PRESETS GALORE

This Lightroom preset will enhance natural low-lit portraits. Fully adjustable.

The example photo features my daughter watching TV this afternoon. She usually won’t let me take photos of her, so I have to be stealthy.

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This trio of Photoshop actions will produce fun vintage film-like looks.

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This Photoshop action will give a grainy old black and white look to your photos.

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I’m back. My personal life exploded on me. I won’t bore you with the details, but everything is back on track and I’m re-energized.

I made this Lightroom preset to process some photos of birds after a trip to the beach a few days ago.

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This Lightroom preset will turn outdoor portraits realistically warm. The example photo is of my lovely almost 2-year-old daughter.

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This Photoshop action is part of a set of 20 that are currently for sale in the Etsy shop.

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This Photoshop action will bring out freckles in portraits. If you want to adjust the look, go to “Edit” then “Step Backward”. You can then adjust the sliders in the “Channel Mixer” layer, keeping in mind that more blue and less red while in the red and green channel will make the look more dramatic. Conversely, more red and less blue will have the opposite effect.

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This Photoshop action will add warm sepia tones to cool, drab foggy scenes.

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This is my personal favorite Lightroom preset. So far, it has looked great with just about every photo I have applied it to, after a single click. It is part of the Opalotype set and is also for sale as a single on Etsy. However, you can have it for free.

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The holidays are over! Yay. Now I can focus on presets/actions again.

This Lightroom preset is a sample from the Albumen set. It is wonderful for high-contrast subjects but might was out low-contrast subjects. It’s adjustable though of course.

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