PresetsHeaven

Choose photo book by price or quality?

Pierre — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:58:01 +0000

For each long trip to another country, I make a photo book containing most of the photos I’ve taken. I’ve tried multiple services for this purpose. Some of them are better than the other. A while back ago I used Snapfish to process my photo books. They were the best alternative for me at that [...]

PH GreenYellow for a bright and soft effect

Pierre — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:14:55 +0000

Long time no see, but here I am again with a new preset for both Lightroom 2 and 3! I’ve been soo busy the last couple of months that I almost feel bad for you guys. I’ve been shooting lots of funny things including jewelry and some maternity photos. I bring my camera everywhere I go [...]

Set the white balance for all of your photos

Pierre — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:26:23 +0000

Manipulating with white balance (also called color balance, gray balance and neutral balance) can make some cool effects on your photos. Most of the time you want to change the temperature of your photos to make the photo look cold or warm. To do this you just simply drag the white balance slider to the [...]

10 great tutorials for better product photography

Pierre — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:49:53 +0000

Recently a client asked me to take photos of their products. A whole bunch of hand bags and jewelry needed to be shoot for their web shop. Taking photos of shiny silver bracelets and plastic bags etc. is quite different than model photography. As a professional photographer you probably already know what gear to [...]

Fashionable look with a little Lightroom preset

Pierre — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:09:34 +0000

Greetings! I’m sitting here with a cold and have way to many projects going on to actually be making presets for you guys I’m not sure how many times I’ve received mails from people all over asking me how to “get that look” in Lightroom. Most frequent request is the fashion look. You [...]

5 great presets from Dustin

Pierre — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:57:06 +0000

Hi everyone! I got a mail from Dustin with a link back to his website where I could find some of his presets (free to use). I’ve tried them out and here they are for the rest of you. If you’re looking for that “Fashion look” on your model shots some of them might actually work [...]

2 presets for weddings

Pierre — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:38:43 +0000

Marie-Edith sent me two presets she has made for wedding shots. The first one to make them look bright and creamy. Basically it’s increasing exposure/brightness, adding warmth, contrast, vibrance, slight vignette and portrait sharpening. The second one is a brighter version for underexposed photos. Presets in action SOOC/ORIGINAL Wedding Look Wedding Look Bright Uncompressed files (if you’re having problems with zip-file [...]

11 presets for night-shots by Sarah

Pierre — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:12:26 +0000

Sarah has once again made a great contribution to Presets Heaven. You probably already got some of her presets in your presets archive but these are 11 brand new ones. “-These presets will not impact exposure and brighness, so you’ll want to adjust those setting either before or after applying the presets to get the [...]

3 presets from Dominic

Pierre — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:58:52 +0000

Every now and then I receive presets from people out “there” who like to share their work with all the rest of us. I think it’s great so keep doing that! This time Dominic sent me three presets from his own collection. I’ve just tried them out and if you like to try them too… [...]

And the winner is…

Pierre — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:14:18 +0000

The contest is over for this time. The lucky winner of the book “The Accidental Millionaire” By Gary Fong, is Vince! Vince is a web designer by day, amateur photographer everywhere in between. When he’s not busy being a husband or father, you can find him modding gadgets in his basement, playing in Photoshop and Lightroom [...]