A while back I had an idea about using the adjustment brush to create a focal point in certain parts of the photo (by darkening the rest of the photo). The vignetting controls (in the Effects panel) are great for doing this but if your subject isn’t in the middle of the photo then it doesn’t work as well. So I figured I could use the adjustment brush to darken parts of the photo and save it as a preset. Nope! I quickly found out you couldn’t save adjustment brush controls as a preset, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with this idea instead. I’ve created 8 different presets that each use the Graduated Filter to do something similar. 4 of them are for Portraits (or portrait oriented images) and 4 of them are for landscape oriented photos (top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right). Enjoy ‘em and let me know what you think!
Here’s the before/after:
- Here’s the link to download the presets for Lightroom 4.
- And here’s a link to a video on how to install and organize Lightroom presets if you don’t know how.
Enjoy!
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.
Hello everybody , I am new on lightroom please tell me if you have any instruction on how to get all those fade earth tone that everybody is using on their pictures and how can i go by learning the first steps please
Hi, I have been using your presets for a while and really find them useful. I have one question–I mainly use Camera Raw for my processing and if I use your preset I have to transfer the file to Lightroom and back again. Is there any way of transferring the presets to Camera Raw, alternatively is there a quick way of transferring the files between lightroom and Camera Raw. Thanks again for your presets.I use Mac.
Thank you Matt, worked great for my project.
Thank you very much, Matt! :o)
Thanks for these, Matt. I like how they make my photos ‘pop’.
wow thanks for the present. works great.
I am not native english speaker and I did’nt really understand where you put your ‘. Irtemplate’. Is it in the develop presets files or in the local adjustment presets files ? tks
Capsicum
Thanks so much for creating and sharing these, Matt. I have really enjoyed them and they make great jumping off points for creating others.
I just upgraded to a MacBook Pro. I get your RSS feed to my email in Safari. However, I have had trouble trying to get the RSS feed on the new Mac. It doesn’t work anymore and wants you to go through Google. I prefer to get it on my email – any suggestions as to how to get this.
i just love the presets and use the HDR one the most. Thanks so much
Hmmm. I just used Chrome and it tries to open an RSS reader plug-in of sorts. Not sure about Safari. I used Firefox though and it worked fine. Here’s the link:
https://mattk.com/feed/
These are fantastic Matt! You always seem to come up with something I’ve been trying to do! 🙂 I noticed that some of them have two or more gradients. I’m assuming this was to simulate a circle? I’ve been working on some photos I took of a Cross Walk from our old church to our new church and was trying to figure out a way to focus lighting on the Cross in each picture … now I know!
Thanks Matt!
Dennis
Thanks for yet another clever L4 preset, Mr. K!
No sweat!
… is there a way to “stack” the presets (add two)?
Not really. You can add two but te second will overwrite any settings that the first uses
Matt, worked great, love that you can just scroll through them! I used a landscape preset on a portrait crop and it looked great. Thanks again
Thank you! I’ve already tried out one of your presets today and it worked great!
Matt,
The presets never seem to stop flowing from your mind, do they!?
Thanks!
Unfortuately many things stop flowing from my mind 😉