Guest sirvine Posted April 16, 2007 Share #1 Posted April 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Purely in the interest of knowledge sharing, I'm linking to a zip file with the five Lightroom presets that I use most often to get a relatively neutral starting point for further processing of M8 DNG files. Please feel free to use and share these (and modify them too) as you see fit. It would be nice if people would continue sharing their modifications, but it's up to you. I don't pretend that these are perfect in any way, and my workstation is not professionally calibrated. These just work for me, and maybe yourself too. Some notes on the presets themselves: 1. Leica_M8_-AutoWB_noSharp_noNR_-Calibrated.lrtemplate This is an autoWB preset, which is calibrated for nice colors, moderate contrast and moderate saturation. Exposure is +0.43, which is about right for shooting with no exposure comp in the camera, in my experience. Why? Maybe I prefer to shoot ever so slightly underexposed in some cases to avoid camera shake or blurred movement, and let the wonderful DNG save the detail anyway. 2. Leica_M8_-AutoWB_-Sharp_noNR_-Calibration.lrtemplate This is the same as #1 but with +36 sharpening. 3. Leica_M8_-_Flesh_Calibration.lrtemplate While the first two presets change almost all parameters of the develop module, this one and the next only apply to the camera calibration settings. I find this setting gives a nice flesh tone, not too red. Is there a more elusive and subjective standard than "nice flesh tone"? Probably not. For the record, I've tested this preset on people of nearly every race and flesh tone, and it works to my eye. 4. Leica_M8_-_Neutral_Calibration.lrtemplate I find the flesh tone calibration above is not quite right for exteriors or shots where people are not the focus. This is the camera calibration which I prefer in such cases. This calibration is the same one that is applied under presets nos. 1 and 2 above by default. 5. Leica_M8_-_All_Neutral.lrtemplate Beleive it or not, Lightroom's default develop parameters are not "zero'd". There is by default a stupid amount of brightness and contrast added. This preset zero's all the sliders, but applies the neutral camera calibration settings of preset no. 4 above. The zip file is here: http://homepage.mac.com/soli/Leica_M8_LR_Presets.zip Enjoy, and post your experiences here, if you have a moment! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Hi Guest sirvine, Take a look here M8 Lightroom Presets. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
replay Posted April 17, 2007 Share #2 Posted April 17, 2007 Sorry for the dumb question. How do I move the presets over to Lightroom. Thanks for working on the presets. Jim Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjmcsu Posted April 17, 2007 Share #3 Posted April 17, 2007 Drag/copy to the following folders: Windows:C:\Document & Settings\<your_user name_>\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets Mac;~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Develop Presets or in Lightroom under presets control(right click) on a preset & click on open in finder & drag/copy to this folder Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Mondello Posted April 17, 2007 Share #4 Posted April 17, 2007 Sorry for the dumb question. How do I move the presets over to Lightroom. Thanks for working on the presets. Jim Ditto on the dumb question AND on the thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
replay Posted April 17, 2007 Share #5 Posted April 17, 2007 Drag/copy to the following folders: Windows:C:\Document & Settings\<your_user name_>\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets Mac;~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Develop Presets or in Lightroom under presets control(right click) on a preset & click on open in finder & drag/copy to this folder Francisco Thanks for the quick answer. I love this forum!!. Jim Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtmerideth Posted April 17, 2007 Share #6 Posted April 17, 2007 I need more help. In the ps string there is no Develop Presets and in the Lightroom install I don't know where to begin. I really appreciate Sol's efforts and I want to install the presets very much. gary Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted April 17, 2007 Share #7 Posted April 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Wish I could help, but I'm not using PC. What happens if you right click on a preset in the PC version of Lightroom? On the Mac version, it offers to show you the folder where the file lives. Maybe PC has something similar? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtmerideth Posted April 17, 2007 Share #8 Posted April 17, 2007 Sol, Thanks for your reply. I am on Mac/apple. I gues I'm dense but I can't figure this out. When I use the string starting with Library ther is no Develop Presets after Lightroom. In the second string are you to start with Lightroom in the MacHD? If so the same issue occurs. gary Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjmcsu Posted April 17, 2007 Share #9 Posted April 17, 2007 Try the shortcut i mentioned:Control(right)click on a preset in Lightroon which should bring up a contextual menu & click on "show in finder" & that should also get you to the folder you need Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted April 17, 2007 Share #10 Posted April 17, 2007 Open a new finder window. On the left-hand side, click your home directory (shaped like a house, with your account name next to it). This will populate the window with a bunch of icons. Double click the folder labelled "Library"; a different set of icons will appear in the window. Double click the folder called "Application Support". More icons will appear. Double Click the folder called "Adobe". More icons will appear. Double click the folder labelled "Lightroom". More icons will appear. Now you should see a folder labelled "Develop Presets". Copy the files from the zip archive into this folder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted April 17, 2007 Share #11 Posted April 17, 2007 Also remember that in the path ( ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Develop Presets ) the "~" is your user account. In other words: [your username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Develop Presets. This is confusing in OS X, because there is also a Library directory under the main hard disk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtmerideth Posted April 17, 2007 Share #12 Posted April 17, 2007 Thanks to all, Bob, Francisco and Sol. Must not have slept well. Have only a few brain cells working today. I veery much appreciate your help. g. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted April 17, 2007 Share #13 Posted April 17, 2007 Thanks Sol! As mentioned elsewhere, I've only had my M8 for 4 days and am still feeling my way with development of DNG files in Lightroom, so this is a great help! All I need now is for someone to develop a preset to eliminate 'cyan corners' for the CV 15 and 18mm lenses when used with IR-cut filters... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted April 17, 2007 Share #14 Posted April 17, 2007 All I need now is for someone to develop a preset to eliminate 'cyan corners' for the CV 15 and 18mm lenses when used with IR-cut filters... There is something like this for Photoshop (not Lightroom). Panotools is the plug-in and it's open source, if I'm not mistaken. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted April 17, 2007 Share #15 Posted April 17, 2007 Mac users you need the Library that is your account for me it is guymancuso user than that library and continue from there . It is in the users library not the systems Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted April 17, 2007 Share #16 Posted April 17, 2007 By the way (more or less on topic), this thread over at the Lightroom User to User Forums is very interesting to anyone who thinks Lightroom's sharpening control is a shortcoming... Adobe Forums - LR sharpening in both Develop and Print? Looks like more robust sharpening is on the way. I wonder what else? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted April 17, 2007 Share #17 Posted April 17, 2007 There is something like this for Photoshop (not Lightroom). Panotools is the plug-in and it's open source, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, but IIRC it only works under Windose - and I'm a MAC man... :mad: Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted April 17, 2007 Share #18 Posted April 17, 2007 I haven't used it, but there seems to be an OS X version... Panorama Tools Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted April 17, 2007 Share #19 Posted April 17, 2007 By the way (more or less on topic), this thread over at the Lightroom User to User Forums is very interesting to anyone who thinks Lightroom's sharpening control is a shortcoming... Adobe Forums - LR sharpening in both Develop and Print? Looks like more robust sharpening is on the way. I wonder what else? A 'colour vignetting' tool - Please! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted April 17, 2007 Share #20 Posted April 17, 2007 I haven't used it, but there seems to be an OS X version... Panorama Tools The link doesn't work - or rather OSX 10.4 won't open the software when it is downloaded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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