Quick tip: sale over at X-Equals Blog

Those of you that have followed this blog for some time, know that I like the X-Equals presets a lot. They’re very cleverly designed and can really spice up your pictures. Some of the presets are free, others, like the Cold Storage Series Vol. 1 & 2 (a series of Film Simulating Lightroom presets) aren’t. Yet, at an original price of 9,99 USD per Volume they weren’t expensive to begin with.

And now, Brandon of X-Equals has made a good deal even better: now that you’re probably almost broke after buying X-Mas gifts for your loved ones, there’s a 75% sale going on over at the X-Equals blog. The individual volumes are now 2.5 USD and be sure to check out the X-Equals Big Box, which offers every preset and two e-books from the X-Equals site for a mere 7.5 USD (down from 29.95 USD). Now that’s a bargain if ever I saw one!

I normally like people to stay on my own blog, but in this case I completely understand if you hover over to the X-Equals blog. Better still, I’ll provide the link for you… As long as you promise to come back here every once in a while

P.S. When applying the presets, you should know that they were designed for Lightroom 2 (and hence the old 2003 Process Version. You might know that Lightroom 3 now has a Film Grain simulation slider (over at the Effects Panel) but that wasn’t so when the presets were created. The X-Equals Cold Storage Series presets simulate Film Grain with the sharpening controls. If you update the Process Version on your picture to PV 2010, you might find that it overdoes things. In that case, you could always restore the default Sharpening settings in the Detail Panel by Alt-Clicking on the Sharpening header in the Detail Panel (it will temporarily switch to ‘Reset Sharpening’) and in exchange apply a Film Grain from the Effects Panel. If you like this effect, you can then update the preset by right-clicking on it in the Presets Panel and choosing ‘Update with current settings’.