How to make simple viewfinder borders in Lightroom…

Written by Pierre on November 11, 2008 in Presets - 15 Comments

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Hi guys, I hope you had a nice weekend. I’ve just started to renovate our kitchen so at the moment I live in quite a mess. :-/. I recently got a mail from “George” who sent me a nifty little preset. It’s not the one you’re used to download from me but I definitely think it is cool enough to mention and to make available for the rest of you. It’s called “GQ-Frame-Viewfinder-Border” and it creates a border similar to the view you get looking through and old camera viewfinder. George sent me a preset that generates a black frame, so I did another one in white. If you want to change the size of the borders/ edges, try adjusting the Midpoint slider in the Post-Crop section of the Vignettes panel.

Presets in action

SOOC/ORIGINAL:

GQ – Frame Viewfinder – Black border:

GQ – Frame Viewfinder – White border:

You can read more about George here.

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15 Comments on "How to make simple viewfinder borders in Lightroom…"

Mic November 11, 2008 at 12:17 am ·
Loved your website! Now i´ll sure become a fan! ;)
Sunny November 11, 2008 at 1:40 am ·
Thanks for sharing the new presets, Pierre. How nice to be able to create a simple frame.
tom November 11, 2008 at 4:24 am ·
Thank you very much for this.
Do you have anything in your bag of tricks that does a automatic stamp of your copyright/name like you have on your pictures?
Thanks again.
Pierre November 11, 2008 at 8:47 am ·
Thank you all!
Tom,
Actually I have a post in the pipeline which will explain how to put stamps on your photos in Lightroom.
shmileblik November 11, 2008 at 10:53 am ·
Thank you very much for all your prestes and tips on lightroom, I’m fond of your website! As my english is not so good as I would like it could appear somewhere but…I don’t know in which folder put this *.lrtemplate.
For presets I usually put it in \Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets.
I’m sorry for this stupid question. Thanks in advance. Hope I could create some good preset a day to send to you ^^
Pierre November 11, 2008 at 11:15 am ·
Hi Shmileblik,
What kind of template is it? The easiest way to find the right path is to… Make a new preset anywhere (in develop, slideshow, print or web). When you have done a preset you can right-click on it and explore its location.
Cheers.
shmileblik November 12, 2008 at 7:09 pm ·
Thanks Pierre. Anyway, I’m real dumb, sorry. I put this .lrtemplate in the develop folder and it wirks very well, I got beautiful borders! I’m sorry for my stupid question :(
toddmemories November 13, 2008 at 7:14 pm ·
This is a silly question – love your downloads. How do I get them into lightroom?
Pierre November 13, 2008 at 9:51 pm ·
Hi “toddmemories”
Try this post to find out how to install the presets: http://www.presetsheaven.com/2008/09/24/tutorial-how-to-import-presets-into-adobe-lightroom/
Tom November 21, 2008 at 11:32 pm ·
Yet another one I’ve been looking for, a simply but effective viewfinder frame.
Thanks again Pierre.
magdalena January 26, 2009 at 11:13 am ·
thank you! thank you!
Janer July 26, 2010 at 9:16 am ·
Thank you Pierre, as much as I love LR I do be disappointed by it’s lack of border options.
Any other border presets in the pipeline?
Pierre July 26, 2010 at 1:20 pm ·
Thank you Janer!
I will look up other possibilities to add frames/borders on photos in Lightroom.
/Pierre
megan February 16, 2012 at 9:18 pm ·
Thanks so much!
Gaurav July 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm ·
Hi Piere, I clicked free download and got CWP Boost.IrTemplate,, where as I need the one written in your blog.. am I doing something wrong?