Lightroom Plugins – Capture Monkey

The Fader 5th Anniversary Release

jarnoh — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:05:03 +0000

The Fader is easily the most popular of my Lightroom plugins. It is also one of the oldest ones. In fact, the first release was published on September 29th, 2010, which makes it exactly five years old!

The plugin was born from my personal need. I wanted to tone down some presets that I had created, but adjusting 100+ sliders was really complicated, even though I am fairly proficient with Lightroom. The Fader hides all the complexity of different sliders under single, easily understable slider interface.

Over the years, it has gained a lot of more features. The current version also adjusts strength of gradient filters, radial filters and smoothly blends between different RGB Tone Curves!

So, let’s celebrate the anniversary with some special announcements!

Firstly, there is a new release available with version number 1.0. After 160 releases, I guess it is time to call it a complete piece of work. And don’t worry, I’m not stopping development!

Secondly, the new release finally has a fix for Lightroom GPU issue, where the large photo view would not update when tone curves were applied. It is a bug in Lightroom, but I have managed to workaround it.

~~Thirdly, the registration to full version is now only $4.99 until end of October! (-50% off from regular price of $10.00).~~ You can register the plugin after installing in LR Plugin Manager, the Paypal transaction ID in your receipt is the registration code). The registration is valid for life, for all upcoming updates.

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The Fader 0.8.1122

jarnoh — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 22:32:55 +0000

The Fader is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom plugin for adjusting develop preset strength with a single slider

This release contains new preference for defaulting to “zeroed” preset, this allows you to
rapidly fade out too excessive presets. It is also shown first time for new users until the
first preset is selected. I hope this helps you if you are starting with The Fader.

Additionally, there is now support for LR6.1 features, such as fading crop settings and dehaze slider value.

Download

Download thefader_r1122.zip

NOTE: Lightroom 6.x has issues when GPU rendering is enabled. If preset contains tone curves, the develop photo view does not update properly (smaller navigator windows does update). The work around is to click slider second time.

Changes in version 0.8.1122

On first run, autoselects Zeroed preset (plus preferences option)
LR6: Added support for Dehaze slider (new in LR 2015.1 release)
LR6: Added ability to fade Crop settings

The Fader 0.8.1034

jarnoh — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:04:22 +0000

Lightroom CC (or 6.0) was just released and one of the biggest (only?) change is support for GPU processing. Initially, I thought that The Fader worked fine, but after some testing I noticed a side effect when GPU is enabled. The develop view did not refresh correctly, it took two adjustments to make the view refresh.

Luckily, LR6 also seems to support new API features, but these are currently not documented. I took the time to figure out some of the new API and using this new API fixed the LR6 GPU issue and additionally it is slightly faster.

Download

Download thefader_r1071.zip

NOTE: Lightroom 6.x has issues with GPU rendering enabled. If preset contains tone curves, the develop photo view does not update properly (smaller navigator windows does update). The work around is to click slider second time.

Changes in version 0.8.1071

Workaround for LR6 API issues with multiple settings not updating in loupe correctly
Workaround for LR6 API issues with different process versions
Using new API provided by Lightroom 6

The Fader 0.8.1028

jarnoh — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:58:42 +0000

This release brings some bug
fixes to fading gradial and radial filters. Lightroom has unique idenfier for each gradient, and now you can fading between different gradients, but if the matching identifiers are considered as same, so you will not got two duplicates.

Additionally, by user request, there is an experimental feature to override fading of gradients. By checking this option, you can combine several filter presets on top of each other (just apply them using The Fader and click OK in between).

Download

Download thefader_r1028.zip

Changes in version 0.8.1028

Ability to override local adjustments from photo to allow layering gradients
Bugfixes for fading gradients and radial filters
Added more fields (e.g. defringe) to Lens Corrections enable toggle

Happy New (Tax) Year 2015!

jarnoh — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:30:57 +0000

2014 has been a blast, and I’m looking forward for what will happen in 2015!

One minor announance in between 2014 and 2015 is the new EU VAT legislation.

In 2015, all VAT is now collected in EU customer’s residence country, which requires some changes in plugin registration backend. All the changes are now in production, so we are now fully VAT MOSS compatible.

All EU customers are now charged with their local VAT by their residence as detected by Paypal.

The Fader Tutorial-Video von Shootcamp.at (auf Deutsch)

jarnoh — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:59:38 +0000

Christian Anderl from Shootcamp has created a great tutorial video of The Fader in German, it is about 3 minutes long and shows you quite nicely what you can achieve with it.

Christian Anderln von shootcamp.at hat ein tolles Tutorial-Video von The Fader erstellt. Das Video ist 3 Minuten lang und zeigt die wichtigsten Funktionen.

Danke Christian!

The Fader 0.8.985

jarnoh — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:00:15 +0000

This release fixes issue with linear RGB curves, the previous releases algorithm caused huge colorshift for curves which had non-zero starting points. Thanks for Sarah T. for bringing this issue into my attention.

There are also some other minor improvements, e.g. the sections which do not affect current photo are dimmed (in registered version only).

Download

Download thefader_r985.zip

Changes in version 0.8.985

Fixed fading Tone Curves with linear knees
Disable section checkboxes with same settings as current
Enabled fading in preset gradients even if photo has no gradients
Improved Process Version handing by always using preset process version
when Camera Calibration is enabled

LeakLite 0.4.929

jarnoh — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:13:09 +0000

I had an old prototype old randomized RGB color curve generation routine lying around, so I added it into Leak Lite.

It generates separate Red/Green/Blue tonecurves with three points, adjusted by small amount to go a little bit off linear curve, so it looks something like a cross-processing effect. Since you can disable all other effects by unticking the checkboxes, LeakLite now functions as a color preset generator!

Download

Download leaklite_r929.zip

Changes in version 0.4.929

Added shuffled RGB curves
Store checkboxes to preferences

The Fader 0.7.918

jarnoh — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:45:35 +0000

Yet another maintenance release with important bug fix for Black and White mixer sliders, which got broken when I added section checkboxes (the B&W slider were not included in the HSL section, as you would have expected).

Additionally, the preset cache is back by user request. I tried several workarounds in order to get Lightroom to load presets faster, but none of them really worked. Now the plugin simply tells you to restart when it detects a missing preset.

There are also some tiny changes here and there, most visible is perhaps the warning sign for incompatible process versions. Earlier this warning sign was displayed only if you were e.g. trying to fade between photo with Process Version 2003 and preset with Process Versions 2012. Now it also displays when trying to fade color image into B&W treatment. For reasons beyond my comprehension, the color sliders in them produce different results, so it is not possible to fade between HSL and B&W mixer sliders. Of course, it is only a warning which you can freely ignore it, if you are interested in some other section values, such as Split Toning.

Download

Download thefader_r918.zip

Changes in version 0.7.918

Fixed fading Black & White mix sliders (oops!)
Preset caching is back, with preference to disable it and cache flush
when preset is not found.
Added process version warning when fading between color and B&W treatment
Added menu keyboard shortcut for Windows (practically useless, but it is there)
Workaround for disappearing ampersand characters in pulldown menus

The Fader 0.7.899

jarnoh — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:47:25 +0000

Another big update with support for gradual filters! And as always, some little bugfixes and improvements as well.

Starting with section checkboxes, they now indicate which sections of the preset are being faded. If the section checkbox is disabled, there is no settings for that sections in the chosen preset. It is quite helpful if you have partial presets (e.g. separate split toning preset, or just curves or…)

Fading of gradual filters is now supported, but as this is a bit of advanced feature – you need to know how the presets actually work. If there is no gradual filters in the preset, The Fader will keep the current values. So, to fade out current gradual filters, you just fade in “Reset Graduated Filters” preset, which I’ve written for this purpose.

Anyway, fading gradual filters also enables special tricks with Clarity, you can add multiple 100% clarity layers to create what I call “SuperClarity“, clarity effect that exceeds the 100% range of normal clarity slider. See photo below for example on this.

Download

Download thefader_r899.zip

Changes in version 0.7.899

Added fading of graduated and radial filters
Fixed accessing snapshots via virtual copy
Disable section checkboxes when chosen preset does not affect that section
Disabled preset caching, it caused updated presets no to do anything when
fading

Old Fishing Net by Jarno Heikkinen on 500px