The Vignette and Toning presets don’t really fit into any of the other categories, so they get their own.  They can be used on color or black and white images, in combination with other presets or on their own.  They’re a great way to finish an image or modify a look from the B&W or Effects groups.

Fade Highlights

This preset compresses the tones on the highlight end of the scale, “pinching” the highlights from a pure white to a gray.  This lends a softer, moodier look to images.  Black and whites get a bit “steel-ier”.  When combined with one of the other split tones, the effect in the highlights becomes more pronounced.  This adds another dimension of possibilities to nearly all the other presets in the set.

Incidentally, this preset also relies on a unique hack to the Lightroom tone curve, much like Sketch, Bodie, and some of the Effects presets.

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Tone | –Nothing (Reset)–

This preset resets the split-tone settings to neutral, restoring either natural color or a neutral-toned B&W.

Afternoon Delight, Blue Flame, Chocolate Rain, Mulletron 3000, Purple Nurple, See-Pee-Ya!, Shower Of Gold

These presets all modify the split-toning settings to achieve global color shifts on both black & white and color images.  They can be used to modify the look of the effects or black and white presets – just run a tone preset after running something else to play with the overall color palette.  With some experimentation, there are hundreds of possibilities.

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Vignette | –Nothing (Reset)–

Resets the post-crop vignette sliders, thus removing any artistic vignette effects

Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael

Four vignettes, each with their own character.  Everyone has their favorite – which is yours?

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Vignette | Sloppy Seconds

Adds a rounded, quasi-sloppy border to the edge of the photo.  An easy, quick way to frame an image with a border in Lightroom.

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