BASICS
A Beginning…
The Auto Family
Brightside
Electric Skies
Highlight Hero
Landscape
Phil’s Shadows
The Sharpen Family
Smack My Pix Up
BLACK AND WHITE
50K
Bodie
Concrete Jungle
Great White
Grey Matter
Night Man
Riot Juice
Sketchy
EFFECTS
Bitchin Camaro
Boogie Nights
Crystal Ship
Eddie Would Go
Friendly Confines
Golden Age
Mystery Bus
Skid Row
Sweating Bullets
Xanadu
VIGNETTES AND TONING
Fade Highlights
Afternoon Delight
Blue Flame
Chocolate Rain
Mulletron 3000
Purple Nurple
See-Pee-Ya!
Shower Of Gold
Vignettes
Sloppy Seconds
LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS
Big Blue LR
Bottled Tan
Eye Bump
Green With Envy LR
Makeup Brush
Yin / Yang LR
Moby Dick had, “Call me Ishmael,” A Tale of Two Cities had, “It was a the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and Twilight had, “Something, something, glittery guy with great hair who watches you sleep (I haven’t really read Twilight in awhile).” Everything great has a beginning. There is always that first step, item one on the checklist, and when editing in Lightroom there is no better place to start than A Beginning…
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Comes in three strengths, lite, medium, strong.
This group of presets is that guy you used to flirt with to do your homework. All you have to do is give him a little attention, and he takes care of all those boring tasks that you need to do before you really dive into editing a photo. The Auto Family allows you to break free from Lightroom’s all or nothing auto setting by allowing you to have an auto setting for individual aspects of a photo.
That moment when he pops open that little ring box and you see something shiny inside. That feeling when you’re bubbling with excitement, and you’re not sure if you’re going to cry or never stop giggling. That is the Brightside, a preset that increases exposure while giving a nice little bump to your contrast.
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Can be used as either lite or strong.
See user-submitted examples using Brightside in our Recipes section.
It is staring off the deck of a ship. The sky and water so blue it is hard to tell where one stops and the other begins. Make your images bluer than jazz with Electric Skies. The preset that will bring out your photos brightest blues.
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Can be applied as lite, medium, or strong.
Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, stronger than a…well you get the picture. This preset is the dashing hero to your highlights damsel. If she is in distress, run Highlight Hero, and he will rescue her from the certain death of falling off your tonal scale.
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Comes in three strengths lite, medium, and strong.
Beaches, and fields, and mountains, oh my! Landscape is the Swiss army knife of landscape photography. It is perfect for editing nature, whatever the setting.
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Can be applied as lite, medium, or strong.
This preset is that little warm feeling you get when your boss takes your out to lunch, or when you find a crumpled dollar bill between your couch cushions. Phil’s Shadows acts as a fill light, and brightens your image’s shadow areas.
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Can be applied as lite, medium, or strong.
See user-submitted photos processed with Phil’s Shadows in our Recipes section.
They’re the cherry on top of your banana split. Whether your picture needs a little sharpening or a ton, these presets have you covered. They will add that finishing touch to your image.
A trenta sized cup of coffee for your pixels. It gives them a jolt, and makes your colors, clarity, and contrast SCREAM.
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Comes in either lite or strong.
See user-submitted images using Smack My Pix Up at our Recipes section.
Magic, just pure magic. The formula to create this preset defies all logic, but it works. 50K is a gutsy conversion full of high contrast. It seems to know all the right places to put the tones of an image to make it look great.
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Comes with the option for regular, softer and lighter.
Saloon girls, six guns, stubby cigars, and a showdown at high noon, relive the old west with Bodie. A preset that emulates the stained, antique look of photos from a bygone era.
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This preset gives you the option to apply it as lite, medium, or strong
It is that old subway train that you know has been circling the city since the 70s. It is gritty, has torn seats, and more character than you ever thought possible. Concrete Jungle captures that moody, inner city feel with its increased highlight contrast, created at the expense of opening the shadows.
Be warned! This dramatic, high key black and white preset will only work if you hum the Jaws theme while using it.
This is the Hans Zimmer and John Williams of black and white presets. It takes your already great landscapes and ethereal portraits and turns them into something epic.
Clouds of smoke hover over an old wooden bar; the men are wearing trench coats and fedoras, while the women put off a sultry air as they command the room. This moody black and white captures all of the mystery and drama of film noir. This is Night man, “feeling so wrong and right, man.”
It’s that friend of yours who looks like he is serving 25 to life, but really just loves kittens and the Bachelor. Despite its name this conversion is a straightforward preset that delivers a classic black and white look.
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See user-submitted examples using Riot Juice in our Recipes section.
That one item of clothing that hangs in a place of honor in your closet. You know it makes you look good. So good that it would be wasted on wearing it to anything but the most special of occasions. This homage to Paolo Roversi provides a very low-contrast image with fine, delicate detail that seems to materialize from the ether.
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Comes with three application options darker, lighter, and lightest.
Your first car, freedom, open windows, heater on, that it’s good to be bad feeling as you drive faster than you parents would approve. Help your images re-capture the glory days of youth with this classic preset.
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Comes with the option for lite, medium, or strong.
See user-submitted examples using Bitchin Camaro in the Recipes section.
“Night fever, night feeveer, we know how to do it!” Use Boogie Nights’ early color film feel to relive the Disco era without ever having to touch a pair of bell-bottoms.
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Available in three strengths lite, medium, and strong.
See what other photographes are doing with Boogie Nights in our Recipes section.
That vinyl record sound, the snap and crackle as the needle sets into the grooves, the pure bliss that only comes from listening to a record. Imprint that vinyl feel onto your photographs with Crystal Ship.
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Comes in three strengths lite, medium, and strong.
The clouds roll in, the waves get bigger, and you can’t help but wonder what it would be like. You try to imagine how it would feel to be caught in the tide, the ocean pulling and pushing as one giant wave crashes after another. Add a depth of mystery and wonder to your images with this tonal shifting, moody preset.
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Can be applies as lite, medium, or strong.
The pure joy of your first baseball game. You’re sitting in the nosebleeds with the biggest hot dog you’ve ever seen and a soda in a flimsy wax cup that you’re scared is going to break any second. At the 2nd inning you’re hoping the game will never end, but by the 9th you’ve fallen asleep leaning against your dad’s arm. Catch all the nostalgia of those early memories with Friendly Confines.
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Gives you the option to be applied as lite, medium, or strong.
Check out user-submitted images using Friendly Confines at the Totally Rad Recipes section.
Ice cream parlors, roller skates, and stick ball games in an abandoned lot. Use Golden Age, and give your photos a warm vintage-y feel that calls to mind every summer day you never wished would end.
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Can be applied as lite, medium or strong.
Check out user-submitted recipes using Golden Age in the Totally Rad Recipes #mce_temp_url#section.
We all had that day when we realized there is only one reason someone would make a three-foot tall sandwich, and suddenly the mystery bus became a lot less mysterious. Use the greens and yellows of this preset to reclaim some of that childhood naïveté.
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Comes in three strengths, lite, medium, strong.
Make an image look so cool, hard, and crisp it might mug you in an alley. Use this dark, high contrast, and low saturation preset to give your pictures a gritty, inner city feel.
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Gives you the options for lite, medium, or strong application.
This is Skid Row’s kinder gentler brother. It won’t darken your images as much, and it definitely won’t rob you in an alley, but lets face it, it probably stole a lot of lunch money in grade school. Use it when you want to give your images a little edge, but don’t want the effect to be too harsh.
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Can be applied at light, medium, or strong.
Our best guess to how things will probably look when you die, if you were good. Makes an image bright, soft, and saturated.
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Comes in three strengths lite, medium, and strong.
It is your favorite dessert, book, and blanket by the fire. This preset gives your images a softer, moody look by pinching the highlights from a pure white to a gray.
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You can choose either lite or strong application with this preset.
That feeling that comes from a long afternoon of…with the…well it makes you feel good. This preset will make you feel all warm and fuzzy with its golden highlights, and purplish shadow areas.
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This preset gives you the option for both lite and strong application.
See how other photogs are using Afternoon Delight at Totally Rad Recipes.
It’s that moment of bliss when you’ve just finished a long run, and you get that first glass of cool water. You don’t pull the glass away from your lips until it is empty, and only then it is to refill it as you let out a happy sigh. Give your images that refreshing, cool water feeling with this blue toned preset.
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This preset comes with options for both lite and strong.
Belgium, dark, milk, bittersweet, you can never go wrong with a little taste of chocolate. Whether you’re using it to beg forgiveness from a jilted lover, or as a preset to add some delicious, chocolatey tones to your image.
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This preset comes with an option for both lite and strong application.
Check out what other users are doing with Chocolate Rain at the Recipes section.
Pencil skirts, silk stalkings, and cigarette holders. Give your image a vintage and moody feel with this, the Mullertron 3000.
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This preset comes with both lite and strong settings.
A bed of spring flowers, add beautiful tones to your image with Purple Nurple!
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This preset give you the option of either lite or strong application.
It’s that burning in your cheeks when you come in from the cold. Give your photos a pleasant warmth with See-Pee-Ya as it adds yellows to your highlights and grays to your shadows.
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This preset comes with the option for both lite and strong application.
The sun is cresting a hill, releasing its beautiful light, and covering you in its golden rays. Add gorgeous, golden tones to your highlights with a Shower of Gold.
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This preset come with both lite and strong settings.
Everyone has a favorite Ninja Turtl…I mean artist. Everyone has a favorite artist. Check out Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael to find out which one your new favorite vignette will be.
The look of all those test prints from your glory days in the darkroom. Use this unique vignette to create blurred, rounded edges.
Ah, the open skies! Rolling clouds and an infinity of azure. Big Blue will deepen and dramatize skies, making your blues bluer and your whites whiter.
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This brush comes in three strengths lite, medium, and strong.
That golden bronze of summer skin. Now, with 100% less melanoma. Use this local adjustment tool to warm up areas of a photo and make people look less pale, but without adjusting the overall white balance of an image.
Eyes so vibrant they could stop traffic. use this tool to create an eye bump that is truly stunning.
Your images explode with color and life. Landscapes radiate bold, bright tones as if they’ve just been washed by a springtime rain. It’s two steps to a vacation postcard. Your friends will be Green With Envy.
Powder your nose without having to take trips to the ladies room. Use this tool to quickly smooth skin. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but great in a pinch.
Your images are out of balance. Light and dark clash and destroy the harmony you seek. Yin / Yang will help you restore that balance. Quickly lighten and darken select areas in your images to add drama and shape the light. Fill the shadows and tame the highlights. Yin / Yang is your mantra and your tool.
