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FilmLUX 2 Now Available

FilmLUX 2 Now Available

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Preset

I’m delighted to announce that my latest set of Lightroom Presets, FilmLUX 2 is now available. FilmLUX 2 was designed to create a subtle “film” like look to digital images, without them looking overly processed. With many presets, and even when processing manually, it can be easy to take your images too far and have them look like they’ve been heavily treated. With FilmLUX 2 I wanted to create a set of looks, that could enhance an image without it looking like you’ve done an extensive amount of work to it. 

Two New Lightroom Preset Packs Coming Soon

Two New Lightroom Preset Packs Coming Soon

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

I’ve been working on a few new Lightroom presets, and I have two new packs which are due for release pretty soon, hopefully this week. The two are “FilmLUX 2” and “Industrial Iron”. The first is a sequel to my Film Lux set of presets, and the second is the latest in my “metals” series. I have a sneak peek of these new sets, including some information about them below. 

See My Lightroom Presets in Action: Cherry Blossoms and Film LUX

See My Lightroom Presets in Action: Cherry Blossoms and Film LUX

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Fuji X-Series

As spring is here once again, the Cherry Blossoms are blooming, and I just love the beauty of these fleeting flowers. On a beautiful sunny day I was in a local park here in Dublin and I was taking some images of the beautiful cherry trees there. I shot the photos using a Fuji X-Pro 2 and for post processing, I wanted to go with a nice film look, and so, after trying out a few different presets, I eventually settled on using my own FilmLUX set as my starting point.

Sony Lightroom Bug and a Possible Work Around. Sort of.

Sony Lightroom Bug and a Possible Work Around. Sort of.

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Sony

The other day I posted a possible work around for an annoying Lightroom bug that had been frustrating me. When working with Sony ARW files, when you move from one image to another in the develop module, it can sometimes take seconds (sometimes 10 or more) before moving the sliders have any effect. The not really a solution, solution, that I offered was to wait till the Auto button enabled before trying to edit. Well, after a bit more research, I think I’ve found the source of this issue.

Quick Tip: How To Adjust Brightness in Lightroom, Without using Exposure

Quick Tip: How To Adjust Brightness in Lightroom, Without using Exposure

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

A long time ago, in a version of Lightroom far far away…well, ok, a previous version…there were separate controls for brightness and exposure. Since then Adobe, apparently feeling that this was too confusing for the average user, decided to roll it into a single “exposure” control. However, brightness controls still exist in other applications, and while the exposure control is probably fine 90% of the time, there are still times when you may need to use a basic “brightness” adjustment in Lightroom. 

 

Processing Lots of HDR exposures at once in Lightroom

Processing Lots of HDR exposures at once in Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

Recently I was out taking some photos in the city centre of Dublin, and I ended up shooting a lot of bracketed exposures. It was a moody, cloudy day, and while the low clouds would probably come out by pushing the Raw files with just one exposure, it as quite dramatic, and I wanted to maintain as much detail as possible. I wasn’t so much intending to create lots of HDR files, but I was more just trying to give myself options afterwards.

New Black and White Lightroom Preset Bundle Available

New Black and White Lightroom Preset Bundle Available

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Sales

I currently have three sets of black and white presets available for Lightroom and based on popular request, I’m now making them available as a single bundle. The three sets of presets are: Monolith, MonoLux and T-Pan. Each has a different style and different approach to creating the black and white look, and together I think they make a good range of styles for creating black and white images in Lightroom.

Video: Removing People from a Photo in Photoshop

Video: Removing People from a Photo in Photoshop

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Photoshop

I wanted to share a quick video tip with you about removing people from a shot in Photoshop. This isn’t a video about how to use the clone tool or anything like that. In fact I only use the clone tool for a short part of it. I actually use two images to remove the people, and combine them using one of Photoshop’s lesser known but really useful tools. First, let me back up a bit and explain the circumstances surrounding the shot.

Using Lightroom and Aurora HDR to create a HDR Image

Using Lightroom and Aurora HDR to create a HDR Image

Thomas Fitzgerald
Video, Lightroom, Learning

I was recently working on some bracketed exposures that I shot while on a walk by the coast north of Dublin. It was a beautiful and moody day, but the light was pretty strong, and I was shooting with my D700, which hasn’t the greatest dynamic range. With that in mind, I shot multiple exposures with the aim of combining them later so as not to loose any detail in the highlights and shadows. I originally tried combining the exposures in Lightroom, but I wasn’t happy with the results, so instead I decided to use Aurora HDR.

T-Pan vs Real Film: Round 2

T-Pan vs Real Film: Round 2

Thomas Fitzgerald
Film, Lightroom

I wrote a post yesterday where I compared my new T-Pan for Lightroom Presets , applied to some Fuji X-Pro 2 images, against some real film. It wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously, and wasn’t meant as a scientific comparison. I wanted to show, that I could mix images from both together in a single story and they would work together well. However, someone suggested that It wasn’t a fair comparison, because the film I was using Ilford XP2 wasn’t “real” black and white film.

Fuji X-Pro 2 + T-Pan for Lightroom vs Real Film

Fuji X-Pro 2 + T-Pan for Lightroom vs Real Film

Thomas Fitzgerald
Film, Fuji X-Series, Lightroom

I’m really proud of how well my T-Pan set of Lightroom presets turned out. I’m not just saying that as a shameless plug. I set about creating something that would work well to emulate black and white film, and I think the results work really well. I’m sure it’s not perfect. It’s not a full simulation as such, but rather an artistic interpretation, but I think it comes close. To see just how close I decided to do a little experiment

Introducing T-Pan for Lightroom

Introducing T-Pan for Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

I’m delighted to announce that my first set of new Lightroom Presets for 2017 is now available. It’s called T-Pan and it’s a new set of Black and White Presets. I came up with the style when working on trying to copy the look of some film that a friend had asked me to scan, and I’m pretty happy with the results. T-PAN is an attempt to create a realistic set of monochrome film presets, and it is aiming to re-create the experience of shooting with a professional grade black and white film.

Enhancing Images with Luminar

Enhancing Images with Luminar

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Learning, Photoshop, Post Processing

I’ve talked about MacPhun’s Luminar here before. Specifically I discussed it in the context of the software being a new RAW converter, and I talked about the possibilities it offers. However, there’s another way to use the application, which also works really well, and that’s as a plug-in. You can use it as a plug-in for either Photoshop or Lightroom, and it offers a lot of functionality. Recently I was using it on an actual project, and so I thought that I’d discuss what I did and how I used the software.

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