Prolost Bespoke Vintage Presets for Lightroom
Friday, August 15, 2014 at 10:30AM 
This is a fun one.
I’ve started playing with a faded, vintage look in Lightroom. With this kind of treatment, it’s often as useful to allow yourself to be surprised by new combinations of settings, rather than building up the look manually each time. So I built myself a system for generating an infinitely varying collection of faded vintage presets, and I have been having a blast with the results. It’s almost like Plastic Bullet for Lightroom.
It occurred to me that I could share these settings in a unique way, hence Prolost Bespoke Vintage Presets. That’s right, bespoke. I make each numbered set to order, according to your preferences, and with your monogram baked into the names.
Your presets are unique to you. No one else will have exactly your looks.
The Prolost Bespoke Vintage Presets are available in three quantities: 100, 200, and 300. Learn more here, or buy now at the Prolost Store.
Reader Comments (3)
Two questions (I guess both will be a "yes" but I've never used LR so no idea):
* These are applied after all other adjustments I make on the image, right? I mean, first I color correct, then I grade by applying one of these, and my original curves survive, is that correct?
* When I apply one of these, do I get to see exactly which values it applied on each setting?
I don't take many stills (that's the reason for not having LR), but if I can learn how you built each look, it's a reason to buy both LR and the presets.
The answer is yes to #2, and a nuanced yes to #1. There's no "after" in Lightroom, except inasmuch as the Camera Raw processing pipeline has an order of operations. You can adjust, say, exposure and white balance, either before or after applying the preset, and the end result will be the same. This is a good thing.
Sold. Even though I don't have LR yet, nor time to work on this idea just yet. But I've been wanting to learn in detail what's behind the Instagram look for some time now (people like it, so I should be able to create it), and I can't think of a better teacher :)