Hi everyone. One of the things that just about all of my photos get is a vignette to darken the edges. It really helps bring in focus on your photos, and makes a great finishing touch. It’s also perfect for a preset because it’s something that’s very repeatable, and the settings stay the same (or almost the same) for each time I use it.
You’ll see 3 different versions here – Light, Medium, and Strong. Depending on the photo and how dark the edges already are, I usually use the Light or Medium version. But feel free to go with the Strong one if your photo can take it without starting to look fake around the edges.
- The preset downloads for Lightroom 4 are below (I made them for LR4. You can try them in LR3 but they’re tuned for LR4 specifically):
- Click here to download the Lightroom Vignette Presets.
- And here’s a link to a video on how to install and organize Lightroom presets if you don’t know how.
Hope you enjoy. Have a good one!
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
Thank you very much! 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to create all your wonderful presets. I use them more than any other pre-made enhancements for my pics. Wonderful Holiday Wishes to you.
Hi Matt, These will certainly save time. I have a question though. Where do you extract your zip files to? Certainly you don’t just leave them floating around in your “downloads” do you?
Hmmm. Never really think about it. I just double click to open them. Then install the presets and delete the zip folder and any files left from it. Once you install the presets into LR you don’t need any original zip files or folders as they get moved to the right place. 🙂
So, installing them moves them. Huh! Maybe that’s why I can’t find a folder anywhere with all my other presets. They’re in my Develop Module, but dang if I know where they “really” reside. What you’re saying is “don’t sweat what you don’t need to sweat.” Not my nature, but I’ll try.
Yup. Don’t worry about the techie stuff 🙂
However, if you right click on any preset you can choose Show In Finder/Explorer and it’ll show you were they “live” 😉
Hi Matt. Do you have these available for Camera Raw? Thanks.
Nope.
Thanks Matt and Xmas greetings
Very nice, these are really close to what I have been doing myself, nice to have a one click option
Thank you!
Hi Matt! These are Great! I’ve been going into Nik CEP4 and using their Darken and Lighten recipe. Now I don’t have to leave LR! Nice work!
Dennis
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