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Lightroom Presets: Fake It Til You Make It

I was playing around the other day with a few self-portraits and came up with an Adobe Lightroom preset that I really liked. I called it “Fake It Til You Make It.” It seems to work well on photos that are slightly under-exposed to add lots of punch and light. Today, I made a black-and-white version as well.

The presets: Fake It.zip

Here’s what they look like applied to this image:

Original:

Original

With “Fake It Til You Make It”:

Fake It Version

With “Fake It Til You Make It BW”:

Fake It BW Version

A note on the use: adjusting “Exposure” seems to be the best way to get the highlights and shadows where you want them - adjusting “Brightness” seems to blow out the highlights every time.

Enjoy!

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4 Responses to “ Lightroom Presets: Fake It Til You Make It ”

  1. AndrewG NY Says:
    May 19th, 20088:03 am at

    I’m going to have to try this–your PP definitely has a ‘look’. I have personally underutilized the presets, probably to my detriment.

  2. AndrewG NY Says:
    May 29th, 200810:58 am at

    I gave ‘Fake It’ a try though tweaked it somewhat as my image wasn’t nearly as underexposed so as supplied your preset blew out my highlights badly…but at least it has a milder form of Keitha-magic:

  3. AndrewG NY Says:
    May 29th, 200811:00 am at

    Oops, I guess I can’t include images in the comments. Here’s the link.

  4. Lenn Grayes Says:
    August 9th, 20088:51 am at

    I love this! Thanks so much! Here are my results with your preset: http://flickr.com/photos/gracefuleye/sets/72157606632026079/