I don’t think there is a more valuable tool in my digital darkroom than Adobe Lightroom. I’m using release 3.2 these days.
A couple of weeks ago I had serious problems with my laptop. A corrupt user profile – if you’ve ever had to deal with that issue, you know how frustrated I was with that! However, to try to find a positive slant to this, it did require me to reload a few things. I guess once you get things set the way you want, it is easy to forget that there are other settings or opportunities available.
Today I reloaded some free presets for Lightroom developed by Photoshop Guru Jack Davis. I was fortunate to see him speak a couple of years ago at Photoshop World in Orlando. Anyways, what a great pack of tools AND you can’t beat the price. I downloaded the presets from the onOne software site (one of my favorite Photoshop add-on’s.) If you use Lightroom and want to try these yourself, click here.
The photo at the top was achieved by applying three presets called Wow-Antique 1, Wow Antique 2 and Wow-f_Vignette_Lt_07. Finished with a thin black ‘Edge Treatment’ in onOne’s Phototools.
Here is the original and a two additional pre-sets.
Original, c_HSL-Only Brown (Jack Davis preset) and Creamtone (LR preset).
This photo was taken in Custer State Park in South Dakota with a Nikon D300. ISO 200, 1/1600 sec, f/4.0, 55 mm.
She is a beauty with that dof. Love the middle one.
ReplyDeleteNo I have never had a problem like that with my computor that I know of . I have had issues and just have them fixed.
Lightroom 3 and Im wondering how much different it is than the last version. Some say you cant beat it.
Great information. Presets seems easy and I have book marked.
I like the SOOC also.
Nice work.
and thank you. I have alway learned from you.
ReplyDeletecorrupt user profile.. had them hate them.."smile"
ReplyDeleteand right now am not to impressed with this fossil of a computer I am using.. not enough memoire.. can't even use my Adobe photoshop c2.. been wanting to try out lightroom.. hopefully soon.
love the presents here.. really like the middle one..
will check out your link and bookmark it.. thank you.