Lightroom Presets

Presets are really useful. You can either use what is available, tune it further or create your own. Below are some quick links to get you started:

Creating Your own Presets

Thought I gave you the link instead of reinventing the wheel.
1. Youtube Walk through if you are lazy to read
2. Taken from DPS if you like to read

Read Made Presets
1. PresetsHeaven - the biggest resource for free “high quality” Lightroom presets on the Internet
2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Website Presets

How to Install and Manage Presets
1. Pro Photo Website tips on managing your presets like a fanatic

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.