I’ve been using Lightroom Presets like crazy these days, as well as working on my own Lightroom Preset collections. I’ve decided to add to the mix of free lightroom presets, with a few of my favorites that come from my Power Workflow Lightroom presets collection. If you like preset’s, you’ll love Power Workflow.
On to the free stuff. These have both RAW & JPEG versions just like you’ll find in my Power Workflow collection. You can also find more free presets, actions and effects over my Seim Effects Blog.
These are a few of my favorite special effects from my Power Workflow. 400 is loosely based on the very popular “300″series by Mikelao. It’s a cool fantasy effect that adds some snappy drama to a scene.
Fantasy is a preset I use all the time, and have found it to be very useful since it gives a creative look. Fantasy Basic is a great lightweight general use effect that gives a nice gentle look. It works great on nearly any image. There’s more variations in the my complete set but this should get you rocking!
While the monitor is nice, I am most interested in getting behind the lens and checking out the new 51-point auto focus system. It’s coupled with Nikon’s new 3D Focus Tracking Feature and, as long rumored, a live preview of the image on the LCD screen.
Many of us know what the histogram is, and many of us simply know what it looks like but have no idea how to use it, or what it can do for us. We won’t delve into the deep dark depths of the histogram today, but rather talk about it’s basics and how you can use a cool feature in Lightroom to make quick corrections to images. You can also watch the video for an actual walkthrough.
One guy lost 27 pounds by using the histogram…
Above we see the Lightroom RGB histogram, and as you see in the bright red letter left is darker, and right is lighter. Starting with that basic idea you can learn a lot about an image. Using LR however you can go a step further.
