Presets Heaven » watermark http://www.presetsheaven.com Your source to free presets Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:26:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Presets Heaven http://www.presetsheaven.com/wp-content/2008/12/phtalks.gif http://www.presetsheaven.com 128 128 Your source to free presets 10 great video tutorials for Lightroom 3 http://www.presetsheaven.com/2011/04/01/10-great-video-tutorials-for-lightroom-3-video/ http://www.presetsheaven.com/2011/04/01/10-great-video-tutorials-for-lightroom-3-video/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:22:37 +0000 Pierre http://www.presetsheaven.com/?p=2097 Reading a blog article is great when you’re on a bus or train. Books are great too but video is the best you can get when it comes to tutorials. Therefore I’ve searched the net for you and collected 10 great videos that will give you some good tips on what you can do, and how you do it in Lightroom 3. Get your snacks ready cause here we go…

#1 How to export your images from Lightroom 3 to Flickr using the new Flickr publishing service

Lightroom & Flickr from Digiscrap101 – Kayla Lamoreaux on Vimeo.

#2 Working with Picture package in Lightroom 3 – part 1/2

Lightroom 3 Picture Packages from John Arnold on Vimeo.

#3 Working with Picture package in Lightroom 3 – part 2/2

Lightroom 3 Picture Packages part 2 from John Arnold on Vimeo.

#4 Add watermarks to your photos both for prints and digital images

Lightroom 3 watermark from mark stagi on Vimeo.

#5 Straightening the lines and removing distortions with lens correction.

Lightroom Tutorial | Lens Corrections from Andy Bloxham on Vimeo.

#6 Basic method for importing and sorting photos in Lightroom 3.

Basic Lightroom Workflow from Tyler Stalman on Vimeo.

#7 Using the spot removal tool.

Lightroom Tutorial | Spot Removal from Andy Bloxham on Vimeo.

#8 Adding facebook albums from Lightroom 3 using the Facebook publishing service.

Lightroom 3 – Adding Facebook Albums from Mike Hoffman on Vimeo.

#9 Remove noise with the new great noise reduction tool in Lightoom 3

Lightroom 3 Noise Reduction Tool from Yanik Chauvin on Vimeo.

#10 Shooting in thethered mode in Lightroom 3 – See the result directly on your computer screen

Shooting Tethered in Lightroom 3 from Jeff Shaffer on Vimeo.

f you have more great video tutorials you think deserve some publicity, please post them in the comments section below!

]]> http://www.presetsheaven.com/2011/04/01/10-great-video-tutorials-for-lightroom-3-video/feed/ 0 Tutorial:How to put image stamps in your photos with Lightroom. http://www.presetsheaven.com/2008/11/11/how-to-put-image-stamps-in-your-photos-with-lightroom/ http://www.presetsheaven.com/2008/11/11/how-to-put-image-stamps-in-your-photos-with-lightroom/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:26:53 +0000 Pierre http://www.presetsheaven.com/?p=584 teststamp_thumbDid you know you can put image stamps on your photos directly from Lightroom? A photographer usually put his logo stamp on all his images to mark them as a part of his/her work. This is often done using a pre-made Photoshop action but I will tell you how to do it within Lightroom instead to save some production time.

To be able to do this in a simple way, you can use a plug-in for Lightroom called LR/Mogrify. Timothy Armes is the developer of this great plug-in and apart from for the graphical watermark function you can do much more funny things; You can create borders, Text annotations, resize photos and sharpen them, modify color space and play with colors’ processing.
All effects are applied on export and each one of them can easily be customized to your needs.

The free version of this plug-in can export 10 images at a time but a donation of any amount will give you an unrestricted version of this software.

Here you can download the plug-in and also read the installation instructions:
»Get the Plug-in!
Be sure to download the right version of the plug-in since it’s available for both LR 1 and LR 2.

! To get this to work you also need to download ImageMagick ( Currently I have version “ImageMagick-6.4.4-Q16) which is the image engine used with this plugin: http://www.imagemagick.org

This is how I use the plug-in to put image stamps on my photos:

  1. I start by making the watermark stamp in Photoshop; To be sure my stamp doesn’t get placed to close the photos corners I put 10px of margin around it. In Photoshop I make the background layer invisible and put a stroke effect with 2px on my text/logo layer. I prefer to use white color for my stamp (text) since it looks good on most of my photos. The black stroke around it makes sure it will be visible on really light photos as well.
  2. To get the feeling of a soft semi-transparent stamp, I change the Opacity of my text/logo layer to 50%.
  3. When I’m satisfied I save my logo as a PNG image which is a great format that can handle transparent photos with anti-aliasing edges (GIF is not an option for me here).
  4. When saved, the stamp is ready for Lightroom.
  5. When I have installed the LR2/Mogrify plug-in to Lightroom I simply open the Export window as usual. A few clicks are needed so I start by inserting “Mogrify Configuration” and “Graphical Watermark” from the “Post-Process Actions:”-panel (you find it on the lower left side in the export window).
  6. Since this plug-in is using open source software called ImageMagic to modify the images, the path to the software needs to be added. I add my installation path of Mogrify.exe to the Mogrify Configuration panel (See, “Path of Mogrify application:” ).
  7. In the “Mogrify Graphical Watermark” panel I then add the path to my stamp/logo.
  8. Finally I select the position for my stamp by using the checkbox option for “Position”. This selection will place my stamp in the bottom right corner.

Instruction steps 1-4

Instruction steps 1-4

Instruction steps 5-8

Instruction steps 5-8

My final image exported with a stamp directly from Lightroom:

See more of Timothys work and other plugins here.

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