“Matt’s Surreal Edgy Effect” is a set of 4 free Adobe Lightroom presets for creating a gritty, surreal, dramatic effect in your photos. Matt notes that the final output is “HDR-looking” — this preset tries to draw a lot of range out of your pictures. The 4 different versions of this preset range in output [...]
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Matt’s Surreal Edgy Effect Lightroom Preset
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 by TomLAB Color Enhancement Photoshop Action by Mark J. Sebastian
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 by Tom“LAB Color Enhancement” is a free Adobe Photoshop action by photographer Mark J. Sebastian. Mark’s action converts your image to LAB color mode in order to work the curves, pumping up the colors to “make them pop“.
Matt’s Bleach Bypass Lightroom Presets
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 by Tom“Matt’s Bleach Bypass Presets” are two free Adobe Lightroom presets that give your photos a “Bleach Bypass” effect. According to Matt, a Bleach Bypass is “basically like putting a black and white image over a color image”. Saturation is reduced, contrast is increased and the exposure is slightly nudged up to create a bit of [...]
Monochrome Lightroom Presets by 640Pixels.com
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 by Tom“Monochrome Presets for Lightroom” is a set of four free black & white monochrome presets for Adobe Lightroom. The author notes that these presets are especially well suited for landscape photos:
I tested these presets on a wide range of photos. As with real life monochrome – they are best suited to landscapes. They don’t seem [...]
Black & White and Split Tone Presets by 640 pixels
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 by Tom“Free Adobe Lightroom Presets by 640Pixels.com” is a set of 15 free presets for Adobe Lightroom. The collection is based on three black & white presets, for each of which there are an additional four split tone variations.
Link via “My Workflow | Part 4: Processing” by Phill Price | Photography.
Huge Collection of Photoshop Actions
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 by Tom“The Ultimate Collection of Useful Photoshop Actions” by Jacob Gube at Smashing Magazine is a giant list of links to various Photoshop actions for photographers. Present in this list are a variety of interesting effects ranging from color enhancements to HDR to simulations of various brands of film. I processed the photo you see above [...]