Lightroom Presets / Profiles

bmilcs

Senior Member
For all of you D7000 users, what settings do you use as your standard import settings? Camera Standard?

I would love to see how most of you develop your pictures. I had my settings tailored perfectly for my needs, updated my video card drivers, and now all of my pictures look nasty. I tried fiddling last night with the settings to get images back to the way they were initially, but was struggling to do so.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Nikon and Lightroom do not play well together by default - the colors are very ugly and dark edges, etc.
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
1. I always shoot RAW...
2. I never set any color/settings in the camera
3. If you find yourself making the same adjustments in LR... use one pic as the base, make the adjustments, and save the Preset... You can then create a preset Import dialogue that always uses the preset when Importing new images... In fact, you can create multiple presets (based on different cameras) and then select the appropriate Preset with the Import Dialogue...

LR and Nikon play very well together...
 

randyspann

Senior Member
When shooting raw, LR ignors 'in camera' presets. I love nikon's vivid in camera preset, so I make a LR preset in 'clarity', 'vibrance', and 'sharpening' to mimic that in camera preset. That is a good starting point for me.
 

Krs_2007

Senior Member
If you like the vivid preset, in LR just go down to camera calibration and under profile select camera vivid. It should be really close if not an exact match.
 

carguy

Senior Member
I'm not a fan of import presets for ALL images personally.
The only common factor I uses is keywords.

I do use camera/lens correction for all images I plan to take through the develop module.
 

bmilcs

Senior Member
1. I always shoot RAW...
2. I never set any color/settings in the camera
3. If you find yourself making the same adjustments in LR... use one pic as the base, make the adjustments, and save the Preset... You can then create a preset Import dialogue that always uses the preset when Importing new images... In fact, you can create multiple presets (based on different cameras) and then select the appropriate Preset with the Import Dialogue...

LR and Nikon play very well together...

This is exactly how I did it before my graphics card update. I was wondering what specifically people change, setting wise, in Lightroom as their default import adjustments.
 

PaulPosition

Senior Member
Brian,

As I said in your other thread, your old keepers haven't changed a bit, only screen rendering of them on your particular computer. I don't know if you've ever printed any of them, but if you did and they used to come out the way you envisioned them then tweaking them for your new setup may actually uglify them big time.

You've changed graphic card drivers, it's your screen and not the photos nor lightroom that appears different. Hence, it's screen calibration - not lightroom - you should troubleshoot first.

(Apologies if I somewhat got confused and answered the wrong poster)
 

Eduard

Super Mod
Staff member
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I would love to see how most of you develop your pictures. I had my settings tailored perfectly for my needs, updated my video card drivers, and now all of my pictures look nasty. I tried fiddling last night with the settings to get images back to the way they were initially, but was struggling to do so.

What method of color calibration are you using?

Nikon and Lightroom do not play well together by default - the colors are very ugly and dark edges, etc.

What are you basing this on? In my experience they work extremely well. How comfortable are you with LR?
 

aced19

Senior Member
I had my settings tailored perfectly for my needs, updated my video card drivers, and now all of my pictures look nasty. I tried fiddling last night with the settings to get images back to the way they were initially, but was struggling to do so.

I use a free program called Monitor Calibration Wizard by Hex 2 bit. Just do a google search to find it. Its not perfect like Spyder or other calibration systems. But you can get close and save your settings so every time you update your video card you can just run the saved settings from the program.
 
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bmilcs

Senior Member
Yikes. I just tried calibrating with Hex2Bit's Monitor calibration and it makes everything look horrible.

I followed it step by step too. :(

I'm using an older Acer p243w - which isn't even supported anymore by Acer - as my main monitor to edit photos. I think I need to upgrade it!

When hunting for a new monitor, what do you guys suggest?
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
Since calibration is your goal... I'd start with good calibration software/hardware...and work backwards from their list of compatible monitors...
 

aced19

Senior Member
Yikes. I just tried calibrating with Hex2Bit's Monitor calibration and it makes everything look horrible.

I'm using an older Samsung monitor and it worked great for me. Sorry it didn't work for you.
Like FredKingston said to get it perfect you have to use a software/hardware calibration.

Just curious in your display settings/advanced settings/monitor does it list your monitor Acer p243w ?
Also in your display settings/advanced settings/color management/color management is all your devices (monitor & printer) using the same ICC profile. You can choose a profile and make it a default.

After changing profile try the Hex2Bit's Monitor calibration and see if it works better.

I use the sRGB because I have my camera color space set to sRGB.
 
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