Testing, testing…
Everybody seems to be selling Lightroom presets these days, but I hardly use them.
The problem with ‘adopting’ someone else’s presets is that they probably won’t do what you want them to do. Yes, they could probably make a dramatic difference to some photos, but you lose control because they are almost always bundles of adjustments, not all of which are necessary.
I’ve created a few simple presets that you’re welcome to download for yourself by clicking on the button above.
As you’ll see, there aren’t very many of them, and they all do one thing and one thing only.
That’s the way I like it.
I want to have total control over my images, so I need to know when I use a preset exactly what it’s doing, and I don’t want to have to ‘unpick’ any unwanted changes afterwards.
Here is a list of the presets you’ll get together with an explanation of each:
BPS +25
Blue Primary Saturation set to +25BPS +50
Blue Primary Saturation set to +50BPS +75
Blue Primary Saturation set to +75BPS +100
Blue Primary Saturation set to +100Calibration 0
Reset all Calibration settingsColor 0
Reset Color Noise ReductionColor 10
Color Noise Reduction set to 10Color 25
Color Noise Reduction set to 25Dehaze 25
Dehaze set to 25DP tone curve
Tone Curve set to Design Pics required settings (-5 for Highlights and +5 for Shadows)Exposure 0
Reset ExposureH&S
Set Highlights to -100 and Shadows to +100Highlights
Set Highlights to -100Luminance 25
Set Luminance Noise Reduction to 25Luminance 40
Set Luminance Noise Reduction to 25Noise Reduction 0
Reset Luminance and Color Noise ReductionRCA EBC for 28-300mm
Remove Chromatic Aberration and Enable Profile Corrections for Nikon 28-300mm lensRCA EBC for 80-400mm
Remove Chromatic Aberration and Enable Profile Corrections for Nikon 80-400mm lensRCA EBC for 800mm
Remove Chromatic Aberration and Enable Profile Corrections for Nikon 800mm lensRPS +25
Red Primary Saturation set to +25RPS +50
Red Primary Saturation set to +50RPS +75
Red Primary Saturation set to +75RPS +100
Red Primary Saturation set to +100Sepia
Convert to sepia (by changing Treatment to Black & White and Color Grading to sepia settings)Shadows
Set Shadows to +100Sharpening 0
Reset SharpeningSilhouette
Darken silhouettes (by changing Shadows and Blacks to -100)Vignette -12
Set Post-Crop Vignetting to -12Vignette -20
Set Post-Crop Vignetting to -20Vignette -50
Set Post-Crop Vignetting to -50Vignette 0
Reset Post-Crop VignettingVignette 20
Set Post-Crop Vignetting to 20
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