Comments on: Tuesday’s Monday Presets http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/ Photoshop Lightroom News, Tips, Tutorials, Videos and more. Simplify Photography from shoot to finish. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:45:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Rich Lemmon http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20182 Rich Lemmon Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:31:56 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20182 Matt, Firstly, thanks for the excellent suggestions; I regularyly visit your site. The one area that I'm not clear on is cropping to print versus cropping to view on my website. I will take approx. 250 photos during a shoot. Next, I narrow them down to about 20-30 keepers. I crop them to what looks good on my website and post them for users to review. Once I'm ready to print, I find that the web-crop doesn't necessarily match the cropping sizes offered by my printing company. As a result, I have to re-crop the photo to fit into a standard format (5x7, 8x10...etc) which almost always means losing or including more information than I wanted to. Am I doing something incorrectly? Do you have any advice on the best way to crop-once and use for both web and print? Thanks!!! Rich Lemmon Matt,

Firstly, thanks for the excellent suggestions; I regularyly visit your site.

The one area that I’m not clear on is cropping to print versus cropping to view on my website. I will take approx. 250 photos during a shoot. Next, I narrow them down to about 20-30 keepers. I crop them to what looks good on my website and post them for users to review.

Once I’m ready to print, I find that the web-crop doesn’t necessarily match the cropping sizes offered by my printing company. As a result, I have to re-crop the photo to fit into a standard format (5×7, 8×10…etc) which almost always means losing or including more information than I wanted to.

Am I doing something incorrectly? Do you have any advice on the best way to crop-once and use for both web and print?

Thanks!!!

Rich Lemmon

]]> By: lsim001 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20172 lsim001 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:41:09 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20172 Thanks for the presets. Also I thought having some samples of the presets in use was a good idea. It's just the "picture speaks louder than words" cliche. Thanks for the presets. Also I thought having some samples of the presets in use was a good idea. It’s just the “picture speaks louder than words” cliche.

]]> By: KennyD http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20171 KennyD Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:36:46 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20171 Thanks Matt. You're the best, no matter what my fellow canuck Dave Cross might say :-) Thanks Matt. You’re the best, no matter what my fellow canuck Dave Cross might say :-)

]]> By: mattk http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20169 mattk Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:07:25 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20169 Kenny, You can create presets in ACR as well but you can't take the LR presets and use them there. You'd have to mimic the settings used from LR in ACR. (it's just not as smooth though) Matt K Kenny,
You can create presets in ACR as well but you can’t take the LR presets and use them there. You’d have to mimic the settings used from LR in ACR. (it’s just not as smooth though)

Matt K

]]> By: KennyD http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20157 KennyD Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:40:04 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20157 Hey Matt - thanks for a great blog and all the presets you do. I know this is a LR blog, but I was wondering if there was any way for those of us who just use Bridge + ACR to use these presets - after all, LR developing is just a skin of ACR, right? Hey Matt - thanks for a great blog and all the presets you do. I know this is a LR blog, but I was wondering if there was any way for those of us who just use Bridge + ACR to use these presets - after all, LR developing is just a skin of ACR, right?

]]> By: Peter M http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20156 Peter M Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:37:19 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20156 Matt, Thanks for the "cool", I mean "hot", no I mean "warm" presets. I did a quick preset to one of the images I took one evening, just outside of Zion and used your warm preset and increased blacks to create a silhouette. No other adjustments made except your preset and blacks within Lightroom. (plus crop) You can see before and after on my NAPP portfolio. http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/view/gallery/791376 Keep up the good work, Matt,

Thanks for the “cool”, I mean “hot”, no I mean “warm” presets.

I did a quick preset to one of the images I took one evening, just outside of Zion and used your warm preset and increased blacks to create a silhouette.

No other adjustments made except your preset and blacks within Lightroom. (plus crop)

You can see before and after on my NAPP portfolio.
http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/view/gallery/791376

Keep up the good work,

]]> By: Thom Dombrowski http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20150 Thom Dombrowski Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:04:07 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20150 Matt Thanks for the info.. I just happened to be there by accident, and it was a great accident. Matt

Thanks for the info.. I just happened to be there by accident, and it was a great accident.

]]> By: mattk http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20149 mattk Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:02:57 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20149 Hi Thom, Man... I'm jealous. I've been wanting to go to the balloon festival for years. I can never seem to get out there. Oh well. As for washed out toward the horizon, that happens a lot. That's where all of the light is and many times it tends to be the most lifeless part of the sunset. Not always but it happens on my photos as well. Anyway, thanks! Matt K Hi Thom,
Man… I’m jealous. I’ve been wanting to go to the balloon festival for years. I can never seem to get out there. Oh well. As for washed out toward the horizon, that happens a lot. That’s where all of the light is and many times it tends to be the most lifeless part of the sunset. Not always but it happens on my photos as well. Anyway, thanks!

Matt K

]]> By: Thom Dombrowski http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20148 Thom Dombrowski Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:48:55 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/tuesdays-monday-presets/#comment-20148 Matt Thanks, I used them on some photos that I took at the balloon fiesta in N.M. I have been(have) had a hard time getting a consistent color across the sky. They help out.. I have a problem where some of the photos taken, have the nice blue sky in the middle and top, and then gets washed out as you come to the horizon. Some day I will take the time to learn Photoshop and get the results I want. As always, thanks for the presets. Thom Matt

Thanks, I used them on some photos that I took at the balloon fiesta in N.M. I have been(have) had a hard time getting a consistent color across the sky. They help out.. I have a problem where some of the photos taken, have the nice blue sky in the middle and top, and then gets washed out as you come to the horizon. Some day I will take the time to learn Photoshop and get the results I want. As always, thanks for the presets.

Thom

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