Hi everyone!
I hope you've had a great Christmas Eve. As always I'm the one who seems to be missing on every photograph from Christmas. I guess it's my own fault when I choose to stand behind the camera :-) Anyway, I thought I just had to give you a little Christmas gift before the year ends. Here it is, a new preset called "PH Christmas Tree". As you can see it intensifies the green colors and adds a little more contrast to the photo...
This preset is from the Wonderland Presets 3.0 collection. Nate who is the founder of Wonderland sent me this preset to be exclusively downloadable here at Presetsheaven. As many of you already know, Nate has been a great contributor to my site since I started it. If you're a preset fan yourself and think you have a preset that others will like, don'thesitate to send it to me and I'll make sure the rest of the world will find it :-)
Now lets continue with the preset from Wonderland...
The name of the preset is "Creative Catalyst 1" and it's a color desaturation preset that works great on portraits.
Since I started using Lightroom I more often have a look at my old holiday photos. I believe the reason is because I like to play/experiment with them. Earlier I used Photoshop for this, but using "actions" in Photoshop is quite time-consuming since the only way of seeing an effect is to first apply it. If you know exactly what your action does, it works great though. If I'm just going to play with a particular photo, Photoshop would still be a good choice, but when it comes to multiple images...no thank you. With Lightroom I find it so easy to play with my photos because of the sweet live-preview function. Without it I really don't think I would spend as much time in Lightroom as I do.
Tonight I found some of my city-shots from a holiday in Firenze. It ended up with this new preset called "PH In the city".
I've just updated the layout of presetsheaven.com once again. This time I've added a couple of nice features that I hope You all will like.
From now on I will highlight featured content such as popular articles and presets at the main page. This will give you a great overview of what you can find in my "candybox".
Sitting here with my laptop in my knees as I’ve done so many nights before:-) I Connected my 1TB external disk and opened Lightroom without any idéas on what to do. After playing around with the adjustments for some time…
It’s not the first time I publish presets from MikeyG. He just sent me his latest bundle of presets. His previous film emulation presets has been very popular out there and this time you won’t be disappointed either. All 12…
How can you success making better looking photos?
Step one to success - Digital cameras and big memory cards
Get a big memory card for your camera. In the old days you had to think carefully when to press the button or not. You had to make a choice if the motive in front of you was worthy enough to be put in an album or not. After all you just had 24 or 36 frames per film roll.
With a digital camera and Lightroom, everyone can be a pro.
Ever wanted to take those fantastic photos you see in magazines or on professional photographers' websites? Well now you can. All you need is a good digital camera, a big memory card and suitable software like Adobe Lightroom.
It's time for a new preset. This time I've made one that might make your photos look sterile or medical, if you know what I mean. It will boost the contrast, fade the colors and apply a blue tone to the shadows and a touch of beige to the highlights. I also added some vignettes to add some depth to the photo. I sure like the feeling of it and I hope you will as well. Happy downloading until we "meet" again.
It's a new week and why not start it with a preset? Today I was looking at some pictures from my last vacation in Firenze (Italy) 2008. From the hotel room I took some photos of the environment outside. There were lots of roofs and a blue sky out there.
Every time I start playing around in Lightroom with some photos, I notice they all can be improved in some way. This time one of my photos looked a bit faded and had a dull sky and an overall gray feeling. So I created this new preset that I call "PH Intensive Heaven", but as you can see it intensify more than just the blue colors :-)