Lightroom Presets – Focal Point with Blurry Backgrounds
A few weeks ago I released some Focal Point Lightroom presets that basically help you draw focus to one part of a photo by darkening other areas. Well, I was messing around with the presets the other day and realized that you could also do the same thing by blurring...
Lightroom Presets – Desaturated Sports Photo Presets
Not a great sports weekend here in Tampa. The Giants beat the Bucs. Even though I'm from New Jersey, I've been in Florida long enough (over 20 years) that I consider the Tampa Bay Bucs my home team. Sadly, my USF Bulls lost to Rutgers the other night too (yes, another...
Lightroom Presets – Game Day Presets for Sports Photography
I was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers/Broncos game yesterday (I'm a Bucs fan, but my son loves the Steelers) and I thought of a preset idea. See, I went to the University of South Florida and when I got a chance to shoot a home game for them I jumped at it. Now, the...
Lightroom Presets – Focal Point Background Effects
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...
Free Lightroom Presets – The Dark City Night
People love to shoot skylines and cities while traveling so I thought these would make a good recipe to try out on those photos. Like many of my presets, there are 3 flavors to this one (Light, Medium, Strong). They all have a slightly dark theme to them so if you...
Photoshop Myth Busters (And The Problem With Web Content That Never Dies)
I've been tossing around a series of posts called "Photoshop Myth Busters" for a while now and I thought I'd start one today. Basically, the idea came to me at a seminar a few months back when some one came up and asked a question about resizing. He said that...
Video Tutorial: Before and After with Lightroom and Photoshop (and a black & white conversion)
Hey everyone. I've got another Before/After video for you where I start from scratch in Lightroom, jump into Photoshop and back to Lightroom (but don't forget to scroll down because there's another post today). I'm even throwing in a black & white conversion in...
Lightroom Presets – Big Sky Landscapes
So, we're driving home last night, and I look west toward the beach to see this crazy-cool-cloudy sunset. We live in Florida and this time of year (with all of the thunderstorms out there), you can imagine some of the dramatic scenes we get. So it got me thinking...
Some Thoughts on Reviews and a Quick Follow Up to the Tiffen Dfx Review
Hey everyone. First, don't forget to scroll down to the next post. I'm giving away a ticket to my upcoming Lightroom seminars. Next... I wanted to post a quick follow up to the Tiffen review from yesterday. I realized from some questions I got on the social media...
Review: Tiffen Dfx V3 Lightroom/Photoshop Plug-In
I've been wanting to try out Tiffen's Dfx V3 Lightroom and Photoshop plug-in for a while now. So I installed it a few weeks ago and started diving in. I've gotta tell ya up front. I'm a total onOne Software and Nik Software snob. For a while, I've felt that all I...
Lightroom Presets – Portrait Black & Whites
You'll see there are 4 presets in this download. One of them is an all-purpose B&W effect that I use most of the time. But there's a few others for outdoors, beaches (which is a little different than the general outdoors one, and indoor portraits). Remember,...
Lightroom Presets – Black & White for Landscape Photos
You'll see there's 4 presets in this download. I went through my photos and realized that most of my landscape photography falls into several categories (canyons, beaches, photos with lots of green in them, and photos with a lot of sky in them). So I created the...