It’s a commonly asked question, “How do I import presets?”.  Here’s the quick way I do it…

Feel free to giggle when it sounds like I’m spitting, lol….I just used the built in microphone on the laptop for this tutorial

and had to get really CLOSE to it for it to work

How To Import Presets Into Lightroom from Heather Green on Vimeo.

On the old blog I had a huge list of free Lightroom presets.  I decided to move them over here.

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I wanted to at least start a nice link list of all of the sites out there that offer free Lightroom Presets If you’re unsure how to install presets, take a look over here.

*** Get the FREE presets I created, including ‘Center Stage’ preset right HERE

* Wonderland Presets has some goodies for you HERE

* Kelsey Smith: Oh boy does Kelsey have a ton of preset goodies for you on her blog HERE make sure to look around and find them all. She’s also got a new flickr group HERE where you can post your photos you created using her presets.

*Simonetta has a set for you HERE to brighten your cloudy photos.

* Gavin Seim: He’s got some great sets of presets on his site HERE

* WOW Presets: I’m sure you already have these, but for those who don’t..you need them, grab them HERE

* Lightroom Killer Tips: Lots of good info to be found here, and he usually posts free presets once a week.

* Inside Lightroom: They’ve got a ton of presets on their site HERE Scroll to where you see ‘develop presets’ and a list of links for color presets, point curve presets, etc… click all of the links.

* L7 Photo: some more great presets to be found HERE

* Markus Dollinger.de : He’s got some presets for you HERE

* Snap Happy Inky Momma: She’s got some HERE for you.

* 640Pixels: Has some presets for you HERE.

* Leica M8: presets can be found HERE .

* Make An Image: has a D300 preset for you HERE .

* Nikon D200: find presets for it HERE.

* An Illustrated Journey: Has two free presets HERE .

* Vert: on Deviant Art has a set of snow presets HERE and a Wet Chrome preset HERE and New York State Of Mind HERE

* Scrapyard Kath: has an In The Pink preset for you HERE

* Huelight: offers presets for the Canon 40D and 5D HERE

* Skye: has some lightroom presets under the Jan. 11th blog post here

* X equals: has a free preset for you HERE also! And some lightroom info here

* I Brake For Bokeh has presets HERE and HERE

* Wonderland Presets are HERE

* Lightroom Library presets are HERE

**Lightroom resources are HERE also.

My husband and I are lucky enough to live about two hours away from Walt Disney World.  This past Sunday we did a day trip up there to meet up with my cousin and her finace’ that are down vacationing from MA.  We had a great time.  We also have become seasonal pass holders!  We were both born and raised in FL and as many times as we do go up to Disney, we haven’t ever gotten the yearly passes before.  Now we’ve got them, so Disney will be seeing a lot of us for the next year!

I knew it would be hot (August in Florida is HOT)…and I didn’t want to drag a bag with all my photo gear around with me the whole time so I just brought the little Canon Powershot SD1200is with me.  I wore some capri cargo pants with lots of pockets and was able to carry everything on me.  That also meant not having to go through the ‘bag-check’ line.  woot!

Another bonus was it was the day before most kids started school, so the park wasn’t crowded at all!  I can deal with heat, but heat and crowds of sweaty people bumping into you is not fun…so Sunday was perfect!

Here’s a few shots from Sunday, all were taken with the SD1200is and were processed in Lightroom 2:

For our next day trip up there we plan to do Animal Kingdom.  Which will require the backpack with the 50D and the 100-400L, but the good thing about Animal Kingdom is it’s fairly well shaded and it doesn’t take all day to see

The other day, a little bookmarklet was introduced.  All you had to do was add it to your browser’s toolbar and then when you were on the page of a flickr photo edited in Lightroom…you could press the bookmarklet and swipe the preset used on that photo.  Seemed innocent enough, I wasn’t worried.  So I tested it out.

I first tried it on my own flickr photos that I knew I had edited in Lightroom and it didn’t work.  So I went into a group on Flickr that was specifically for Lightroom images only and tried it there…it worked (on some photos).  So I swiped a few presets, tried them out and wasn’t overly impressed.  My own personal presets were much better than what I had grabbed on Flickr.  Then I realized why people couldn’t take my presets.  I edit in Lightroom and then open those images up in Photoshop and add my watermark there and save a copy.  Seems that if you re-save in photoshop then the Lightroom data is gone.

Cool.

So I wasn’t going to panic.  Hide your exif data or just re-save in photoshop and hide the Lightroom data only.  No biggie.

I sell Lightroom presets at Pink Ink Studios.  So I should be one of the people upset about the bookmarklet…but I’m not.

Besides, mine were much better than anything I found on flickr anyway, and those are the ones I’ll continue to use.

And now the bookmarklet is no longer available.  Someone threatened legal action from another country so the creator took it down.  If you want this little tool, I’m sure someone somewhere is going to come up with another one shortly.  It’s just too easy for someone to do.