Comments on: Everyone can be a Pro – part 2

By: 192.168.1.1

192.168.1.1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:11:39 +0000

How to export our adjustment to a present and share with others ?

By: Photography, HDR and more… « mikelao photography

Photography, HDR and more… « mikelao photography — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:24:34 +0000

[...] Everyone can be a Pro — an article from Presets Heaven that discusses how Lightroom has become a big part in helping photographers get the images they want (and more)… Part 1 and Part 2. [...]

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:07:21 +0000

Thank you so much Roby!
I’m so glad you feel I have “opened” your eyes with my blog :-)

You should have invited me to dinner earlier. I was in Firenze for a weekend in the end of July :-)

Ciao!

By: Roby72©

Roby72© — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:09:26 +0000

Great job Pierre,
since I discover LR and your blog I completely forget JPG issue in my camera.
Now I only use RAW all the time…your tutorials and presets directly pushed my photos and my creativity to another dimension.
How many I would love to obtain a particular effect but I couldn’t be able to obtain what I would like to obtain.
Now I can and I exactly know how a determinate photo will be once processed!
I’ll never stop to thank you Pierre…………..if you’ll decide to spend your holidays in Italy let me know….
I’ll be glad to offer a dinner!!

Ciao

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:25:40 +0000

Thank you Mats,
I’ll have a look at it.

By: Mats

Mats — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:17:26 +0000

Thanks for a good article series.

It would be great if there were links to the actual presets used for the before/after pictures towards the end of the article.

Mats

By: Allam

Allam — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:49:03 +0000

Really good :)

Thanks,

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:19:06 +0000

Chris, I understand your dilemma now.:-) My only suggestion at the moment is to make separate presets that only affects the clarity and sharpness. Start from scratch on a photo without preset applied. Make your adjustments on clarity, sharpness etc. Save your preset but just leave the checkboxes on the parts you want the preset to handle. Name your preset to something you understand well; ex. “Mid sharp – Low clarity”, “High sharp – Mid clarity”…
Now you can use any other preset first and later apply one of your own calibration presets without touching settings from the first preset, except the sharpness, clarity etc.
Cheers,
Pierre

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:05:07 +0000

Hi Ben and thank you for the comment.
By reading your comment, I assume you haven’t read part one (and its comments) of this article.

By: Ben Rockwell

Ben Rockwell — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:31:40 +0000

This is just beyond horrible. Everybody can be a pro, step 1 buy big memory cards, and step 2 use presets??? yikes….

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:33:37 +0000

that is the problem when you import a preset you don’t know what does the preset do exactly.
Let say you import one about bw, you don’t know until you use it and check everything what it does.
Let say I like a certain calibration profil or an minimum amount of clarity or sharpness, some preset do touch that…
THe only way to know is to apply the preset and do correction after. When you have quite a bunch of presets it becomes quite difficult to manage.

Do you have any idea about that ?

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:52:49 +0000

Hi, Chris, I’m not sure If I understand your problem. To edit them you import them into Lightroom and make your adjustments there. When done you can save your adjustments as your own preset.
Same thing when you just want to “see” them. Import them to Lightroom and try them out. All my posted presets have a before/after image so people will get an idea of what the effect will look like when using it on their own images.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:07:31 +0000

Thanks a lot for your time and your good tips !!!
I do love the presets as well but the issue I have with them, you don’t know what in there And to know you need to open in the Texedit.
Same thing if you want to modifie them.

Not very user frendly

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:35:39 +0000

Thank you Julie,
Nice shots of Carter as well :-)

By: JulieM

JulieM — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:17:33 +0000

Good post, Pierre. Shall definitely refer LR beginners to it for help getting started with presets.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:46:41 +0000

Thank you John!

By: John James

John James — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:29:22 +0000

everyone can be a Pro
Very well done and explained