Comments on: Presets – Retouching Brushes

By: Carlotta Shelton Lopata

Carlotta Shelton Lopata — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:32:30 +0000

Matt,
THESE ARE THE BEST!!! I had some trickey lighting issues and I was able to brighten just a few spots and make the pictures perfect. THANK YOU !!!!!

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:13:29 +0000

Thank you very much for these helpfull presets. I have searched a long time for presets like that.

By: erin carlson

erin carlson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:28:22 +0000

why is my Mac. Adobe Lightroom saying that this preset is the wrong kind of preset or file???

Thanks Erin

By: doug

doug — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:07:53 +0000

i got it to work..there was a check box mentioning “store presets with catalog” that needs to be unchecked for the new brushes to show up in LR.
good stuff! thanks!

By: doug

doug — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:51:56 +0000

hmm..i have LR 2.4 and have tried this over again..and restarted it and the brushes do not show up in LR. I can see the brushes in with the original soften skin inside the folder as you mentioned..and that brush is “blue” in the folder?

By: jill

jill — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:05:10 +0000

i’m new to lightroom and have v.1.1. will these presets work?

By: Mike F.

Mike F. — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:34:49 +0000

I found that the whiten teeth brush works better if you change the color to a very light blue to cancel out any yellowish stains on the teeth.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:28:11 +0000

Hi, Matt! I’ve recently discovered the fabulousness of the adj. brush and your wonderful presets. I really want to make one of my own. I can save a custom preset with a single adjustment, but I can’t figure out how to layer more than one adjustment in a single preset. (i.e.- tooth whitener=exposure & sat adjustments) I’ve googled and searched here, but haven’t found the answer yet. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks so much for all you do; this is a wonderful resource!

By: William Hepner

William Hepner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:01:38 +0000

I’ve just upgraded to LR2 after learning that LR can now handle raw files. Unfortunately being an hobbyist type of photographer and only on SS can not aford CS4. Did have CS2 but it got corrupted and is non usable. Do you have a set of presets that could be used for Landscape and Flowers.
I really like the idea of having presets. BTW I shoot with a Canon Xt and a Canon A580 point n shoot.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:40:09 +0000

I have downloaded these and followed your directions but they are not showing up.

I do not get the Effect pop-up menu when I click on the Brush. This is the white pop up menu that is shown in Kelby’s LR2 book on page 170. He says if you hit the K key this will also pop up.

Nothing I do brings up this white menu. I cannot find how to Soften Skin without this menu.

I have version 2.3 of Lightroom. All these new shortscuts show up in the Local adjustments preset folder, but none show up when I try to use them in Lightroom 2.3.

What am I missing?