Monday Presets - Vintage New York Look
Here's an effect that works great for portraits. It's got that desaturated look that is often associated with the whole vintage style that's so popular. Plus, it's a popular effect for city (New York-ish) style photos these days. It's primarily geared toward portraits. One thing you'll notice if you look at the settings after you apply it, is that I bumped up the Orange and Yellows in the HSL panel to bring back some life to the skin (you gotta love Lightroom). As I mentioned earlier, this is mainly geared towards portraits but give it a try on other types of photos as I've gotten some really fantastic results.
Download the presets here
- See the Before/After view of the presets here
- Download the presets here.
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November 8th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Thanks! I love your presets
November 8th, 2007 at 10:06 am
omg. that rocks. thanks matt!
November 8th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I’m primarily a landscaper, so I played with these presets on some of my recent fall images - pretty cool. Thanks, Matt! Keep ‘em coming!!
November 8th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Hi Matt,this preset by far is one of my favorites. I used this on an old building picture and it looks awesome…
I have been using Lightroom since the beginning and it is by far my favorite program next to PS of course.
Thanks again for the great tips and presets in Lightroom!
Mike
November 8th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Cheers mate, have been playing around with photo’s i took on a trip to new york a couple of month ago, so it was cool you came up with these
November 10th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Matt,
I’m a new Lightroom user…once I download your presets, how do I get to them?
Thanks!
November 10th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
This is a great preset! I just used it on a slightly underexposed portrait, and wow!!
Thanx Matt!
November 14th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
wow, this looks awesome.
…however, i can’t see to upload to lightroom; i download three adjustment settings, but can’t get them into lightroom.
please help, thank-you.
amee
November 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
nevermind, got it!
thanks.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Matt, when I click on the link to download preset….the browser goes blank. Please help…
Thanks,
Johanna
November 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Ok…I’m a moron. I downloaded it:). Cheers!
December 5th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
this is an amazing preset! thank you!
would you mind giving some history about it?
anything on the web that exemplifies what the originals looked like?
thanks again!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Matt, I recently took a number of photos at a nature center festival that focused on the period 1900-1920. Your vintage New York presets were perfect for putting those photos back in time! Many thanks!!
December 12th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Thank you so much for this….on a recent model shoot it saved my ass:)
December 18th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Hi Matt, your NY preset is simply wonderful…i love the desaturation look resulted by this preset…this is now my ‘fitst to go’ preset…I did small modification to suit my needs, basically by increasing the clarity and contrast…the results can be seen here: http://www.pbase.com/aaregar/macy
(pictures taken last month at the Macy’s Parade in NY)…
Again, BIG THANKS!
arsyad
January 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Hey, I was just at the Sublime Light website and saw a sample of your NY vintage preset. I absolutely love it! Unfortunately, I don’t have Lightroom yet. Is there a way to download it to PS CS3 or can you create the same effect in CS3 for us that don’t have it yet? Thanks!
January 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
When I click on Matt’s Pano Print Template.Irtemplate, I get this message ” Error importing ” Matt’s Pano Print Template.Irtemplate. The preset file was the wrong type of preset”. What am I doing incorrectly?
September 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
LOVE your presets. I just downloaded this and I can’t wait to try it out. Thanks for always being so generous!!
January 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Thanks, Matt! I’m in the process of learning LR so this is a welcome site.