This week I’m updating my Fall Color presets. I was talking to my brother yesterday (who lives in the Northeast US) and he was saying how a lot of the leaves are changing color. Now, when I grew up, my dad was absolutely meticulous about our backyard, so the fall season only reminds me of many days of raking leaves after school – not pretty colors. But as an adult I can appreciate the season more (especially since I live in Florida and don’t have to worry about leaves anymore) 😉
Anyway, I do like to photograph the northeast and I realized, as I was going through my photos from the area, that I was making some of the same tweaks to many of my “fall color” photos, so I made a preset for it. Here’s a quick before and after so you can get an idea how it looks:
- Here’s the link to download the presets for Lightroom 4 (I made them for LR4. You can try them in LR3 but they’re tuned for LR4 specifically).
- And here’s a link to a video on how to install and organize Lightroom presets if you don’t know how.
Have a good one!
Greetings, Matt:
Do these Presets for Fall work with Lightroom CC? Do not have Lightroom 4
Thank you
Les
Hi. Yes, they work for all versions of LR. They were just created back in LR4.
Will these work in Lightroom CC?
Just found your site through a Google search and am patiently waiting for Lightroom 4 to be delivered today! Looking forward to learning more about presets and making my photos a little more magical…thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing.
Okey, this is Murphy’s Law incarnate. As soon as I asked about installing presets, I blindly stumbled onto this video in your lightroomkillertips.com site and there was the answer. http://lightroomkillertips.com/2011/video-installing-and-organizing-presets/
You did mention that it was time for you to do a video on the topic and it was MY time.
Thanks,
MW
Your previous video about Camera Picture Style presets was very interesting, I want to use them. However, I am new to Lightroom and I can’t find out how to upload the Canon (well, any) presets into Lr. Where can I look? I’ve tried the help lines in NAPP PsUsers and the Googleverse, no luck. I must be phrasing the questions improperly. I have Kelby’s Lr book on the way but I doubt that your ideas are in it.
Thanks Matt.
Hello Matt. Sorry to be a pain but what programme should i open the files in after i’ve clicked on the zipped file? Accidently changed the settings to open in notepad!! Can’t seem to get them back.
Thanks for the preset 🙂
Just out of curiosity though… Did the preset also miraculously add some foliage to the top of those two trees in the center of the first “after” photo? :-p
Ha! I was waiting for some one to notice that. Right before I saved the “After” image I saw some telephone wires and just dead tree branches that I couldn’t resist retouching out. That would be one really cool LR preset though wouldn’t it? 🙂
Yup, that would be a great time saver 🙂
Matt,
Your timing on this is impeccable!!! We are just now going through all our photos from our vacation in the UP and Michigan. We have some great autumn photos and these will get me through the process really fast! Thank you so much!
Dennis
Thanks Matt,
During the worldwide photowalk I took a few shots that will need just the kind of tweaks these presets provide. I’m sure the shots will quickly go from drab to fab!
Thank you! 🙂