Archive for the ‘Lightroom Presets’ Category
Posterize Preset
July 21st, 2009 | Author: albert
This is a preset that turns all pixels to either black or white. That’s right, there are no shades of grey.
The effect can be pretty cool and was particularly popular in the seventies posters. The baby boomers among us will recall posters that used this effect. Remember the posters of Che Guevara and Jim Morrison of the Doors? However, today, this treatment can still be very effective.
This preset accomplishes this look through the use of another unusual tone curve (see my Steel and Polarize presets).
As you can see, this tonecurve clips the highlights and shadows equally, allowing really only two colors. By turning the picture into a grey scale picture, those two colors become Black and White.
This effect is seen here:
By playing with the “exposure” slider, you can shift the point at which black becomes white and vise versa. See these samples where the exposure was shifted +/– 0.4 EVs
This preset is available as a free download. Have fun and leave me a comment if you like it. Even better, send me a link to samples you have used this preset on. I always love to see what other people do with my presets.
Download this preset Posterize Preset (474)
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Warming preset
October 5th, 2008 | Author: albert
This is a set of 2 presets with a wonderful warming effect. The resulting warm look is further enhanced with a vignette.The preset works equally well with JPEGs and Raws.
As the name implies, it adjusts the white balance to add a wonderful warm tone to the image. It “tightens up” the dynamic range by applying a little fill light and recovery, boosts the saturation and then “sharpens” the overall image by using a combination of Clarity (mid-tone contrast enhancement) and sharpen sliders.
There are two presets in this pack. A “regular” version and a “lite” version which just adds a little less of the warming effect.
Check it out.
Original Image with cool tones
Warm Vignette
Warm Vignette Lite
Download: Warming Vignette (8740)
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Managing Develop Presets
September 27th, 2008 | Author: albert
One of Lightroom’s great productivity features is the ability to save your post processing work as a preset, allowing you to use the same settings time and time again on different photos.
However, over time, as you collect more and more presets, your preset panel can grow to unmanageable proportions. Time to get organized by creating preset folders into which you can organize your own presets or import presets downloaded from the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »
Free Solarize Lightroom Preset
September 27th, 2008 | Author: albert
This is an unusual, but fun preset.
It creates an effect similar to leaking light into a canister of exposed film. Some areas of the exposure turn negative, some remain unaffected. However, unlike with film, this preset lets you further adjust the effect so you can get just the look you like. It opens up a new creative and fun way to process your images. Read the rest of this entry »
Zero preset
September 5th, 2008 | Author: albert
This is a very simple, but very useful preset. It sets all values back to their “0″ position, acting as a “Reset To Zero Button”.
It is extremely handy when you’ve been experimenting and have adjusted a whole bunch of sliders. Rather than re-visiting each slider to set them back, you can use this preset. Note that this is not necessarily the same as using the Reset function in the Develop module, simply because the default settings of some sliders are not zero.
Download it and add to your arsenal of presets.
Download: Zero Preset (1047)
Tonemapping with Lightroom
March 27th, 2008 | Author: albert
Here is a fun preset that mimics the look of heavily tonemapped HDR images. Lightroom, of course, cannot create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images in the true sense of the word, but with some effort great effects can be accomplished.
The Steel Preset
Steel is a set of 3 presets (Dark, Medium and Light). This preset is kind of special, as it uses a non-standard tonecurve. In tact, it’s a tone curve that you cannot create using Lightroom’s own user interface. Instead, this tonecurve was created by editing the preset file with an external editor and plotting the curve coordinates manually.
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