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Quick Tutorial on Making Adobe Lightroom Presets

Tom — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:33:47 +0000

“Creating Adobe Lightroom Presets” by Christina Nichole for Digital Photography School is a quick rundown of the process necessary to create your own presets in Adobe Lightroom. Basically you make some changes to an image, hit the button to add a preset, and check off which adjustments you wish to include in the preset. Next time you need to make those adjustments you save time by just running that preset instead of going through all the individual adjustments.

A lot of photographers post their presets online, and many of them are generous enough to give them away for free. Our Totally Sweet Presets Directory is a new, growing, search-able index of free presets and actions for Lightroom, Photoshop and other post processing software tools.

Photo by Garrulus used under a Creative Commons license.

Matt’s Surreal Edgy Effect Lightroom Preset

Tom — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:16:29 +0000

“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 from very light to extremely dark.

Link via “My Workflow | Part 4: Processing” by Phill Price Photography.

LAB Color Enhancement Photoshop Action by Mark J. Sebastian

Tom — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:28:26 +0000

“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

Tom — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:45:38 +0000

“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 a “blown out” look.

Link via “My Workflow | Part 4: Processing” by Phill Price Photography.

Monochrome Lightroom Presets by 640Pixels.com

Tom — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:12:03 +0000

“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 to work that well for people, but for scenery and landscapes they are simply awesome.

Black & White and Split Tone Presets by 640 pixels

Tom — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:11:26 +0000

“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.