Lightroom presets are a funny thing. Some people love them and some people hate them. The problem with Lightroom presets are the ease of creating overly dramatic effects that can ruin a photograph. The trick is to create presets that have the ability to create subtle effects and local adjustments so the end-user (photographer) has the most control over his/her … [Read more...]
Win a Complete Set of Instamatic Presets for Lightroom
This week we have a brilliant little give away for one lucky reader. Lightroom presets have given us a copy of their brilliant Instamatic preset packs to give away worth $25. The Instamatic presets for Lightroom are presets that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past. Every preset will change your lens, flash, or … [Read more...]
The Growing list of Aperture Presets
Yesterday we posted our growing list of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom presets and today we thought we would offer the same for our Apple Aperture users. Personally speaking I use both Lightroom and Aperture for different things as both are excellent applications, actually I my perfect application would be a mix of both...... Developer presets is a reasonably new concept in … [Read more...]
Designing Emulation Presets for Lightroom (Download)
Hello, allow me to introduce myself briefly. I am Michael from LifeInDigitalFilm and X-Equals. I am a hybrid photographer; shooting both digital and film, and I combine both into the same Lightroom workflow. My experience with film leads me to excel at emulating the look of film in Lightroom, creating presets designed for a RAW, digital workflow. When we at X-equals release … [Read more...]
Managing Presets in Aperture 3
If you find you are making the same type of adjustments to photographs on a regular basis then saving the action as a preset is a useful way to speed up your post production workflow. Alternatively if you are only starting out using Aperture for your photo management processing then pre-made adjustment presets are a great way to learn how to develop your RAW photographs to … [Read more...]