Photoshop Hall of Fame winner Jack Davis has put together over 25 presets for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and has made them available as a free download! Just go on over to the OnOne Software site. You can click here to go directly to the download page.
Unlike many presets, Jack has designed these to be used as an orderly workflow that minimizes the need to move a lot of sliders to reach your goals. Also included on the download page are about 30 minutes of video tutorials. Here Jack walks you through how to use these presets.
This is an excellent set of presets and shows the enormous potential for photographers to share their workflows with the rest of the new and growing Lightroom community. Thanks Jack!!
If you’ve had a chance to play with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom then you’ve no doubt discovered that you can customize the interface with your own identity plate. Lightroom allows you to replace the default logo and name in the upper left corner with your own text or graphic identity plate.
That same Identity plate can be used in the Slideshow and Print modules to add a touch of customization to your presentations. But there is more to the identity plate than meets the eye!
In Photoshop, you can create custom borders or overlays that Lightroom can use in the Print module. Any area left transparent will let your photograph show through. For example, go to Photoshop and create a stylized black border. Leave the center area transparent and save the file. In Lightroom, go to the Print module. In the panels on the right you will see a section for Overlays. Check the identity plate checkbox. You can then use the drop down to locate your new border. Lightroom will bring it in (usually at a smaller size). Using the scale slider or the handles, resize the border to fit your image. The black border obscures the edge and the transparency lets your photo show through! THis also works in the Slideshow module.
Go ahead and experiment! Colored borders, marbled borders, even embossed copyright overlays will work! There’s something new to find in Lightroom everyday!
