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It’s a lot easier to use these brushes than it is to go into Photoshop or a plugin. The custom Adjustment Brushes are a really nice touch that greatly add to the usability of the presets. But – bottom line – the presets work, and work well. Forty one-click presets is not a bad number, but I’d like to see more options and a bit more thought put into the stackable presets used to fine tune the results. These recipes are for you to follow as you learn to use the presets.

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The presets come with a PDF file that shows some sample before and after photos and which presets and brushes were used to do the editing. They are also a great way to learn as you can analyze the settings that each preset (and brush) uses to achieve the effect. They give you a good starting point for retouching portraits. If you are struggling to get the best from your portraits in Lightroom, then you will find the Strike A Pose Sleeklens presets very useful.

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Hopefully this help you see how using the custom brushes teaches you how to use Lightroom better! Strike A Pose Sleeklens presets – conclusion Here is a portrait along with five of the results obtained using one-click presets. You can also go over to the right-hand panels and push sliders around yourself to fine tune the effects. These are stackable presets – when you click on a new one it adds to the earlier effect rather than undo it.

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They let you do things like adjust exposure, add a vignette, improve skin tones and make colors pop. The rest of the presets (I counted 30) are for fine tuning the result of the one-click preset. Out of the 40 one-click presets in this collection I tend to find between four and ten of them work well with the portraits I tested. Most of the presets are color, a few are black and white. They either work or they don’t, depending on your style of portrait and personal taste. One-click presets tend to be a little hit or miss. Click on another one-click preset and it undoes the work of the first and applies a new effect. Each preset is completely independent of the others. I’m not quite sure what the difference is, but all are one-click presets that you can apply to your portraits.Ī one-click preset is one that you click just once to apply the effect. To start, you have 25 All in One presets and 15 Base presets. Some of the Strike A Pose presets are shown on the right. The feature that sets these presets apart from others is that they include a set of custom Adjustment Brushes designed to help you retouch portraits.

In this article I’m going to take a look at the Strike A Pose presets from Sleeklens.

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Take it too far and the model’s skin looks more like plastic (with no texture), go to an extreme and you end up with the highly stylized and over-processed look common in movie posters. This is the type of portrait where the photographer may be tempted to go into Photoshop (or a plugin) to remove wrinkles and smooth skin. Photographers who photograph models with the intention of making the kinds of images you might see in a fashion or editorial magazine are also doing this. Photographers who make portraits of members of the public for a living, and wedding photographers, naturally want to make their subjects look beautiful. The first is the type where you try to make somebody look as good as possible. Then there’s the question of just how much retouching is appropriate.īroadly speaking there are two types of portrait. Often this is a heavy-handed, commercial style that is of little relevance to the hobbyist photographer. Photoshop is for high-end retouching, of the sort you may see in a magazine, an advertising campaign or a movie poster. You save hard drive space (as you don’t need to convert your Raw files to 16 bit TIFFs to edit them in Photoshop), your workflow is simpler, you can copy and paste Develop Settings where required (saving time), you can create Develop Presets (also saving time) and even apply them to your portraits when you import your photos into Lightroom (saving even more time). There are many advantages of using Lightroom. The Sleeklens presets reviewed in this tutorial will help you with that. But I take a different approach and believe that most photographers can do all the portrait retouching they need to in Lightroom.

Some photographers consider Photoshop an essential tool for retouching portraits.

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