YVR with Urban Acid Photoshop Action
Taken with the Canon 100-400mm L

I came across a neat Photoshop action that allows you to tweak your image so that it has a cross-processed and somewhat faded look. The Urban Acid action has a small community of people who use it -- it's useful for editorial, funky party shots and some extraordinary street portraits. Since I converted to Lightroom I haven't done a lot of Photoshop work. Lightroom is just too easy. Nevertheless, for some heavy duty tweaking Photoshop is still the king. Today the maker of Urban Acid produced a Lightroom preset that attempts to match the action. It's nice but it really doesn't give you the same amount of control. The photo at the top was done with the action. What I like about the action is that it gives you an additional layer to mute the colors, which I thought was the special feature of Urban Acid. Lightroom just doesn't have that control.

You can see the Lightroom version of this photo here:

YVR with Lightroom Urban Acid preset

The original photo with only exposure tweaks in Lightroom is here:

YVR original

Discussion about the new Lightroom preset here in the Urban Acid Flickr group.