soft slight sepia baby photo LR Preset

[Hamish Gill]

This is obviously slightly corny ... but does provide a good example of a lightroom preset ... all be it a very over done one

Turns an image from this

into this

download here

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/downloads/soft_slight_sepia_baby_photo_LR_Preset.zip

 

[Pete Askew]

Definitely better than lilac I'll give you that and quite a nice reverse vignette too.

 

[Hamish Gill]

its really just an ott example in the hope it might inspire some people to come up with the goods and make and share some more
did you download it Pete?

 

[Pete Askew]

Not yet but I will to try the process. I normally use SilverFX from LR for this sort of thing.

 

[Dave Moss]

I find that turnng things sepa in lightroom normally over brightens the subject you can get around this by turnng the subject sepia then clicking auto level

 

[Hamish Gill]

Are you talking about using split tones?
I've not experienced this ...
I'll have to have a look...
This was made a bit over bright for effect, it's really quite ott, but it got the LR preset ball rolling

 

[Dave Moss]

I will pop out later and take a few shots and use one to explain what I mean might be split tone but I know I prefer the effect

 

[Hamish Gill]

... Ah, my brain has just kicked in!
Is it a sepia lr preset? One of the presets that comes with Lightroom ...
I'm with you now!
I was very tired last night!
I you got into lightroom, set the image to black and white
Then in the split tone controls set the colour sliders to 46ish
Then up the saturation sliders to taste
That's a good starting point for sepia without anything else being effected ..

 

[Dave Moss]

Yep must admit I prefer to use antique grayscale as the base for the shot rather than sepia as I feel the tones are better

 

[Hamish Gill]

Ah, I just wing it...
I haven't played with the Lightroom out of the box presets much!
I didn't find the presets feture for ages after I bought the software so I think my process with the way it works took a different path ... I started, and still to this day, just work down the settings on the right hand column until I'm happy.
Since finding the presets I just use them to save my own settings and apply them to other photos within a set!
I have stacks of presets I have saved, sometimes I go back to them for reference but I just find my self getting confused with the setting I have used if I don't start from scratch each time ...
Silly really I guess, but I suppose we all have these different ways of working ...

 

[Hamish Gill]

Check this out ...

Scroll down to the bottom

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[Dave Moss]

Well the Japanese seem to like it Hamish!

 

[Paul Lange]

Alphaville - Big in japan Official Video - YouTube
Your Big In Japan!

 

[Pete Askew]

Excellent. I have a colleague in Japan who does weddings. I'll point it out to him! Maybe we'll even get some members from Japan.

 

[Dave Moss]

thought I would give it a go as my 2 day old nephew came around


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