March 21, 2013

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Aperture Freebies, Free Effects & Goodies, news, presets, ProPhotoShow

A Pack of Free Aperture Presets from Seim Effects ColorFlow

ColorFlow has arrived: A presets collection dedicated to beautiful color in Apple Aperture and the perfect follow up to LightFlow,  the workflow presets collection for Aperture – ColorFlow It puts the nuances & hues at your fingertips, backed by the power of Aperture. Inspired by film, cinema and color itself, ColorFlow includes endless possibilities in one powerful collection.

In form with Seim Effects standard practice, we’re posting a mini set from the collection. A selection of free presets from ColorFlow. Try them out and if you like what you see grab the complete collection. Note: If you use LR instead of Aperture check out Color Fantasies 2.

The complete ColorFlow features…

  • 5 categories of POWERFUL color tools.
  • Subtle to Bold. ColorFlow is balanced.
  • Customize – Mix and blend effects.
  • Free updates and effects refinements.
  • Organized for workflow and creativity.
  • Amazing Seim Real Service & support.
  • 60+ presets for Apple Aperture® 3+

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See more samples, plus watch the video with a demo and tips right here. Download the freebies below. Unzip and open in Aperture to install. Presets will appear with other presets in your adjustments panel.

 

DOWNLOAD ColorFlow sampler pack ZIP

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February 3, 2013

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free lightroom presets, lightroom, presets, special effects

15 FREE Premium Lightroom Presets from Seim Effects Color Fantasies 2

Recently we released Color Fantasies 2 here at Seim Effects – It’s a powerful collection of over 100 presets like you’ve never seen in Lightroom. It’s color alchemy at your fingertips, from Hollywood style color tones to film inspired simplicity. But we know that not everyone will be ready to jump in and buy a premium presets pack right off. That’s why we’re giving you free presets – Good ones too.

Below you can download 15 premium presets from Color Fantasies 2. No strings attached. Downloaded, install and start seeing what kind of color is possible within Lightroom. We hope you enjoy and when you see how powerful they are, you’ll check out the complete collection. If you have any questions or problems just get in touch – effects@seimstudios.com, or give us a phone call – 509 951 4860. We really are here to help.

Gavin Seim

Check out the complete collection of over 100 tools.

Download the Free Presets ZIP

Watch the video on installing presets.

Below a few before and after examples – See more and try out all the presets in the virtual demo on the Color Fantasies 2 product page.

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January 4, 2013

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lightroom, presets, special effects, Updates

Color Fantasies 2 Presets Toolkit for Lightroom Now Available – Press Release

 

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I’m really proud of this one. It’s actually been in the works for over a year. No rushing here. Color Fantasies 2 is exactly what I had hope it would be. Check out all the details here including the Virtual Demo. Below is the official press information and a link to the Press Kit with the full release, sample images and more… Gav

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Seim Effects Announces the Release of Color Fantasies 2

A system of over 100 presets for refining color images now available for use with Adobe Lightroom

Soap Lake, WA (January 3, 2013) – https://seimeffects.com/ announces today the release of powerful new color tools from Seim Effects and award-winning photographer Gavin Seim – Color Fantasies 2.

Color Fantasies 2 has been rebuilt from the ground up for stunning color nuances and control, better workflow and better mixing of effects. Every tool is either new or remastered and the result is a color toolkit that every photographer can utilize. Color Fantasies 2 allows photographers to leverage the subtleties of color in their own way, mixing, matching, and adjusting on their own terms.

“It’s like Color Alchemy for Lightroom – Built on years of development and refinement, Color Fantasies 2 is designed to help photographers create incredible color” said Gavin Seim, photographer, educator and owner of Seim Effects. “Color Fantasies 2 is all about taking the subtleties of color hues and tones and giving photographers of all genres the tools they need to quickly customize their vision and make their images sing.”

 

DOWNLOAD Press Kit and Full Press Release:

 

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January 12, 2012

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Gavin Seim, lightroom, news, ProPhotoShow, video

Advanced Video Editing in LR4 – Using Develop Module Adjustments

by Gavin Seim: With the new LR4 beta now out, I’ve of course been poking around inside. One great feature for us that capture video, is the ability to play and do light edits via Quick Develop and build video clips into our LR workflow.

But there’s something more that you may have noticed. Initially just basic settings are shown available for video, as we can see on the left. Exposure, contrast and the like. Others get greyed out. Also when you attempt to go into the Develop module for more advanced edits, it simply says “Video is not supported in Develop.”

And yet, it seems we can use some Develop settings via presets. I decided to just run a few from Seim Effects presets and see what happened. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the dialog below and that while not all, many of the develop settings are actually available using presets. Settings I was able to apply and export on my clip.

Needless to say I was pretty excited. I didn’t see this shown at the Adobe press conference a few weeks back and as far as I know Adobe has announced no official develop module support for video. But it stands to reason it may be coming.

The Technique for right now is to make Develop presets on a still frame and then apply those settings to video. We can tweak color channels, curves and the like and really gain a great deal of control over video clips in very short order. It’s not perfect: There’s still some settings missing that would be valuable, but we’re off to a good start.

I’m rather excited at the workflow potential. And that I’ll be able to offer presets that can be used for video editing. We’ll see what happens. I plan to experiment further and post some free video presets soon on my blog.. G

LR tells me that not all settings from the preset are being used and lists what's available before applying the effect. Still a pretty effective lineup of tools.
Copy Settings showed all available tools currently available on video. Not all, but all these, plus B&W adjustments (not shown in this dialogue) are some of the most important ones. With these we can do some serious effects.
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December 14, 2011

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f164, science, silver, technique

Dynamic & Tonal Range in the RAW File.

Right cut. Original RAW file desaturated in LR. Left cut, same file with the Dynamic Silver III preset from Silver Shadows 2 applied in LR.

Just a few quick observations today. One reason I stay in a RAW as long as possible is that quality and dynamic tonal control is at it’s highest on an original RAW file. Once we leave that environment, we can certainly still work with tonal values, but we throw away some of that precious information.

On the right is a sharpened and desaturated original file from Sunset’s Hidden Falls. On the left, the same file with nothing more than applying Dynamic Silver III from my new Silver Shadows 2 toolkit. This effect pulls out dynamic range without flattening the shadow and contrast too much. It could also be done manually of course.

Once I have the dynamic range under control, then I’ll move on to external edits as needed. I don’t hesitate to go into Photoshop (though I try to stay in 16bit mode) for detail work. I did plenty of that on the final version of this). But getting my basic tonal range managed before I leave the RAW file behind gives me better results and helps me maintain that quality as high as possible for my wall prints. It’s a better wokflow and a better image.

Gav

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