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Lightroom Flickr Preset Extractor
Mike Wiacek wrote a little program that extracts a Lightroom preset from a Flickr photo. Basically, if you see a Flickr photo you like, you can try out the Preset Extractor to create a Lightroom preset of the effect. The extractor looks at the metadata and tries to reverse engineer it into a preset. Of course it only works if people don’t strip the EXIF data from their photos before posting them and it only seems to work with the latest versions of Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. Here’s the link. Stop by and give it a try.
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Hi Everyone,
I’d like you all to know that I was the first person to apply: Vibrance +20, Clarity +15, Strong Contrast. That’s my hard work and intellectual property so I’d appreciate it if you could all stop using that setting otherwise I’ll definitely have to unleash the lawyers.
You’ll have to find a combination of settings that can be your own.
So if a writer writes the words ‘Go to hell’ in a sentence, that excludes anyone from ever writing those words in a sentence again?
If a painter applies blue paint with a particular brush, that excludes all other painters from using that combination?
I have my computer monitor set up with specific values to adjust the colour balance,does that mean nobody else can use those values?
I think a reality check is in order.
Hi all,
My opinion….. I’m glad people make tools like this. I don’t think there is nothing wrong with doing this. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. And if you don’t want people seeing how you created your image remove the data… I would never use one except on my own images…. and from now on I will pull my data from some of my images I post, maybe.
This guy (Dan) sounds like he need to learn to grow up? …and move on? I totally agree with Alfred.
I’m still waiting for a reply from a friend of mine, a lawyer from a reputable firm to get back to me as what he (Dan) can do on this matter.
Dan claimed:
” I was the first person to apply: Vibrance +20, Clarity +15, Strong Contrast.” To me, that sounds like Mr. Kubota’s settings!
Midi-
He was joking.
Quite frankly I think all the fuss is pointless and anger directed at the developer is misguided. Flickr has made a getExif method available as part of its public API. When, I don’t know but it has probably been there for a few years. I suspect that somewhere in the small print of your agreement with Flickr there is something that says your publishing of images with Exif grants Flickr the right to publish that Exif. I don’t see how blame can be assigned to the developer for using the method that Flickr has made publicly available.
@Patrick
Grow Up. If you are so paranoid about your settings being stolen, then remove the EXIF data.
I don’t know where you are in Europe as you are not very forthcoming with that information, but I live in the UK which is part of the EU and certainly the law you refer to is absolute BOLLOCKS here.
Why don’t you tell us which country you live in, so we can look up this so called law for ourselves, or maybe this so called country along with this so called law does not exist.
Just a Thought
I would like to say one thing. I take a lot of HDR shots and at first I thought that HDR was the shot but when it comes down to it the Shot is the Shot not the processing!
Lighten Up!
You guys are all keeping me amused! Thanks
D
Actually I am starting to wonder though, maybe *some* of you are serious… Dan you really have to stop kidding about with people who can’t tell that you’re kidding about!
Cheers to you all from a very wintery Wellington, NZ
Alastair
It’s a load of nonsense to suggest that the wholesale ‘plagiarism’ of pre-sets will result in a reduction of sales or a loss of income. More than likely all that will happen is some folk will improve their pics a bit. Big bloody deal.
Now. Where did I leave that Michaelangelo copy? It’s supposed to go for auction in the morning.
LMFAO @ post 51… It was actually I to be the first one to do it. im Counter Suing
As usual, I was slower than the litigious bunch who brought this app down. Could someone who did manage to get it please email me a copy at: joeimage001@gmail.com
Thanks!!
It’s like thinking that one can copyright distortion on an electric guitar. -M
I think this is all a joke, dont you think why would you even care, if anything you should be delighted that people like the effects..
Hey Dan. Please direct me to your Flickr gallery so that I can DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR presets. Also, my door is open for you to UNLEASH your or the lawyers. We will see who’s ass get burned.
Thanks! From the land of the rising sun
It’s one thing to download and simply apply the same settings. It’s a completely different thing to understand why the settings were used as they were. When you have no clueas to why, your images will never be as great as the ones you copied the settings from.
No harm done, if copying settings pleases the crowd.. so be it.
@Patrick,
Well, you should remove all graphics editing software from your computer because just about everything you do to a photo, has already been done by another photographer.
Geez, get a life.