Comments on: Presets – How to Steal a Preset and Make it Your Own http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/ Online Photoshop Lightroom Tutorials and Tips with Matt Kloskowski Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Reyes http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-13894 James Reyes Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:40:34 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-13894 Thank you for your awesome tips and presets. Your knowledge has greatly helped me refine my lightroom skills. Thank you for your awesome tips and presets. Your knowledge has greatly helped me refine my lightroom skills.

]]> By: GeorgeH http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-13022 GeorgeH Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:34:57 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-13022 things evolve, its the nature of things. things evolve, its the nature of things.

]]> By: Del http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-12151 Del Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:41:58 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-12151 Matt, great presets. I've already been "stealing" them the way your descibe. I create them in a new folder and give them a name based on the original name, so if a preset is called "Matts_Grungy_Edgy_Grainy_Wedding_Preset", I might call my new one "Matts_Grungy_Edgy_Grainy_Wedding_Preset_Slightly_Sharper" ... If anyone then subsequently "steals" the preset, it's got the original name, but mostly I do that so that I remember where the presets I make are coming from. Easier to identify what I want to use that way. Matt, great presets. I’ve already been “stealing” them the way your descibe. I create them in a new folder and give them a name based on the original name, so if a preset is called “Matts_Grungy_Edgy_Grainy_Wedding_Preset”, I might call my new one “Matts_Grungy_Edgy_Grainy_Wedding_Preset_Slightly_Sharper” … If anyone then subsequently “steals” the preset, it’s got the original name, but mostly I do that so that I remember where the presets I make are coming from. Easier to identify what I want to use that way.

]]> By: Chris http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10632 Chris Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:20:06 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10632 Does anyone know how to duplicate a preset and then update it? I have a number of presets I'd like to make my own versions of, but I don't want to "overwrite" the original preset. How do I do that? Does anyone know how to duplicate a preset and then update it? I have a number of presets I’d like to make my own versions of, but I don’t want to “overwrite” the original preset. How do I do that?

]]> By: Cobus Taljaard http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10631 Cobus Taljaard Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:48:05 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10631 Hi Matt - this is my first time commenting; long time reader and video watcher. Before applying any of my "stolen" ;-) presets, I would like to run a base development preset of my own. This base development preset does a auto-contrast (amongst other things), but it often results in images' exposure cranked down too much due to some small bright spot somewhere in the photo. I have looked at the .lrtemplate file to see if there is some way of fine tuning the amount of exposure compensation allowed, but I can't see if something like that is doable. I would really appreciate it if you could have a look into it: how to fine tune auto exposure in order to limit the amount of adjustment it can do and to ignore small bright spots. (I seem to recall some setting whereby the initial "x" percentage of the histogram at both ends is ignored and auto setting is then applied on the portion "in the middle") Wishing the best for you and your family in 2010 all the way from sunny South Africa. Hi Matt – this is my first time commenting; long time reader and video watcher.

Before applying any of my “stolen” ;-) presets, I would like to run a base development preset of my own. This base development preset does a auto-contrast (amongst other things), but it often results in images’ exposure cranked down too much due to some small bright spot somewhere in the photo. I have looked at the .lrtemplate file to see if there is some way of fine tuning the amount of exposure compensation allowed, but I can’t see if something like that is doable.

I would really appreciate it if you could have a look into it: how to fine tune auto exposure in order to limit the amount of adjustment it can do and to ignore small bright spots. (I seem to recall some setting whereby the initial “x” percentage of the histogram at both ends is ignored and auto setting is then applied on the portion “in the middle”)

Wishing the best for you and your family in 2010 all the way from sunny South Africa.

]]> By: Eric http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10630 Eric Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:02:29 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10630 You will be surprised what informations are stored in your developed jpg files. Lightroom for example stores a lot of its development setting inside the jpg by default (unless you strip off all Metadata). These informations are stored using IPTC-data. Here is a short example of an jpg of mine: crs:WhiteBalance:As Shot crs:Temperature:5400 crs:Tint:+2 crs:Exposure:0.00 crs:Shadows:6 crs:Brightness:+50 crs:Contrast:+20 crs:Saturation:0 crs:Sharpness:25 crs:LuminanceSmoothing:0 crs:ColorNoiseReduction:25 crs:SharpenRadius:+1.0 crs:SharpenDetail:25 crs:SharpenEdgeMasking:0 There are lots of additional informations available in the metadata or should I say the recipe is stored inside the picture... Happy New Year to all Eric You will be surprised what informations are stored in your developed jpg files. Lightroom for example stores a lot of its development setting inside the jpg by default (unless you strip off all Metadata). These informations are stored using IPTC-data. Here is a short example of an jpg of mine:
crs:WhiteBalance:As Shot
crs:Temperature:5400
crs:Tint:+2
crs:Exposure:0.00
crs:Shadows:6
crs:Brightness:+50
crs:Contrast:+20
crs:Saturation:0
crs:Sharpness:25
crs:LuminanceSmoothing:0
crs:ColorNoiseReduction:25
crs:SharpenRadius:+1.0
crs:SharpenDetail:25
crs:SharpenEdgeMasking:0

There are lots of additional informations available in the metadata or should I say the recipe is stored inside the picture…

Happy New Year to all

Eric

]]> By: Mike Weeks http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10629 Mike Weeks Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:51:37 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10629 To play devils advocate, as I understand it this particualrly Flickr utility reverse engineers "the recipe", it may or may not therefore get it 100% correct one assumes, in much the same way as many have tried to reverse engineer the infamous coke recipe or KFC recipe, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if someone actually did manage to break the code and replicate the recipe 100% Coke and the Colonel would be on your tail. Of course whilst uncovering "the recipe" for KFC or Coke is a big issue when you apply it to the basic static ingredient (Water or Chicken) applying the same LR settings to photographs which are always unique will never give you an identical product to that from which the recipe was reverse engineered anyway. To play devils advocate, as I understand it this particualrly Flickr utility reverse engineers “the recipe”, it may or may not therefore get it 100% correct one assumes, in much the same way as many have tried to reverse engineer the infamous coke recipe or KFC recipe, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if someone actually did manage to break the code and replicate the recipe 100% Coke and the Colonel would be on your tail. Of course whilst uncovering “the recipe” for KFC or Coke is a big issue when you apply it to the basic static ingredient (Water or Chicken) applying the same LR settings to photographs which are always unique will never give you an identical product to that from which the recipe was reverse engineered anyway.

]]> By: Dave DOugherty http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10628 Dave DOugherty Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:08:55 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10628 Is there a way to keep track of the number of times a preset is used? Is there a way to keep track of the number of times a preset is used?

]]> By: Mich http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10627 Mich Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:08:21 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10627 Thank you so much for sharing all these fantastic presets and tips! Love them!! Thank you so much for sharing all these fantastic presets and tips! Love them!!

]]> By: Eduardo Muese http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-how-to-steal-a-preset-and-make-it-your-own/#comment-10626 Eduardo Muese Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:14:47 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/?p=1897#comment-10626 I love the concept of the recipe. It's like the old pie recipe from grandma. We take it and add a new ingredient and create a brand new recipe for the generations to follow. There has been a lot of discussions as of lately about innovation and where everything comes from... It's the old argument that "There's nothing new under the sun", and everything we do is based on the work of someone that came before us. Great idea! I now feel much better than what I have been doing is somehow justified!! I love the concept of the recipe. It’s like the old pie recipe from grandma. We take it and add a new ingredient and create a brand new recipe for the generations to follow. There has been a lot of discussions as of lately about innovation and where everything comes from… It’s the old argument that “There’s nothing new under the sun”, and everything we do is based on the work of someone that came before us.

Great idea! I now feel much better than what I have been doing is somehow justified!!

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