Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Five:
Now, of course you can use any built-in
preset as a starting place to build your
own preset, but let's just start from scratch
here. Click the Reset button at the bottom
of the right side Panels area (shown circled
here in red) to reset our photo to how it
looked when we started. Now we'll create
our own look from scratch: Increase the
Exposure amount to +1.00, set the Recovery
amount to 100, the Fill Light to 40, Blacks to
5, the Brightness to +50, and then lower the
Contrast to -12. Now, increase the Vibrance
amount to +30, and then lower the Satura-
tion to -60, which gives us the look you
see here. We're not finished yet ('cause this
looks kinda lame).
Step Six:
Now go the Tone Curve panel (in the right
side Panels area), choose
Strong Contrast
from the Point Curve pop-up menu, then
drag the Highlights slider to +75, and the
Shadows slider to -85 to add some mega
contrast. Lastly, go to the Lens Corrections
panel, click on Manual at the top, drag the
Lens Vignetting Amount slider to -100,
and set the Midpoint to 5 to complete the
effect (that looks better. Kind of a contrasty,
washed-out, yet snappy color effect). Okay,
now that we've got our look, let's save it as
a preset. Go back to the Presets panel and
click on the + (plus sign) button on the right
side of the Presets panel header to bring up
the New Develop Preset dialog (shown here).
Give your new preset a name (I named mine
“Desaturate with Contrast Snap”), click the
Check None button at the bottom of the
dialog (to turn off the all the checkboxes),
then turn on the checkboxes beside all the
settings you edited to create this preset
(as seen here). Now, click the Create button
to save all the edits you just made as your
own custom preset.
Note:
To delete a User Preset, just click on
the preset, then click on the - [minus sign]
button, which will appear to the left of the
+ button on the right side of the Presets
panel header.
