I am finally starting to get my hands dirty, really dirty with Lightroom goodness. I have tried other peoples Lightroom presets but never made my own. I have decided to make a few presets I use often for photography effects i personally like and here is the first in the series… my first ever Lightroom Preset called LightlyToasted_Splittone.
Download the Splittone Lightroom Preset here.
This is a .ZIP file so you will need to unzip and import the Lightroom Preset and its all ready to go.
TIP: After applying the preset re-apply the black to suit the tone of the image, this adds a bit of punch.
LightlyToasted_Splittone creates a splittone effect using light sepia tones to bring out some olde world charm. View the larger and more detailed version of the image by clicking on the thumbnails below. And if you like it, download away. Its free and I won’t come knocking on your door for payment.
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Ah you guessed it. I am currently reading Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 book. This is one amazing book and if you are anywhere halfway keen on good photography and or workflow like I am the technical inputs with save you precious time and headaches galore. Besides, after using Lightroom 1.x for over a year this book went out to say to me I was barely scratching the surface of Lightroom. Its written with practicality in mind and even if you have never used Lightroom version 2 or Lightroom 1.x you will be easily work your way through step by step in no time.
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I have been an Adobe Lightroom fan since the early days and having dabbled in it a bit I could tell the power this piece of software had over others in the market — Capture One, iPhoto, iView MediaPro and so on. Still remember buying the first version before I headed to Perth for a holiday last year and then came version 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 all with progressive changes until beta 2 landed on the threshold with some very promising additions. Since using beta 2 of the program I have found it IMPOSSIBLE to go back to Lighroom version 1.x so I literally stuck with it right until yesterday when Lightroom version 2 was released! I was quick to buy the upgrade after a quick look at Matt and Scott’s review and my own experience of working through Lightroom beta 2.
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If you shoot, catalogue and process photos and wish to jump on Adobe’s Lightroom 2.0 bandwagon and need an invite — all you have to do is leave a comment here for me and I’ll send you one. Do check out the Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Forum here. I have been using Lightroom since its beta stages and Lightroom 2.0 beta over a month now. Obviously no software is perfect and does all you need in one go but Lightroom comes pretty close to what most professional and amateur photographers need and that is from my own everyday experience. Try it!
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The new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a professional photographers software. It provides one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs all in the one workspace. Watch the 10 min Flash video.
I’ve only just waded through a few bits and pieces of the wealth of features the new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has to offer. My trial copy is still good for another fortnight and at this rate I’d surely consider buying Lightroom. I have put together a list of Lightroom resources and will be adding more in time.
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