloom. These are not random choices; they are curated histories of aesthetics distilled into code.