Free Presets for Adobe Lightroom

Expand Your Creative Possibilites
with Lightroom Presets

Available for free download here: http://www.ononesoftware.com

onOne makes a variety of Photoshop plug-ins including their most popular available for a free 30 day trial.

The Adobe Camera Raw presets are completely free and do not have the 30 day restriction!

Get Over 140 FREE Lightroom Presets Designed by Photoshop Guru Jack Davis

• Quickly correct color and tone
• Easily add creative effects
• Save time by streamlining your workflow

Extensive Range of Versatile Presets for Lightroom

Designed to provide a streamlined workflow and make you more creative, these presets for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom were designed by Photoshop Guru Jack Davis to help you get the most out of Lightroom. PhotoPresets for Lightroom now includes two dynamite collections of development presets. The first collection, PhotoPresets with One-Click WOW! includes 85 presets for quick and easy image optimization such as color and tonal correction. The second collection, PhotoPresets WOW Effects (released in Feb '09), includes 55 additional presets for adding special effects to your images, taking advantage of the new features in Lightroom 2. The best part is the price - you can download all of these presets for free!
Download PhotoPresets for Lightroom Now.

The original photo, by Jack Davis, is on the far left.

The variations on the right represent examples of

what you can do when applying a single or combination of presets to the photo.

See PhotoPresets for Lightroom In Action

Curious how to get started? Photoshop guru Jack Davis has put together a video showing you how to get the most out of PhotoPresets with One-Click WOW! Watch the full video or select one of the six chapters.

Full Movie (26:30, 40 MB)
Chapter 1 - Introduction (2:18, 3 MB)
Chapter 2 - Getting started using white balance, tone & vibrance presets (5:40, 8 MB)
Chapter 3 - Monochrome: Using the Black & White conversion, tints & vignette presets (4:50, 7 MB)
Chapter 4 - Color Effects: Using HSL presets and manual adjustments (4:50, 7 MB)
Chapter 5 - See it in Action: Full workflow with several examples (7:07, 11 MB)
Chapter 6 - Workflow tips for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (2:09, 4 MB)

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Free Adobe Camera Raw Presets

onOne Software
giving away free
Over 140 Adobe Camera RAW Presets

Available for free download here: http://www.ononesoftware.com

onOne makes a variety of Photoshop plug-ins including their most popular available for a free 30 day trial.

The Adobe Camera Raw presets are completely free and do not have the 30 day restriction!

PhotoPresets let you quickly and easily adjust all of the development parameters in Adobe Camera Raw. Its your one-click solution for correct white balance, tone, vibrance, hue and sharpening of your photo. You can selectively apply tools to lighten and darken the sky or smooth skin, and you can quickly apply unique creative effects to your images. PhotoPresets even allows you to preview each effect before you apply it and stack several presets together to get the look you desire. Then you can save an entire stack of settings as your own custom preset for future use and even use them for batch processing. Getting great results with your Raw images in ACR couldn't be easier. The variations on the right represent examples of what you can do when applying a single or combination of presets to the photo.

Extensive Range of Versatile Presets for Adobe Camera Raw

Designed to provide a streamlined workflow and make you more creative, these presets for Adobe® Camera Raw (ACR) were designed by Photoshop Guru Jack Davis to help you get the most out of your Raw images in Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 or CS4. PhotoPresets for ACR now includes two dynamite collections of development presets. The first collection, PhotoPresets with One-Click WOW! includes 85 presets for quick and easy image optimization such as color and tonal correction. The second collection, PhotoPresets WOW Effects (released in Feb '09), includes 55 additional presets for adding special effects to your images. The best part is the price - you can download all of these presets for free!
Download PhotoPresets for ACR Now.

onOne makes a variety of Photoshop plug-ins including their most popular available for a free 30 day trial. The Adobe Camera Raw presets are completely free and do not have the 30 day restriction.

Here is a sample of what onOne has available:

• Genuine Fractals Plugin,
• Photoshop Plugins,
• PhotoTools,
• Mask Pro,
• PhotoFrame,
• PhotoTune,
• FocalPoint,
• Lightroom Presets,
• Photoshop Elements Plugins

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Put the power of the Obama campaign posters towards your own use...

Obamicon.ME and others
giving the power of the poster
to the people!

Like those really cool Obama campaign posters made by Shepard Fairey? Want to make one of your own?


You are in luck!

No Photoshop skills are required to make your very own Obama/Fairey style posters over at Obamicon.me. The site hosted by Paste Magazine allows you to upload any image (or use a web/phone cam) smaller than 4mb, and they will instantly turn it into Obama inspired pop art with the click of your mouse. How cool is that! Obamicon.me allows you to download your creations and post them in a gallery with everyone elses. Of course some photoshop skills will still come in handy as they recomend .png or .gif files with transparent backgrounds for the best effect.

Additionally there are a couple of other options available on the net.

Obamafy is a photo booth plug-in from Dubi Kaufmann and is available for download here: http://www.dubster.com/obamafy/ It is only available for Mac's OS X 10.5 Leopard, so PC users don't even think about it....

VECTORTUTS has a nice tutorial by Zach Wentz
Creating an inspirational political poster.
"This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey's famous political poster series for the Obama campaign in the US. We'll be showing you how to create this style of design. We'll start with basic image editing techniques in Photoshop to get our guide layers setup, and then we'll jump into Illustrator. You don't need any fancy equipment to do this. I used an older mouse that still has the rubber ball."

Finally University of Washington's in the studio blog gives some alternate advice based on the VECTORTUTS tutorial but with a little more thought about the art rather than just trying to automate the process. In How to emulate the iconic Obama poster, Part II Author DavidW notes "One detail that I noticed about Fairey’s poster was his use of both hard lines and curves. That is, Obama’s features aren’t exclusively represented with rounded shapes, nor exclusively sharp-edged shapes. There’s a mix. I think that mix really speaks both to Fairey’s artistic eye and ability to communicate such emotion with relatively little (just colors and shapes)." To this end he goes on to explain his process to achieving a successful Fairey/Obama style poster.

Flickr has one of the best collections of Obamicon and other Obama/Fairey inspired posters, here are a few...

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Free Subscription to After Capture Magazine

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Get AfterCapture magazine right in your mailbox. Subscriptions are complimentary. Simply complete the online subscription form to apply.

AfterCapture Magazine is the premiere bi-monthly digital photo magazine for photographic post-production work. Visit this month's articles for a sample of what you will see in print.

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Using RSS technology, you can subscribe to the ACMetaforum, ACNews and Events with your favorite news reader or personalized homepage.

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Free Memory

Free Memory

Tips & Tricks
for
Adobe Photoshop


The Purge command lets you free memory used by the Undo command, the History palette, or the clipboard.

Choose Edit > Purge, and choose the item type or buffer you want to clear. If it is already empty, the item type or buffer is dimmed.

Note: The Purge command permanently clears from memory the operation stored by the command or buffer; Purge cannot be undone. For example, choosing Edit > Purge > Histories deletes all history states from the History palette. Use the Purge command when the amount of information in memory is so large that Photoshop performance is noticeably affected.

For more great Photoshop tips and tricks

Visit evangelist Julieanne Kost’s website for valuable tips and tricks on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

Don't Miss-

The Top 10 tips and Tricks in Photoshop (PDF)

Ok, there are really 12 techniques in this handout that I feel just don't get enough attention!

The Top 10 Photoshop Features (PDF)

This tutorial covers what I think are the top 10 features in Photoshop that people don't use, but should...

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Free Adobe Photoshop CS3 (version 9)

30 day Free Trial
Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is the premier digital imaging tool for Photography and you can use it for free for 30 days. After 30 days it will stop working unless you purchase an access code. Adobe Co makes much of their great software available for 30 day trial. So clear your schedule for the next 30 days because this is a great chance to try out what is truly the best photo editor on the planet.

To get the free 30 day trial just visit Photoshop CS3 and select downloads from the menu at the top of the screen and "Trial" will be one of the options.

Also for a limited time Adobe is offering a great deal if you decide to purchase both Photoshop and Lightroom - Adobe's new raw processing program.Save up to $150 when you buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software together with Photoshop CS3


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February Free courses from Sony

Your Personal Tutor, Offering Free Online Learning New courses enrolling now!

Dear Free Photography Stuff Blog readers, Enrollment for February Courses has begun, so sign up now to ensure a spot in one of this month's featured topics. My 101 - visit today and explore!

			Introduction to Portrait Photography Take portrait photographs like the pros do using simple and intermediate techniques with a digital camera.
			Set Up Your HDTV to Get the Best Performance Learn how small adjustments to your HDTV's picture and sound settings can help you enjoy your television's capabilities to their fullest.

	Digital Imaging 101 Capture Special Family Moments in Photos Creating Digital Photography Art Photo Montages 101: Bring Photos to Life in a Video Montage Filmmaking 103: Edit Your Video, Share It Online Edit Great Home Videos Digital Photography Made Simple
	Home Entertainment 101 Fusing Home Theater and Interior Design Record Your Favorite TV Programs Using a DVR Get the Cinema Experience at Home with High Definition Making All of Your HD Products Work Together Rock the House: Choosing a Home Theater Receiver Converting Video Tapes to DVD
	See you in class! My 101 Staff

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Link to: Original Sony My 101 post

Perfect Portraits Tutorial

Super Airbrush Post-Processing Tutorial

Dan Chips has put together a fine tutorial on airbrushing portraits in Photoshop. It is easy to follow and reproduce. View it here: Super Airbrush PP Tutorial!

"Hello everyone! I thought I would put this tutorial together, as it seems every time I post an image that I have processed in this way, everyone wants to know how I did it. Rather than explain every time, I thought I would give something back to the community and submit my own tutorial. I hope some of you out there find it useful." -Dan Chips.

One of the most popular tutorials to come out of the Canon oriented POTN message board. You can no longer find the original posting there, along with 30+ pages of ongoing discussion about refinements and modifications to the original technique Dan offered. Well worth the read, hopefully it will return soon.
Mizuno's Super Airbrush PP Tutorial!

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Free Photography Workshops from Sony

Sony's

MY 101
Free Workshops and Classes

Sony Co offers a number of free online training and workshops. Each course is designed to last one month and focuses on a particular aspect of digital photography and imaging. The classes are hosted online by an experienced professional instructor and consist of a lesson and assignment and a follow up quiz. The class also has a dedicated message board where the instructor and students can share and ask questions.

Courses offered change monthly and currently include:

• Beginning Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Record Your Life with Digital Scrapbooking
• Digital Photography Made Simple
• Intermediate Photoshop® CS2

Sony is a major player in the Photography world. It makes camera phones, Point & Shoot Digitals, and with the recent acquisition of Konica and Minolta camera companies, now a line of consumer and semi-pro DSLR's.

Of course Sony also makes all manner of Electronic products. The global size and diversity of Sony means it can be tricky to sort through the vast and varied Sony Co websites to locate the photography related resources. I will do my best to help locate them and post them here.

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PhotoShop Tube... Free stuff on YouTube!

Photoshop on YouTube, Fun and Educational too!

YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.

Although YouTube is most often associated with entertainment it has a vast collection of educational content as well. Photoshop is well represented with a wide variety of educational and entertaining videos available.

You can visit the YouTube homepage to search by key-word, or view some favorites I have listed below.

Don't miss these gems...

Dove Soap's "Evolution Makeup & Photoshop"
Watch a team of studio photographers and photoshop artists transform an ordinary girl into a supermodel!

Lose weight in Photoshop (makeover)

Makeover of a big lady. Just to show the power of Photoshop.

Extreme (Photoshop) Makeover

A photographer and designer shows the photo retouching process in detail.

HDR. Before and after.

Some of my works, before and after. Shows the effect after Tone Mapping.

Merge to HDR in Photoshop CS3 High Dynamic Range

HDR in Adobe photoshop

Curves :: Photoshop Tutorial Learn the Basics of Curves!

Learn the basics of curves in no time!


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Free Nik Efex Pro filters

As a promotion for their wonderful Nik Efex filter Software, Nik Software inc. often makes a couple of great filters available for free.

The Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 filters offer a wide variety of professional photographic enhancements that can be applied within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, or any software application that supports the Adobe Photoshop Plug-In format.

Currently available for free are:
Three Free Filters
• Skylight Filter
• Graduated Orange
• Monday Morning Violet

And also:

Four Free Filters
• Brilliance/Warmth
• Bi-Color Cool/Warm
• Graduated Orange
• Contrast Only

The graduated orange makes the list twice so they are only offering 6 total free filters.

Brilliance and Warmth

Before	After

Contrast Only

Before	After

Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 is offered in three editions: Standard, Select, and Complete. The Standard Edition contains 19 popular filters. The Select Edition includes all 19 filters in the Standard Edition and adds 26 additional filters, for a total of 45 filters. The Complete Edition contains all 75 filters in the Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 collection.

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Canon's DPP Updated to 3.0.2

Canon's

Digital Photo Professional (DPP)

Free Software to unleash
the RAW power of the EOS Digital SLR

Canon Inc. has just released the latest update to their free RAW processing and workflow software DPP. Version 3.0.2 replaces 3.0.1.5 and includes a major update for Windows Vista and a couple of minor fixes for Mac and non-Vista users.

I generally shoot in RAW format, and I rely heavily on the DPP program. With the release of Version 3 Canon has given its customers a fantastic tool for free. I can often achieve fantastic results processing my RAW images in DPP and never have to adjust them in PhotoShop.

The ability to shoot RAW images is a feature of higher end cameras and allows for you to have all the raw sensor data from the digital camera without the camera making any automated image enhancements like it would to make a .Jpg image.

This RAW file really is raw data, think of it like a film negative, and must be processed in conversion software and made into a .Jpg or .tiff file.

This conversion software allows me to make decisions on brightness, tone, contrast, color temperature, color saturation, and grain sharpness. By allowing me to make these decisions I can fine tune my pictures, often far better than the logic built into the camera.

Canon in addition to providing the RAW software DPP provides a detailed 106 page user manual, and goes one better providing intensive online tutorials that are easy to understand with video examples by world class photographers and Canon reps.

Unfortunately Canon's Digital Photo Professional will only work with RAW files generated by its EOS line of Digital SLR's. For those with RAW files generated by Canon p&s cameras like the G6 or other manufactures RAW files they will sadly not work with DPP.

Canon's DPP software can be downloaded here:
Digital Photo Professional 3.0.2

The DPP manual (106 pages) is here:
support page

Visit the Online learning center for DPP tutorials and video lessons:
DPP Canon's Digital Photo Professional

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Photoshop Must Haves...

Photoshop CS2 Quick Reference Guides

Here are a couple of FREE PDF guides you should have handy when you Photoshop

Adobe's Photoshop is a very advanced program. Very advanced. Even with formal schooling most of us are just scratching the surface. luckily Adobe and the internet are replete with tutorials, guides and reference materials.

Here are two references you should have handy any time you venture into the realm of Photoshop:

Photoshop Power Shortcuts is concise 20 page guide with reference to all the tools! With tips and shortcuts for using them and other Photoshop features. You can thank Daniel Brown, Julieanne Kost, & Tim Cole from the website adobeevangelists.com for putting this together for us. You can also find more great reference material on their Tips & Tricks page.

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts is a simple 4 page matrix of all the various keyboard shortcuts available in Photoshop CS2. A valuable reference that will save untold amounts of time. The PDF file was created by the helpfull folks over at creativetechs.com. Visit their Quick Tips page for tons of Photoshop guides, ideas, and advice.

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