I know there have been several discussions about presets for lightroom, but this discussion is to talk about and share presets that you have created yourself! I love creating my own, and am happy to share. :)
If you don't know how to create your own preset in Lightroom:
1. Do all of your adjustments to your photograph.
2. Go to DEVELOP menu at choose "new preset"
3. Check the list for the actions you want to save (ie, you may not want the lens correction as part of your preset because you don't always have to do that to a photo) & name your preset, and hit "Create"
Your preset will be saved in your presets pane on the left (I always save under "User Presets") If you want to share your files, you right click on the preset in your left-hand pane, and choose EXPORT. The file type will be .lrtemplate.
I found mediafire.com yesterday which is a free file sharing site - you can upload your files there and give people the link that comes up when you click "SHARE".
Here are mine so far that I have uploaded, I plan to get some more up over the weekend. :)
http://www.mediafire.com/?txfe0ckhqf0s5
An example of my Delicious Chocolate preset (some details about best type of photo to use is in the description)
An example of my Green-Purple Split preset (some details about best type of photo to use is in the description)
If you want to share your own presets, please do so here, and an example image from your project would be great! :)
Well I'm not sure how to make a macro in excel either! I haven't really looked into it fully because I don't feel like I have done anything that I really want to keep yet. As far as I know, though, you have to record it while you do it.....can't just add it up after the fact and save it. LR got it right there.
The Jazz Age is a split tone sepia look that was created to emulate the look in Alfred Cheney Johnston's Jazz Age Beauties. It works best with studio lighting. Once you apply the preset, tweak the exposure and brightness to achieve the skin tone you want. It has a tiny bit of soft vignetting that you can either eliminate or add more. Finally, you can go into the split toning tab and tweak further in which case I recommend starting with the balance and saturations before bumping the hues.
The Backlight Edgy preset is for backlit photos (indoor or out) and since it adds a fair amount of contrast, I think it works best on males and pets, but try it on females too just in case. Once you click the preset, play with the saturation slider first, then exposure and contrast second and third. I hope you like.
Awesome! This is great to know. I am extremely new to Lightroom, and haven't played around yet. Thanks for sharing yours and I will share mine as I make some. Thank you for sharing!
@bradleynovak in your retrofade preset, what setting in LR is it that gives the smoky overlay look? i know how to do it in PS with offset increase, but I dunno how to acheive it in LR.....is it just a combination of things?
I love, love, love lightroom, love it (so much so that I really do not like photoshop anymore). Great job with these preset everyone. Wish I was creative enough to make my own.
@bradleynovak Nice comment Brad. I've worked with Lightroom for awhile now and this tip is great. Like @sdpace mentions, the offset in PS will do this, but using LR with all the other 'front-end' editing one does this could come in handy.
@lindenswhite Ooooo pretty! i like it, lowish contrast, but it works because of your focus. I might rid it of that top right corner that looks vignetty, either with crop or a brush that will clone the lighter color....but it looks great!!
Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to put these presets up. Can anyone advise a computer hack how to get them into lr? Any link you can send me to? Thanks in advance.
@vorka First, open the folder that contains your Lightroom User Presets. It should be in a file in a location similar to mine: C:\Users\htanner\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets\User Presets. Does this make sense? So open that folder. Then when you go to download one of these shared custom presets from the mediafire site, select "Save File" and click OK. Then go back to your window with the open folder for "User Presets" and also bring back up the window with the downloaded custom preset. With these two windows open side by side, you can click and drag the downloaded custom preset and drop it into your "User Preset" folder. You may have to close and re-open Lightroom for the preset to appear in your User Presets in lightroom.
I hope that made sense and wasn't too confusing. Please let me know if you have any questions.
@sdpace Thanks so much to you and everyone else who has shared presets here. I am a complete newb to all this and I'm having trouble with the download. I just get a text window open up?? I have downloaded a couple from other sites and have managed to open them in lightroom, but have no idea what i'm doing with these mediafire files. Can anyone help?? Sorry if I sound like a complete idiot. Clearly I have a lot to learn not only when it comes to photography, but with computers too! :-0
@vorka Thanks for that, but I still can't figure it out. Will stick to the ones that import easily for me for now ;). Thanks for taking the time to reply :)
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I just ordered Lightroom, and will, like PS, have to teach myself everything, as I am to cheap to spend money for a class.
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A soft muted black and white: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ksvn81af7f8sjp
A retro faded look, colors are still saturated: http://www.mediafire.com/?ccplofclnfn23bh
Gold split tone with a bit of red: http://www.mediafire.com/?ss3fhbs15g8n3p0
DEMAND I SAY =)
The Jazz Age is a split tone sepia look that was created to emulate the look in Alfred Cheney Johnston's Jazz Age Beauties. It works best with studio lighting. Once you apply the preset, tweak the exposure and brightness to achieve the skin tone you want. It has a tiny bit of soft vignetting that you can either eliminate or add more. Finally, you can go into the split toning tab and tweak further in which case I recommend starting with the balance and saturations before bumping the hues.
The Backlight Edgy preset is for backlit photos (indoor or out) and since it adds a fair amount of contrast, I think it works best on males and pets, but try it on females too just in case. Once you click the preset, play with the saturation slider first, then exposure and contrast second and third. I hope you like.
That was easy.
I hope that made sense and wasn't too confusing. Please let me know if you have any questions.