This Processing Tuesday is a follow-up of another article from a few weeks ago when I was talking about “the subtle art of the subtle vignette“, and how an almost imperceptible vignette may give another dimension to your photography. Now comes the time for a few free Adobe Lightroom presets!
Our volunteer of the day is a young man riding his bike in the streets of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The 6 presets are the ones I use on a daily basis, they are a great basis to start with, setting up the baseline of the effect I want to produce. Then, I only do a bit of tweaking if needed, but those are already pre-tweaked so it’s usually not even needed 
So, here are the 6 Lightroom presets:
- Vignette 5: a pretty standard but very subtle vignette, with a gain of -5. By far my most used setting, I apply it by default on all my black & white photos (yes, I love a bit of vignette on B&W photos, it’s one of my OCDs).
- Vignette 12: the same as the previous one with a gin of -12. My second more used one.
- Vignette 25: a much stronger vignette on this one (gain of -25), but compensated with the highlights saving slider raised a bit, making this vignetting effect less aggressive.
- Vignette 40: based on the previous preset, with a more aggressive gain setting (-40) but also a more aggressive highlights saving. I also like the fact it has a smoother transition by raising the feathering.
- Vignette max: a very strong vignetting effect, that can draw the viewer’s attention to the max on the subject. However this type of strong, aggressive vignette is not for every kind of photography.
- No vignette: not really a creative preset per se, much more a utility preset that will reset your vignette.
I hope you’ll like those vignette presets and find it as useful as I do. Click below to download your 6 free Adobe Lightroom presets… and have fun!
See you next Tuesday for more processing resources!
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