Picnik // Lightroom3

[Stacy ♥ DOF]

Okay....I used to LOVE using Picnik because it is so easy to do so many cool things with photos very quickly. I am using Adobe Lightroom 3 now, and it has a few really great preset filters on it, but I cannot for the life of me get something that resembles the 1960's Picnik filter. Has anyone figured it out, or maybe someone knows just by looking??

Here is a raw pic, and the one underneath has the 1960's filter from Picnik applied. (this isn't a photo that I specifically wanted to use the filter on, just looked for a simple one to do an example with)





Any help would be great. I'm trying to stick to lightroom and photoshop CS5 so I can keep the full quality of the image while editing instead of having to compress to jpg during the process. Thanks!! :D

[Tricia]

Try old age or bleached presets

[Stacy ♥ DOF]

@polkadotfun I've tried those some, but the pink and brown tones just aren't the same. The background of this shot is snow, and no matter what I do, it's just white, or everything in the photo goes with it when I change the hue. I guess it is probably going to take some filters then some layers in photoshop??

[Christina Lovelock]

You can download free presets off of the internet, just google "lightroom 3 presets".

[Stacy ♥ DOF]

@christabug Whaaaaaat! That's the best news I've heard all day. :) thanks! Not sure why I didn't think of that. duh. :DD

[Stacy ♥ DOF]

@christabug Awesome. thank you so much, really. I may sit at my computer for the next 24 hours straight. :)

[Don Marsh]

Glad you are enjoying LR SPace - it's my favorite piece of software EVER!! :) It's so powerful, and just feels right for photographers. Of course, with that power comes a much higher learning curve. I'm pretty good at using it for very general editing, but I have not quite managed to come up with some "creative edit" settings of my own.

But Christina is right, the ability to save and import presets is one of the best things about LR. There are TONS available, some free, many not.

Here is a website with an extensive list of free presets:
http://www.prophotoshow.net/2007/11/09/lightroom-presets-the-ultimate-free-list

Here are some really great presets from some really well known guys in the Photoshop community (this is also listed in the site above):

http://lightroomkillertips.com/category/presets

[Stacy ♥ DOF]

@fallingwaters Thanks, Don! I am loving it :)) I found a couple of good ones, and I will check out the links you posted. Awesome!!

[Kirsty McLaughlan]

Can these presets be used on the CS5 RAW editor at all?

[LisLee]

I don't use light room, but Aperture has something that is called color monochrome. So it turns the photo black and white, but then you can pick a color to tint the b&w. That looks like what the filter in picnik did. Although the picnik photo looks more sepia with a tint that black and white.. or alternatively you could change the white balance, and then add a tint. I'm assuming Light Room has these features, since Aperture does, and I'm also assuming Light Room to be more powerful.