Lightroom 2 Nikon Color Preset

Camera calibration setting within Lightroom 2 by comparing against View NX

Being accustom to Capture NX / View NX the switch to Lightroom 2 had some quirks. One which really irritated me was Lightroom "removing" default in camera Nikon colors from your images. Through some fine tuning on the Camera Calibration within Lightroom 2 you can get close to 98% of your original in camera Nikon color back. All you need to do is head on down to Lightroom Develop section and click on the camera calibration module. The adjustments which I made were:

Profile: ACR 4.4
Shadows: 0

Red Primary
Hue: 0
Saturation: -30

Green Primary
Hue: +10
Saturation: +15

Blue Primary
Hue: 0
Saturation: -25

Please note that the above adjustments were done according to my own preference. You can use the adjustments above as a base for further fine tuning to your liking. Once you are done you can save this adjustments as a preset which would enable you to apply changes on a global level / to a batch of images. Follow the image below to create a preset.