Lightroom Preset: Green Bleach Bypass Cross Process

In developing this preset I was looking for something that would add a slight green hue to the shot without using a graduated filter.



It was important that the green was prevalent in the mid-tones and hinted at in the highlights. It wasn’t until after I had the look that I was looking for that I realized that it looked like a cross of a bleach bypass-like look with Cross Processing.

 

This was accomplished using a green and silver split tone on the image. The green was applied to the shadows and the silver was applied to the highlights.

 
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To install the preset, copy the file in the zip (xxx.lrtemplate) to your Develop Presets folder on your computer. If you don't know where to find this folder, open Lightroom. Click on Edit menu and select Preferences. Click on the Presets tab and click the Show Lightroom Presets Folder... button.

Ahoy, me Hearties!

Envy of Vermont

All ye avast, fall is coming on our stern as we leave summer in our wake. Blimey! Where hast the last year gone to? Davey Jones' locker I suspect.

Aye, the year has been good to me and my maties with plenty of booty and doubloons for all my fellow buccaneers.

As we batten down the haches and heave ho into fall lads and lasses all over are preparin for me favorite time of year; fall colors. So grab ye cutlass, weigh the anchor, hoist the mizzen and fly ye jolly roger with pride as we be head'n into fine seas for taken some pictures.

Old salts and young bucks alike, lasses are welcome to board to: Grab yer spy'n eye cause thar she blows. Don't go a hornswagling yerself by miss'n a fine opportunity to capture some fall booty for ye chest, least ye be want'n to keelhaul yerself. The time is now to pillage and plunder the season of color. Don't be forgett'n ye rum, cause it be gett'n cold out there.


Pumpkin Leaves

 To set you off on your vouyage, let me send ye off with a chantey to sing while ye toil in the sea of fall colors:
Out pops the yellow, warm in tone and texture. It jumps into frame...

Singing blow the winds south by gentle north be. Cooler winds prevail and colors come to me.


Out pops the red, vibrant in tone and contrast. It jumps into frame...


Singing blow the winds south by gentle north be. Cooler winds prevail and colors come to me.


Out pops the orange, cheery in tone and feeling. It jumps into frame...
Singing blow the winds south by gentle north be. Cooler winds prevail and colors come to me.
 
Until next time... may your sails be full of wind and yer aim be true.

Lightroom Preset: Civil War



Civil War: Before the Preset

 One of the powerful elements of Lightroom is the power of the presets. It isn't that presets are particularly interesting or useful in every work flow, but they can save a ton of time for certain types or groups of images.

To the left is the an image taken at a civil war reenactment. By itself, without any processing it is a nice image of a soldier clearing the breach of a cannon that has been fired.

But the photo fails to look authentic to the period. It has strong colors, looks new and fresh: this alone fails to inspire and tell a story I wanted told. Instead it looks like a current day reenactment and that is not what I wanted at all.

Civil War: After the Preset

When I got home from this shoot I knew the look I wanted for the 1200 or so images that I shot at the reenactment. So rather than hand process all 1200 of the images, I used a preset that I developed from a previous reenactment shoot and applied the preset to all 1200 images automatically while I added them to my catalog.

And while I went back into each image to fine tune it, the act of applying the preset to all of the images saved me hours of work applying the settings by hand; adjusting blacks, exposure, sharpening, saturation, and dozens more.

This preset strenthens the shadows, blows out the hightlights a little, desaturates the red, yellows and greens and adds a little punch to the smoke.

For those of you who like the looks of this preset and would like to use it please feel free to download it using the link below. Once a week I will publish a new preset for you to be able to use.

Enjoy.

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To install copy the file in the zip to your Develop Presets folder on your computer. If you don't know where to find this folder, open Lightroom. Click on Edit menu and select Preferences. Click on the Presets tab and click the Show Lightroom Presets Folder... button.