Steely Blue for Lightroom (Lightroom Presets)

“Steely Blue” is a set of presets for Lightroom designed to bring out detail and enhance the colours in an image without creating a style that looks too much like a special effect. The look also enhances the dynamic range of the picture to which it is applied, by compressing the highlights and enhancing shadow detail. The main look of the presets actually came about by accident. I was experimenting with the colour tool in Lightroom as I was trying to emulate “Canon Colours” on my Nikon cameras, however I found that my experiments resulted in a very distinct look that I really liked and actually worked really well on pretty much all manufacturers cameras (Fujifilm, Sony, Panasonic, Leica etc). By adding some other tweaks, I came up with an original look that I’ve used extensively on my own images. It’s called “Steely Blue” because it has a tendency to bring out the blues in an image.

Presets Included:

Main Looks

• Steely Black
  
• Steely Black V
  
• Steely Black VV
  
• Steely Blue Bleached
  
• Steely Blue Bleached V
  
• Steely Blue Bleached VV
  
• Steely Blue Canon
  
• Steely Blue Canon V
  
• Steely Blue Canon VV
  
• Steely Blue Lite
  
• Steely Blue Lite V
  
• Steely Blue Lite VV
  
• Steely Blue Polarised
  
• Steely Blue Polarised V
  
• Steely Blue Polarised VV
  
• Steely Blue Sat
  
• Steely Blue Sat V
  
• Steely Blue Sat VV
  
• Steely Blue Std
  
• Steely Blue Std V
  
• Steely Blue Std VV
  
• Steely Blue Strong
  
• Steely Blue Strong V
  
• Steely Blue Strong VV
  

Tools

• SBT - Colour - Default Colours
  
• SBT - Colour - Polarised Colours
  
• SBT - Colour - Polarised Strong Colours
  
• SBT - Colour - Steely Blue Colours
  
• SBT - Grad - Sky Darken 1
  
• SBT - Grad - Sky Darken 2
  
• SBT - Grad - Sky Highlights Only
  
• SBT - Grain - Light - Fine
  
• SBT - Grain - Light - Large
  
• SBT - Grain - Light - Medium
  
• SBT - Grain - Light - Small
  
• SBT - Grain - Strong - Fine
  
• SBT - Grain - Strong - Large
  
• SBT - Light - Default
  
• SBT - Light - Pull
  
• SBT - Light - Push
  
• SBT - Vignette - Double Vignette
  
• SBT - Vignette - Light
  
• SBT - Vignette - Medium
  
• SBT - Vignette - Off
  
• SBT - Vignette - Radial Reset
  
• SBT - Vignette - Radial
  
• SBT - Vignette - Strong