Neil November 24th, 2008
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips » Presets – Deep Blue Sky
1) You’ve got to have some degree of blue in your sky for this to work. Don’t think you can hit a gray overcast sky with this preset and turn it blue. It’s got to be somewhat blue to start with.
2) Anything else that’s blue in the photo is going to be affected so watch out if you’ve got people in there (Thanks Dave Alton for mentioning this in the comments)
3) Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Meaning, your sky may be just fine to start with. These presets will really bring out the blues and if you use them (especially Level 3) on a sky that is already pretty blue it’s going to look fake.
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Blue Skies – Lightroom Preset – $9.00 – Buy and download instantly
Have some images from the summer that you’d like to prepare for an upcoming competion?
Get the most out of your blue colors in Adobe Lightroom presets available for immediate download.
Neil October 14th, 2008
Adobe Exchange – Free Lightroom Develop Preset for a gritty and grungy look
Please take a moment and support Make Light Real by reviewing the free light-room develop preset at the Action Exchange.
Creative blessings
Neil September 27th, 2008
Free Lightroom Brush Presets by Seim; Brush Preset collection
Did you know that in Lightroom2 You can use a brush to make precise corrections, and even have brush presets ready to go to make those corrections easy.
Well I knew about LR brushes, but I had not given enough attention to them until Matt Kloskowski posted up some darken brushes, and got my mind in gear on a great workflow asset.
Here’s a collection of brush presets I made for… Burn, Dodge, Color Boost, Color Drain, Skin Soft, and Detail Boost. Remember that these don’t work the same as my Develop presets. These are for “Brush” settings. If you need to learn how to install them take a look at my Installing Lightroom Brush Presets article. The download is above. Just download unzip and follow the directions.
Neil September 24th, 2008
Lightroom 300 Presets (Download) « mikelao photography
Here’s a fun freebie, with Photoshop Lightroom preset to help you style your images like the “300″ movie
Neil September 23rd, 2008
ONE LIGHTROOM: preset for core workflow
Use the backbone single preset/calibration/baseline starting point for Neil’s custom ONE ACTION workflow, and don’t bother going all the way to Photoshop. Custom dodging and burning can now be done in Lightroom, so if you’re just working in Lightroom start out with the color clarity and expression of Neil’s preset.
The Lightroom preset package includes an XMP file for use with Camera Raw as a preset template or camera calibration to save as a Camera Raw default – which is the same way it should be used in Lightroom.
For best results, apply this preset to all your images, and then progress to standard color correction adjustments of exposure, white balance, and curves. The preset will not alter your color temperature or exposure, but will tweak the host of other settings to bring clarity and a finer balance to your images.
Neil September 3rd, 2008
Photoshop Insider » Getting That Cool Gritty Look Right in Camera Raw and Photoshop or Lightroom
Read the above full explanation, and start with these settings:
- Fill Light = 100%
- Blacks = Test this one to taste: 10-100%
- Contrast = 50-100%
- Clarity = 100%
- Vibrance = 50-100%
- Recovery = 0-100%
- Saturation = -81% rely on your vibrance to color the image and desaturate to get the metallic look.
Download the Photoshop Lightroom Grunge Preset download
Before image on the left. Below, Dark Descent lighting overlays applied to the effect.
Have fun with the preset!
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