I've talked a lot about this with printing lately when you're printing on a warm tone paper it has a warmer toner induces just a slight a little bit of yellow tint to it whereas. If I use a cool tone paper they tend to move more towards the blue end of the spectrum and of course then you can do toning like Cpiotto being toning or selenium toning or there's a lot of varieties there.
That's kind of what I wanted to play with with these in Lightroom and so for instance still-life is kind of my base preset that I’ve come up with here but we can also do a tone shadow lift where it just lifts a little bit at other shadows and this is a really high contrast image. But it does some really interesting things with the highlights in the sky.
The next two high key and vintage mood. These were actually based off of some prints that I found that were definitely done with not quite exposed right negatives and so one of them was overblown and it was a way of rescuing highlights and this is one of the things that I love about black-and-white photography because like Ansel called it the zone system. But if you have highlights that just go straight to white you and tone those and bring them back a little bit. These are kind of fun to play with too. That's the high key preset as well as the vintage mood.
Finally, we have the VC or vintage color presets and these I'm very proud of I've been using these a lot in my own work. One thing I want to say before we get into this is that a lot of times when you get into presets that are emulating the look of an older color process or the look of film. One of the first things people usually do when they design that free Lightroom presets is they apply a tone curve that lifts the shadows and fades them out a little bit and reduces your highlights to give you the dynamic range of film what I wanted to do with something very different. I wanted to take the color palette that you find in vintage films or vintage print processes and bring that into the digital world because it's a look that I want to be able to apply.
But I don't necessarily want to lose my dynamic range or a lot of the things that have raised the bar in image quality over the years. I'll show you how to get those if you want but if you go over here on the left hand side I'll mouse over each one. This is Paris 1984 in New York 1972 - I know these are very elusive names here.
New York 1982 and finally Buenos Aires 1954 is the warm tone preset. If I select let's say Paris 1984 and I've got the color look already applied and one thing I can do is immediately go into my tone curve here and you can grab the shadows and bring them up and shove them off. If you want a more faded look you can really make this extreme. If you want you can go in that direction but I really didn't want that initially because I found myself with a lot of film presets that I was using having to go in and just immediately undo that every time because it's not necessarily.
I don't want the image to look that old but I want to use the color palettes that you found on those film types and bring them up into the modern age and that's what these are designed to do and of course you have the intensity slider as well and the ability to change this preset however you like. That is a look at my very first Lightroom preset package with Adobe Lightroom classic, Adobe Lightroom CC.
If you have a Creative Cloud account this will also sync these presets up with your mobile devices which is very cool because you can use them on the go and of course if you're using Photoshop they will work with inside Adobe Camera Raw.