Color Fantasies is my latest collection of Lightroom Presets that focuses entirely on color. It doesn’t mess around about it either. CF gets under the hood in Lightroom and transforms images into beautiful color tones that can be applied instantly with a click. Wow I sound like my own PR guy (oh wait, I am).

In tradition with my other collections, here’s a FREE sampler pack that includes 5 presets from Color Fantasies. There’s more image samples and a video on the product page so feel free to take a peek. The complete set come with more than 45 presets, plus an action. So when you like what you see, go check out the complete collection

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Included sampler effects are…

• Dynamica.
• 1975.
• Lemon Drops.
• Criss Cross.
• Morning Coffee.

by Gavin Seim: I’ve spent much of this Christmas Eve doing the final prep, but it’s ready. The Seim Effects/Pro Photo Show annual Christmas gift pack. Just my way of saying thanks for all your support and feedback over the past year. Theres good things in store for 2010 so stay tuned.

This years pack has four new presets based on tones inspired by film. This is something I’ve been working on lately and there’s more to come in the future. Next are four textures to add character to your photos. There’s also an action included to make overlaying and placing any texture really easy.

You can get more specific details with the info that’s included in the download and see a couple samples below. Mouse over the images to see the presets before and after. Also don’t forget the contest we’re hosting for the free  Lensbaby Composer. Go here for entry info. Also stop by Pro Photo Show for the latest podcasts and join the community. There’s good things ins tore for 2010.

Download and enjoy. Here’s to a great 2010 and wishing you a Merry Christmas and New Year. I’m off to spend mine with the family. Hope you are too… Gavin Seim

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Around New Years I make a pack of goodies to send out to fans and customers of Seim Effects throughout the year. I sent these in the SE newsletter, but have not posted it officially.

Inside you’ll find a few cool Photoshop actions and a couple great presets for Lightroom. Bold and clear is the order of this year and included in the actions you’ll find Visual Razor X, the 4th generation of my vivid sharp action.

If you need help installing presets see here, and to learn how to manage actions see here. To stay more up to date on the latest freebies you can join the Seim Effects club on Facebook. Enjoy… Gavin

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by Gavin Seim: Most of us who use Lightroom have heard about print templates. What most don’t know is the super cool trick to use them for cool page layouts for albums and press printed books. Matt recently posted a great video on LR Killer Tips about tweaking template settings to allow multiple images on one layout.

I’ve made a sampler of print presets that allows you to make some quick square layouts like the one’s below. Great for press printed books and albums. Load em up, select the layout, then select the photo’s you want used. There’s seven in this set, and all have a 1/4″ edge free space to allow trim room for books. Best of all their FREE. If people enjoy them I may make a BIG set.

I know of no way to have LR add a black background itself, so I used this workaround. I’ve included a black file in the download, and there’s details in the help file. UPDATE: 6/2009, V1.1 Minor tweaks were made and a new square preset was added.

Download Lightroom Print Presets 1.1

Using The Presets:
Unzip the and install. If you don’t know how to install presets check this article out. It centers around Develop presets but the install method is basically the same. If you get errors trying to export try the power user method outlines in the same article.

In the print module select the preset you want (once installed) Then select multiple images from the filmstrip. This will populate the layout. If an image goes into a cell you don’t want it to, you can manually drag an image onto the layout. This tends to place an extra frame on the layout which can just be deleted.

If the crop of the cell is not the way you want, just hold the CMD key (CNTRL on PC) and drag the image inside the cell to the crop you like.

Exporting & Printing:
Once you have the desired look you can print it out directly. More often however you’ll probably want to export them to send to a lab. While export does not actually work from the print module, you can quickly achieve the same result.

To export the layout just use “Print To JPEG” from the “Print Job” menu in the right side (see image). Click the “Print To File” button and the file will save out as high res JPEG file ready to be used. Repeat for each layout and Presto you have your ready to upload or save for later.

UPDATE: Regarding the “Failed to convert native image to blob” error. This seems to be a problem with Lightroom as it sometimes with other print presets than my own. I suggest you install them manually by copying them directly into the print presets folder. If you don’t know how to do that, this article will explain how.

My free sampler of Power Workflow2 Lightroom Presets is  here. This has a small assortment of what comes with the complete set, but there’s some great presets here.

A key with presets is to build a good workflow. I spend a lot of time with that, and you’ll see some of it here. Start with a good auto preset for batches. This free set includes a preset from my new “Super” series auto settings. Apply it to a whole batch to get rockin, then move on and try some other effects.

There’s also a coupon inside that will save you a few bucks if you decide to get the whole set. If you already have PW2 you already have these, but stay tune because Christmas is near and I have some goodies in store

Download FREE PW2.5 Lightroom Presets Sampler:

Check Out My Video & The Complete Set:

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Did you know that in Lightroom2 You can use a brush to make precise corrections, and even have brush presets ready to go to make those corrections easy.

Well I knew about LR  brushes, but I had not given enough attention to them until Matt Kloskowski posted up some darken brushes, and got my mind churning on this great workflow asset.

Here’s a collection of brush presets I made for… Burn, Dodge, Color Boost, Color Drain, Skin Soft, and Detail Boost.

Remember that these don’t work the same as my Develop presets. These are for “Brush” settings. If you need to learn how to install them take a look at my Installing Lightroom Brush Presets article.

Once you get them installed you can just select the brush effect that you want, from the drop-down. Brush size and intensity are still fully controllable with the sliders, but these preset will get you going fast.

Gavin Seim

UPDATED 02/2010: Now version 1.6 preset samples.

Hey all. Here are five free Lightroom raw presets from my Monochromatix B&W presets collection. I always like to give some presets away from each collection. You should find these a nice addition to your preset library. Heres what’s inside!

• Bold n Snappy I
• Infrared II
• Infrared Warm II
• Old Red II
• UBW (Ultimate B&W) 1

Download and enjoy… Gav

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