Outstanding sir... - Johnny Worthington

What post-processing, if any, did you use to get this result? Up the vibrancy? Light fill? - Kevin Fox

Thanks Johnny! - Justin Korn

Kornbread: post = LR punch + increase vibrance and clarity. Some boosting of contrast and fill light? - Mona Nomura

HA! Any other guesses?? - Justin Korn

Lemme launch LR. BRB *added: Increase of Blacks, recovery, and clarity -- all done via Quick Develop. Forget what ya heard, LR cuts PS workflow down by 95%. Not even kidding. - Mona Nomura

@Mona - you aren't very far off, i'll tell you that (from the first guess) - Justin Korn

Second guess is a bit further off...I never use quick develop - Justin Korn

Hmmm really? Quick Develop is the easiest for me. I just go through all the options and increase. Went to the next window over for the first time the other day and was shocked to see Vignette LOL Quick Develop ftw. - Mona Nomura

There are soooo many extra options available in full mode. You gotta start playing with the stuff at the top like Graduation filter and adjustment brush...they are KEY - Justin Korn

Anywho...here is what I did (roughly): Lightroom...actually used the Direct Positive Preset, added a graduated filter from bottom to top adjusting the Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation specifically on the bottom portion, adjusted White Balance, bumped Vibrance and Saturation on entire image and played with the Tone Curve a bit. Finally removed a few dust spots. Any questions? - Justin Korn

My Favourite is: The Aged Photo preset, then set the white balance back to auto, bump up the blacks and then slide saturation back around zero. It takes some tweaks from then but gives a look I like :) - Johnny Worthington

I really like the Aged look as well, but I usually end up making that look myself rather then using the Preset...I rarely actually use the built in presets. Sometimes I'll play with them to get ideas if I don't already have an idea of what I want the image to look like. - Justin Korn

Indeed. I created a preset based off the Aged Photo called 'Fancypants' as I was going to the style of Carlotta :) - Johnny Worthington

Carlotta Fancypants is awesome! - Justin Korn from IM

This conversation, though old now, spawned a blog post: http://bit.ly/6ppQo (Kevin Fox, hope this helps answer your initial question) (FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/justink...) - Justin Korn

Thank you! That's a great blog post. - Kevin Fox