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Hollywood Contrast

By Mike Wong | September 2, 2008

Here’s a new preset for you that combines two effects from Kevin Kubota with two effects from Jack Davis. I call it the Hollywood Contrast - I’m going to file this one under both Portrait and Landscape though it’s not really one or the other but I suppose you could try it out for yourself and make adjustments as needed.

I applied this set of effects to a photo I took of my daughter earlier this year in Hawaii. It starts out with a Contrast adjustment effect by Jack and then layers on the Kubota Mid Puller and the Kubota Hollywood Intensity effect adjusted to taste. It finishes off with a Jack Davis edge vignette.

Photo before PhotoTools

Photo before PhotoTools

Photo After PhotoTools

Photo After PhotoTools

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Neverland

By Mike Wong | August 30, 2008

Here’s another user submitted preset! This one comes to us from Nathan Keudell who happens to be working at onOne Software this summer before heading back to finish up college in the Fall. Here’s what Nathan had to say about what inspired him when creating this preset.

Imagine Peter Pan soaring through the air as the Lost Boys scurry below through the forest on the way home to hear another bed time story from Wendy. This preset was inspired by and embodies every element of Never Never Land.

Here are Nathan’s before and after photos.

Before PhotoTools

Before PhotoTools

After PhotoTools

After PhotoTools

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Jack Davis - Aged Photo

By Mike Wong | August 20, 2008

This isn’t a preset that Jack Davis created, but I couldn’t have created it without him. In the spirit of the recent  Senior Superstar preset, this Aged Photo preset uses only effects that were written for PhotoTools by Jack Davis. My goal here was to create an aged photo look and to achieve that, we needed to get some overlays and some noise in there. That helps give it some age, but we needed to add, or reduce, the color so to do that I added the Davis-Antique Color followed by the Davis-Edge Vignette Dark. I think the end result is effective.

Here’s the stack…

Photo Before PhotoTools

Photo Before PhotoTools

Photo After PhotoTools

Photo After PhotoTools

Photo copyright 2008 Mike Wong. All rights reserved.

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