Comments on: Weekly Presets – Graduated Filters

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:35:08 +0000

I upgraded to lr2 and it did not bring all my cataloges along. Why and what should I do?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:37:15 +0000

Thanks Mike for the answer. Hope my LR2 arrives today!

By: Julianne

Julianne — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:25:07 +0000

That’s a pretty neat tip too – cheers

As for John Beardsworth’s presets I can’t get them to work for me as the graduated part is being applied down the left hand side of my images, whatever their orientation???

By: ADGarcia

ADGarcia — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:02:31 +0000

Hi Matt.

I would like to share a tip.
I was processing a number of shoots I did for Filipina actress Patricia Javier and I noticed that when I slide Carity to the positive I noticed that her skin seems to "tighten". Then maybe, if I slide it to the negative then perhaps it would soften. Voila! Negative Clarity equals Soft Skin! It softens in a way that the pores are still visible and so makes the "softening" believable and does not look plastic. Here is the link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2764817384_b845be5ca8.jpg?v=0

By: Jon Van Dalen

Jon Van Dalen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:02:26 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for putting together such a great and well-updated blog about lightroom. I think the graduated filters tool is a great addition to LR2 and can’t wait to see what people come up with.

By: mikemc

mikemc — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:56:53 +0000

Hey Kathleen,

Once you install LR2 (this is based on my experience – i just did 2 days ago), it automatically picked up and converted my LR1 catalog. Not sure about your beta, but would assume you would add that catalog as a step 2 after migrating your LR1.

As for uninstalling LR1, are you on MAC or Windows? If MAC just drag LR1 icon in your Applications folder to the trash, just make sure everything is working as it should after the migration from LR1 to LR2.

With windows, there should just be an uninstall shorcut in start menu otherwise: START -> CONTROL PANEL -> ADD or REMOVE PROGRAMS -> LR1

Hope this helps! ANyone return the favor on my “subfolder” inquiry?

By: Kathleen D

Kathleen D — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:42:50 +0000

Hi Matt (or anyone else who wants to answer),
Since I know you read the comments I thought I would pose my LR 2 questions here. I purchased LR2 academic version and wondered when I install it, will it give me an option to update both my LR 1 and beta catalogs? Do I just do them one and a time? Also once I get LR2 on my computer, what is the safest way to remove LR1? I need to take it off to have more space on my computer. Thanks for all of your great insight into this program.

Kathleen

By: mikemc

mikemc — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:05:36 +0000

Matt (or anyone),

Is there a way in LR2 to do subfolders for presets more than one level deep? (i.e. Main Folder called ‘B&W Presets’ then in that a folder called ‘Step 1′, ‘Step 2′, etc… or something along those lines.

My User Presets folder is getting long and would love a way to nest and better organize.

Thx,
Mike

By: ElliR

ElliR — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:26:36 +0000

Or you could even get them for free here: http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/news/index.php?id=C0_27_1 You’ll have to scroll down the page until near the bottom. Look out for a LR icon with a white surrount – the download link is to the left of this in the text.

By: viktor

viktor — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:39:11 +0000

hi Mat i just have bought the Graduated Filters from that website…
i have a problem with one thing though dont know if that’s the lightroom or somethign i pressed by accident. but when i Aply filter to the image and than try to select Adjustmant brush (K) and trying to errace some of the filter overlays, it wont let me select the erraser option… and it used to before ? any idea why that whold happened… any help with be helpfull
thx in adv.