Hi,
I need to replicate the look of a lightroom preset within PhotoLab 8. I’ve tried quite a bit, but failed so far.
Does any1 have an idea how a lightroom preset can be transferred or mimicked in PhotoLab? This preset doesn’t use fancy masks or anything.
Just copying over the slider values doesn’t work as they apps behave differently.
Original image
Lightroom preset result
Greetings,
Sigurd
So the top image is from PhotoLab and the bottom image (less saturated, darker shadows) is from Lightroom? The first thing I would do is try various Color Rendering settings to see if you can find a match. But if you don’t want to do that, just reduce the saturation in the HSL palette (starting with the “white” channel, which is all colors) and reduce blacks in the Selective Tone palette. (You might want to turn off Smart Lighting first.) That will get you closer. Further HSL adjustments will finish the job.
Start with DCP rendering, the same which was used in Lightroom. Many LR DCP profiles have strange hue shifts which are impossible to reproduce using HSL alone. Based on my experience with LR (or ACR, or Adobe DNG Converter) DCP profiles for Nikon D700 and partially D4, which can produce harsh and somewhat unexpected color transitions in certain cases.
