This is my marketplace for  presets and actions.  Every year I declassify some of the previous years actions and presets.  I am currently using my Pure  (version 3) action to process my own photos.  Pure will be released sometime in the next couple years; however, the process involves third party filters that Photoshop lacks the capability to reproduce.  Luminance (Found in the MAK Portrait Tool Kit) is based on Pure version 1. 

LR-Preset Collection 1 gives you 6 color presets for your final images, as well as some RAW import presets, for those that are less advanced in making their own RAW presets.  You can tweak these presets to fit your own needs; however, I feel they will give you a good base to work with. 

These are not the same presets that I use in my work; however, I did take care in creating them for others to use.  I tested these presets with a variety of images.  Some of the looks are conservative, and designed to work with many types of images.  Others work better on certain images. 

Feel free to try them out for 30 days! 

If you like these presets, please pay the small $5.00 price to continue using them legally.  If you provide your correct e-mail when you pay, you will get a discount off version 2 (upon release).  

MAK Portrait Tool Kit v.1 is a good basic workflow for those that are starting out in portrait photography.  Some tools, such as Luminance, are advanced and have many steps.  It is recommended that you have a newer computer with at least 1 gigabyte of free RAM to use these actions.

Some of these actions use layer masks so you can paint over where you want to apply the action.  If you are not familiar with layer masks, you may want to learn how to use them first. 

If you are not sure about it, try it for 30 days! 

If you like these presets, please pay the $25.00 price to continue using them legally.  If you provide your correct e-mail when you pay, you will get a discount off version 2 (upon release).

Contrast Plus

Contrast Plus is is a very good action for boosting contrast without loosing a lot of detail in darks.  Feel free to try out this tool before you buy it; however, keep in mind that I work on the honor system.  If you want to keep these actions at a low cost, I need your support. 

This action, like some of my others, involves many complex steps. It is not recommended for older systems.  You should have plenty of free RAM. 

If you like it, please pay the $5.00 to continue using it legally!

HDR Faux

HDR Faux does not go to extremes.  I limited some of the manipulations I commonly see, such as  adding a lot of contrast to blues and greens to the extent it does not work at all in certain pictures.  As is common, there is a slight halo effect caused by the filters. 

Red Filter Black & White

Getting a good red filtered look is not overly complicate; however, this is not your standard red filter.  There are a lot of steps that go into making this special filter.  Although it is free, there are rights reserved on this one.  You may not use the steps in the process on this one to make a filter of your own. 

Saturation Plus

Use this tool to boost saturation without looking too punchy.  This is far from the look that you get by adding some saturation or by using curves in RGB mode.  This tool is not included in the portrait tool kit, but might make a nice addition.  Feel free to make changes. 

OverExposed

This is a good action to run on images that are slightly overexposed.  It cannot do anything for parts of the image that are blown out (pure white); however, it is free, so it may be worth a shot.