It’s preset Tuesday time!
Following yesterday’s post from my day at the orchards, I wanted to share with you a preset to get maximum vibrance and give an overall springy feel to the images.
Here are a couple of before and after images of the preset:
Before & After - LR4 Develop Preset - Vibrant Blossoms
Before & After - LR4 Develop Preset - Vibrant Blossoms
As I detailed in yesterday’s post, paying attention to the colors in the background, although quite blurred, can pay off later in post-processing. Here’s what this preset does:
- Slightly increases exposure to make sure images are bright enough
- Reduces highlights to deal with the flower petals and bring out their texture
- Slighty increases blacks for increased contrast and color
- Increases whites for additional brightness
- Increases vibrance for added color punch
- Adds sharpening for maximum detail
- Adds a little vignetting for center focus
- Adds a top gradient filter with a lime green color to accentuate the springy feel
Note that this preset was created primarily for use with RAW images. It does some of its magic by adjusting the white balance, which cannot be properly done on JPEG images. If you don’t shoot RAW yet, then get started now.
Download Vibrant Blossoms Develop Preset for Lightroom 4
Let me know if you enjoy this preset in the comments below and check back later for more Lightroom goodies.
How to Install Develop Presets
- Click the buttons above to download the Develop presets as a zip file.
- Unzip the downloaded file to your desktop (you will get a .lrtemplate file).
- In Lightroom, go in the Develop module.
- In the left column, make sure the Presets panel is open. Right click anywhere in the Presets area and create a new folder. Title it “27ShutterClicks Presets”.
- Right click on the newly created folder and choose Import.
- Locate the extracted .lrtemplate file and click Import.
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This looks great, would love to try this preset