Comments on: Presets - Deep Blue Sky

By: Timothy Mathews

Timothy Mathews — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:45:08 +0000

I’ve been using the free WOW presets from Onone Software for some time and just checked them against these presets. They create less noise, though only the first and second options really seem usable as the 3rd WOW preset makes the sky purpleish.

By: Peter Marcaurelle

Peter Marcaurelle — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:43:53 +0000

Hi Matt,

I’m getting the same “mottled or dappled appearance ” as mention above.
It doesn’t appear in all images and seems more pronounced on images where I have used a polarizer.

On other images however, the presets are just what the doctor ordered.

I hope you don’t mind if I try to help Matt Denton-

Matt D.- what I have done for the copyright is to create a copyright symbol and appropriate text in photoshop and then I removed the background to get a transparent background behind the symbol and text (NOTE: make the image size to fit largest image). I then saved the resulting image as a png file (retaining the transparency).

You then can apply the copyright as a identity plate on top of your images and since it is transparent, the image will show through . You can change the size and opacity to suit.

You can print out this combination, however, exporting the resulting output as a jpeg will have to wait for Lr 2.0 or you can use the PDF work around that Matt K described in a previous posting.

NOTE: I know this works on a Windows system, do not know about Mac.

Peter

By: Matt Denton

Matt Denton — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:11:22 +0000

Matt:

Love the site and love the Layers book!! I am really getting a lot of great tips and ideas from it. And the best part - it is so well written and easy to follow. It rocks!

Here is a question on a preset. Is it possible to have a watermark preset made? Right now I am adding them in CS# - but if there is a Lightroom way - that would totally rock!

Thanks for the great Killer tips, the Layers book and all the great training tips you provide.

Take care

By: Frank Damon

Frank Damon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:16:39 +0000

Hey Matt:
Your presets are terrific and I really appreciate them. This new one is especially good, as you say, with skies with any amount of blue in it, and then I combined it with your midnight blue preset and it was amazing. I also put one of the deep blue sky effects on a photo with green foliage in the background. It created an almost surreal grainy effect–beyond cool! As a wise person has said–experiment, you never know what you will get.
Frank

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:31:24 +0000

Hey Matt,
Just wanted you to know how much I appreciate the presets…I just downloaded the Lightroom 2.0 Beta so that I could see if Lightroom is a must have — and I have been impressed. I haven’t really gotten a new workflow figured out yet, but I still have another week or two before my 30 days is up, so hopefully by then I will know if this is a program I can’t live without. If nothing else, presets do incredible things to my photos and the whole “click of a button” ease is amazing.

At any rate, huge fan here and I wanted you to know!

By: John B

John B — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:45:10 +0000

Martin(above).
I see what you mean. It looks like noise to me.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:29:27 +0000

Martin
A workaround for the dappled look you mentioned can be a combination of adjusting the saturation and luminance.

I like using this polarizing effect to bring out clouds in the sky that can be hard to see in a washed out sky.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:25:33 +0000

Matt, thanks for the preset… its exactly what I was looking for..

By: lux

lux — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:49:54 +0000

tanks for your job.
i have in my lightroom library presets more matt’s presets and they work fine.
sorry for my english..

from italy

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:16 +0000

I’ve got the WOW presets which also have three presets for the sky, but none of them are as pleasing as these seem to be.