About Thomas Fitzgerald

Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography. 

Introducing MonoLux for Lightroom

Introducing MonoLux for Lightroom

I had stated when I launched Coffee Tones for Lightroom last month, that it was my intent to launch a new set of Lightroom presets every month this year. Well, it was getting close, but it looks like I made it with a few days to spare! I'm happy to announce today, that my newest set, MonoLux for Lightroom is now available.

MonoLux is my second set of black and white presets for Lightroom. The set was designed with the aim of creating a rich but natural black and white filmic feel. Like Coffee Tones, it's one of my newer, smaller packs. Within the pack are 10 variations with some extra special effects presets. This set also comes with separate Grad, Grain and Vignette presets, as well as set-up presets to help speed up you’re workflow.

MonoLux makes use of Lightroom's dehaze function to add depth to images, and so requires Lightroom CC 2015.1 or higher, or Lightroom 6.1 or higher. In fact, dehaze was integral to the look of the presets, and I think the way that I've used it creates an interesting black and white effect. Because the dehaze slider is only in the creative cloud version of Lightroom, I've included some presets which will let you adjust the de-haze amount without using the he slider.

MonoLux is available now for just €5 and requires Lightroom 6.1 or CC2015.1 or higher.

In some other store related news, and in the theme of black and white, I've put Monolith, my first set of black and white presets, on sale too, with the price reduced to €8 from €15. Many of my other presets are on sale too, with up to 40% off in some cases. Finally, I'm discontinuing my ACR presets, as there simply wasn't enough demand. For the few people who bought them, you can still get support and re-download them through your accounts, but they are no longer available for sale.

In the mean time, here are some more examples of MonoLux in action. For full details and more samples, stop by the store and check out the product pages for MonoLux.

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A Sneak Peek at MonoLux for Lightroom

A Sneak Peek at MonoLux for Lightroom