11 presets for night-shots by Sarah
Sarah has once again made a great contribution to Presets Heaven. You probably already got some of her presets in your presets archive but these are 11 brand new ones. “-These presets will not impact exposure and brighness, so you’ll want to adjust those setting either before or after applying the presets to get the results you want. Also, since these are specifically for night-time shots that may have required a high ISO, the noise reduction settings will not be impacted by the presets, as you will want to adjust those yourself depending on your personal tolerance for noise. And while these presets were developed for RAW (uncompressed) files, most of them should work for JPEG files as well; you’ll just need to tweak a little more here and there.” Read more
3 presets from Dominic
Every now and then I receive presets from people out “there” who like to share their work with all the rest of us. I think it’s great so keep doing that! This time Dominic sent me three presets from his own collection. I’ve just tried them out and if you like to try them too… here they are. Read more
11 presets for different autumn feelings
Sarah-Ji just sent me a contribution including 11 (!) presets. All of them with a theme of autumn colors.
These presets are non-destructive to basic exposure settings for the most part, so you will want to apply the settings AFTER you have corrected things like exposure, fill light, black, brightness and contrast. Check them out… Read more
Oldschool skintone – revamped
This is a new edition of an older preset called “PH Oldschool skintone“. I’ve made some adjustments both for brightness and darkness. Finally I’ve added some vignettes to it. If you’re photos tend to get to dark I suggest you decrease the values for the vignettes. It’s been some time since I published a new preset but being fully employed and at the same time running my own business is quite time-consuming. But here we go again… I hope you like it. Read more
CSI Miami look preset II
Earlier I made a preset called CSI Miami. That preset mostly changed the saturation and color tones in a hard way. This time I made a new version called CSI Miami II (of course 
) It consists of three graduated filters, adjustments on white balance and some color tone changes.
You might wanna move the graduated filters (up or down depending on the horizon) to make the effect look good on your photos. Keep in mind that this preset works best on photos like the one in the example below.
By the way… I took this shot in Miami when I was there with my wife on our honeymoon Read more
6 new presets to “wow” your photos
I’ve been sitting here for hours now. Playing around in Lightroom, testing and adjusting before I finally got satisfied. Photoshop have a nice feature called “Curve adjustments” where you can change the color channels (RGB) separately with a few clicks with your mouse. I really wish Lightroom had that feature built in. Anyway, I started this session by doing some curve adjustments in Photoshop. When I was satisfied I tried to accomplish the same result in Lightroom. It’s really not that easy, I can tell for sure. A couple hours of testing and I’m sitting here with 6 new presets. Actually it is a set of three presets with two options each; one with vingettes and one without. Read more
Dramatic Ocean – For both sky and water
I was sitting here with my old crappy laptop (you can’t even imagine) trying to be creative for a moment. After three crashes I almost gave up but I was to close to my goal…
Recently there was a “great” storm outside and I just had to take a ride out to the ocean to see it in action. I probably took about 150 shots before I went home again.
Actually I wanted to try to make some new HDR images (with three or more images merged) but my tripod was way to cheap to stand against the wind for multiple EV shots. Anyway I still got some nice shots and some that didn’t reached the top-10. Read more
Oldschool skintone – a pro-preset?
I really like this preset that I recently made. It’s perfect for my wedding shots and works perfect for light photos like the one I use in this example. I will surley use this preset many times for my clients photo albums. It’s so fun to see and hear their positive reactions when they look at something they didn’t expect. Some of my presets gives a more experimental look than professional. I consider this preset to be a pro-preset and hope you really enjoy it. Read more
Dark areas turn into bright and beauty
Taking photos in the sun without a fill-light or reflector often result in dark shadows. To fix this issue you can use the adjustment brush in Lightroom and lighten up those areas or… you can use this preset which also gives another great effect. As you can see it brings a nice overall warm “pinkish” (nice word btw) tone to the photo. To me this kind of style looks more fashionable than the original photo. Just look at the nice enhancement of the reflections in the sunglasses. Read more
Let the sunshine get cold
I was out this weekend taking some shots by the coast. The sun was just about to go down this lovely evening. Some people think a photo should remain untouched when it’s been taken. I agree sometimes, but most of the time I believe some touch-up will make the photo much better. This time I wanted to make the photo look “colder” than it’s original. After a couple of minutes I got this result which is a bit surrealistic but eye-catching, don’t you think? Read more
