Lightroom Presets

RoryW

I have finally started to read a book I bought a few months ago called "The Adobe Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby.

Looking through it has been interesting including the ability to install presets into Lightroom. Apologises if this is old hat to you all but I found it interesting and have had fun playing around with it.

Looking around the web I then came across this link which lists websites where various presets can be downloaded.

So far I have looked at Inside Lightroom and had fun playing around with these presets.

I have posted the same photo adjusted for the presets into a flickr set

effect of Lightroom presets on a photo


(...and yes, I know he should have straightened his tie in the photo:) but I was only using the photo to play around with)

p.s thanks to my work colleague Damian who posed for this photo and now is unwttingly on flickr !

bradnailer

Thanks,very interesting

liamtinney

Is Lightroom for Raw only or does it do Jpegs as well

nilhg

liamtinney wrote: »

Is Lightroom for Raw only or does it do Jpegs as well

Both, but the amount of latitude you have to adjust with jpegs is less, (hardly surprising since the camera has already applied some development).

The other modules will work almost exactly the same.

Bui

liamtinney wrote: »

Is Lightroom for Raw only or does it do Jpegs as well

Lightroom is probably one of the better programs for editing and processing your photos, unless you're looking to heavily ps your images of course. If its just adjustments like highlights, shaddows, cropping, straightening, wb, redeye, saturation, curves etc etc you're making, its far easier and quicker. I know a few friends have found it a little slow to get used to, once you get your head around the shortcuts its invaluable

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/keyboard_shortcuts.html
http://www.photoshopusersgroup.com/PDF/lightroomKBSC.pdf

mikeanywhere

It's amazing how the good old normal Joe Public is able to offer some decent presets now for free, thanks for sharing!!

nilhg

mikeanywhere wrote: »

It's amazing how the good old normal Joe Public is able to offer some decent presets now for free, thanks for sharing!!

We should also give a pat on the back to the folks at adobe, it looks like LR was built to allow easy sharing of presets and also web galleries, theres some nice stuff on here.

PaulieC

my favourite LR preset is the 300. You need to pull back the pretty heavy vignetting sometimes, but it's a great look IMO

mikeanywhere

cambo_gueno wrote: »

my favourite LR preset is the 300.

Likewise, it's a great one indeed!!!

rymus

I wonder if such a thing as copying all these free presets to a local hosting resource and listing them in the darkroom forum would be a runner?

There's nothing more annoying than finding a dead link...

If peoples favorite presents (or actions) were hosted by one of our own and direct links were made available there'd be no fear of dead links or inaccessible pages

PaulieC

it's a lot of hassle, Rymus, for someone to do that. They're actually easy enough to find if you just search for 'Lightroom Presets' in Live or Yahoo...

rymus

you underestimate how lazy I am...

PaulieC

rymus wrote: »

you underestimate how lazy I am...

. A fellow traveller...

Cabaal

cambo_gueno wrote: »

. A fellow traveller...

If someone has them I';ll even offer to host them on cabaal.org,