It was only a dream – A preset for LR3 and LR4!
Today we have the pleasure to present our first free preset made for Lightroom 4! In fact, this preset is available in three versions. One for Lightroom 3, one for Lightroom 4 and finally a preset for Adobe Camera Raw 6.5 for those without Lightroom :-)
This preset is a freebie from one of 14 professional presets that can be purchased from our Propresets.com shop.
If you think this one looks good, you should definitely check out the rest of this master kit. It’s called “Modern Nostalgia” and can be found here with different before & after images.
Old touch preset
Hi all!
I hope you’re having a great summer wherever you are. I got a preset submitted by mail from Darya recently. It’s a black and white preset called “Historian” that makes your photos look like if they’re taken with an old camera.Try it out!
Thanks Darya! Read more
A big pack of free Lightroom presets from William
Once again we have a new great contribution of Lightroom presets! This time William, a wedding & portrait photographer from Maryland, has sent us a great set of presets. I let him explain them himself:
“I thought I’d send in some presets that we use here in the studio all the time. There are three sets.”
1. HDR Effect
There’s four of them, delivering various levels of the same effect. By themselves they won’t look so great. They’re designed to be applied after using another preset, dealing with color and tone is used. Try them out and you’ll see what I mean. In some situations, they will produce a ghosting effect around high contrast edges, so you have to know when to use them, but our clients usually love the results, even though they have no idea why. Specific adjustment to blacks, exposure and saturation/vibrance will usually be necessary.
2. Common Basic Adjustments
These are a simple set of presets that apply varying degrees of only one setting. We use these all the time for quick adjustments to lots of similar images. Rather than selecting a lot of images and making adjustments to the sliders, which can sometimes produce unpredictable results, just a few clicks on these presets speeds things up a lot, in our experience.
3. Style Assortment
This is a set of three stylized presets which we don’t use a whole lot anymore, but have gotten a lot of love in the past. They are basic adjustments to split toning, tone curve and post-crop vignette.
In this post we will only show you the preview of what the Style Assortment presets look like. Read more
28 free Lightroom presets from Chris
Once again I’ve got a great contribution with presets from a Photographer named Chris! With this set of totally 28 (!) presets you can really save some time during your post-processing. Try them out on different photos and you’ll learn how to use them to get the most out of them. Some work better on dark photos while some of them work best on lighter ones. They are intended to work best on portraits and wedding shots, but I was curious to try them out on a different kind of photo that I took in Venice a couple of month ago. Read more
Make your photos look professional in B&W
Hello dear reader!
This week I visited an old friend of mine. I brought my camera (as always) and took some photos of their lovely kids. The newest member of the family is “Meja”. She was curious about that big camera lens in front of her face. Her head and eyes followed it all the time. Who said it was hard to take photos of kids? hehe Read more
6 free Black & White presets from Wonderlandpresets
Just when you thought you had all kinds of black & white presets, these popped up. Nate from wonderlandpresets.com has contributed a lot to Presets Heaven before. I’m sure many of you already have some of his creations in you collection of Lightroom presets. This time he sent me a pack of 6 free black & white presets, exclusively for presetsheaven.com! These are all part of his Wonderland 3.0 collection.
Nate’s goal was to create a quiver of black and white preset options that were not over the top, but still offered some edge. Read more
A preset that goes dark in black and white
It has been some time now since I published a new preset. I’m sorry about that but I’ve been totally filled up with work and planning. I felt I just had to give you a new preset before the week end. This preset preset is called PH Dark & Light BW. I think it works great on some of my holiday photos. They tend to look more like an old postcard when I apply this preset. Enjoy. Read more
12 Black & White film emulation presets for Kodak B&W films!
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 presets are for Kodak B&W films, and each film emulsion has 3 presets; a standard develop preset that sets the basic development of the image, an Auto develop preset that allows Lightroom to automatically develop them image, and a curve preset that leaves the basic development alone, only changing tone curve and the color mixer. Read more
34 free Black & White film presets for Lightroom
Michael is a photographer who is devoted to black and white film. You might have seen some of his work on his flickr page. He posted this collection of presets in the presetsheaven flickr group. Shortly after, he contacted me and said I could post his work here if I liked it. And I did so here it is;. The collection of MikeyGs Black and White Film presets. Read more
Naturally BW – The sweetest black and white preset so far
Yesterday, me and my girlfriend was out driving the car when we suddenly saw this cute bull on the side of the road. “STOP THE CAR, I have to take photo of him!”. At first he was a bit careful and reserved but then he slowly walked towards us. I took some snapshots before we went home. Inside of Lightroom later this day, I started to play around with the settings on the photos and came up with a pretty sweet preset that really works well on all my other photos as well. A success like this must be shared to the rest. So here it is; PH Naturally BW… Read more
