I always like reading your blog as it is very inspiring, interesting and great fun with using presets. However, I came across this look that I am trying to reproduce for quite some time in lightroom, but just can’t seem to nail it. Could you give a go at it maybe? That would be great. The look is explained in detail at:
http://kammagamma.com/articles/m8-colors.php

The great thing for me about this look is that is looks less digital, but gives the photographs a very human honest feel. instead of the harsh look easily done in Lightroom, although a great look, I want to also investigate this subtle look.

Thanks and with regards,
Niels

Hope it wasn’t crossing any lines posting the fix for lightroom not seeing CS3 as the primary editor, Adobe also has a kb solution if someone is more comfortable doing it from them, however they go through all the steps to modify the registry and you should be comfortable doing that if you go that route. Now on to the preset: Very good preset, I used it selectively on different types of images, and it works good on most of them, I had the most success with flower macro shots, and with the others only minor tweaking, just the normal stuff you and everyone have already mentioned, exposure, vignetting and it seemed like most of them had a little too much pop, but after a few minor adjustments, the photos were good to go. It was my first experience with downloaded presets, I am going to experiment with a few more I think, I got good results with little work and in a short time, which is what we all are looking for in editing, the less time in photoshop the more time behind the camera, where all of us are comfortable.

Besides the obvious that Matt pointed out, not having CS3 installed, lightroom sometimes has a problem with the path for CS3 in the registry. I only know because I had the same thing happen to me, I did some research and found the fix. This is assuming that you have CS3 installed in the default folder. Here it is, just copy and paste this into a notepad page:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Photoshop.exe]
“path”=”C:\\Program files\\Adobe\\Adobe Photoshop CS3″
@=”C:\\Program files\\Adobe\\Adobe Photoshop CS3\\photoshop.exe”

Save it as “CS3_path.reg”
double click it, click OK to the prompt and restart lightroom.
It should have CS3 as the default editor now.

Thank you, your “share with everyone” mentality is truly appreciated (in support of YOU I bought Layers…

Thanks for all your work Matt, it is extremely helpful and really smoothed my transition to using LR now for nearly 95% of my work.

One request: any way you can either eliminate the word “Matt’s” from your presets or putit at the end of the preset name? For those of us that have smaller-ish monitors it makes reading the preset names more difficult due to reduced screen real estate with the left hand menu. Makes searching/scanning visually fr a specific preset harder.