- Sans Serif
402
- Calligraphy
53
- Display
558
- Bold
- Script
- Serif
301
- Retro
153
- Graffiti
67
- Y2K
67
- Elegant
201
- Western
76
- Gothic
77
- Futuristic
102
- Bubble
- Playful
165
- Art Deco
55
- Wedding
- Sports
- Brush
- Pixel
92
- Groovy
- Signature
90
- Cartoon
92
- Medieval
62
- Typewriter
55
- Blackletter
- Marker
84
- Grunge
56
- Monoline
52
- Handwriting
- Christmas
15
- Slab Serif
- Cursive
50
- Tall
- Tech
- Fun
86
- Modern
122
- Vintage
- Luxury
- Rounded
Lightroom presets
Lightroom presets store your favorite edits and apply them in one click, the fastest shortcut in photo editing. Ours ship as XMP for Lightroom Classic, CC and Camera Raw, plus DNG for mobile, with cinematic, film, portrait, earth-tone, and low-light looks and free packs to download.
Lightroom presets: saved edits for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
A preset is a stored set of develop-module values. Exposure, contrast, tone curve, HSL ranges, split toning, grain and lens corrections are recorded as numbers, and applying it writes those numbers onto another photo in a single step. Nothing is painted over the image and nothing is flattened, which is why every slider stays available afterwards. Think of it as a saved recipe for color grading: the saturation, luminance, and contrast moves a photographer would make by hand, repeated with every preset you click.
Adobe changed the format in 2018. Before that point they were .lrtemplate templates; everything after uses XMP, the same sidecar standard Lightroom already used for metadata. The practical consequence is a version floor: Lightroom Classic and CC from 7.3, Camera Raw from 10.3. On an iPhone or Android phone, Lightroom mobile presets usually arrive as DNG images with the values attached, or sync over from the desktop app through Adobe Creative Cloud.
They are a first draft, not a finished result. The values were chosen against one photograph with its own exposure, light and profile, and transferring them to a different shot transfers the numbers, not the outcome. A good one gets you most of the way, and beginners learn fast which panel to nudge next.
Lightroom preset packs in the collection
- Cinematic and teal-orange: darks pushed cool, skin held warm, the standard color separation of film grading.
- Analog and film emulation: lifted blacks, reduced contrast, grain, color casts taken from print and slide stock.
- Portrait grades: color adjustments that protect skin while shifting everything around it, including black-and-white conversions.
- Natural and earth tones: muted greens and browns for landscape, travel and interiors.
- Low light and moody: deep blacks with controlled noise, built for indoor and evening work.
- Vintage and airy looks: a vintage preset with faded darks next to bright sunset and sunny-day grades for an Instagram aesthetic.
- Seasonal and occasion sets: summer, Christmas, wedding and streetwear grades aimed at specific shoots.
How to use presets across a whole shoot
The workflow that saves time is batch synchronization. Correct one photograph fully, including exposure and color temperature, then copy the develop values and paste them across the selection. In Lightroom Classic this is Sync Settings; in the mobile app it is Copy Settings and Paste.
Images shot under different conditions still need individual exposure and temperature passes. What it carries reliably is the color relationship: the curve, the hue positions and the color grading wheels. Those are what make a set look consistent, and they survive the per-image corrections.
The format of the photo affects the result. Raw files retain highlight and dark information that the look can redistribute, so aggressive curves stay clean. A compressed image has already discarded that data, so the same values arrive harder and can band in skies or block up in the darks. Dialing it back is usually enough.
Where photographers put presets to work
- Wedding and event galleries: hundreds of images that must match across changing light.
- Brand and product photography: a repeatable color treatment across catalog updates.
- Editorial and travel: a consistent grade across a feature shot over several days.
- Creator and social content: feed cohesion built from color temperature and curve, not from filters.
- Portrait photography: skin-safe grading applied to a full set before retouching.
They come as XMP for computers and DNG for mobile. XMP loads into Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, and Photoshop's raw editor. DNG is an image with the look baked in: you import it into the phone app, copy its values, and paste them onto your own photo.
XMP works in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC 7.3 and later, Camera Raw 10.3 and later, and the mobile app. Adobe changed the format in 2018, so older versions require the previous .lrtemplate format and cannot read XMP.
Yes, on both formats, but results differ. RAW photos hold far more highlight and dark data, so adjustments stay clean. Compressed images have already discarded that information, so the same look applies more aggressively and can cause banding in skies and blotchy shadows.
It stores slider positions, not a finished result. It was built for a photo with specific exposure, color temperature, and camera profile. Applied to an image shot in different light, those same values produce a different look. Fix exposure first, then tweak its strength and the white balance to fit the new photo.
Start with one photo, tune it until correct, then copy those develop edits and paste them across the selected images. In Lightroom Classic this is Sync Settings. Photos shot in different lighting still need individual exposure and white balance corrections afterwards.
Yes. It only sets slider values, and every control stays editable afterwards. Lightroom works non-destructively, so the original image is never altered and the photo can be reset to its untouched state at any point.
Yes. Our collection has free presets you can download next to premium bundles, and each free download lists its license on the product page. A free preset is a good way to test a look on your own photos before buying a bundle.
A good preset works on photos shot in different light without breaking skin or skies. Look for gentle values and versions for bright and dark scenes, so your photos look consistent and still leave room to fine-tune.
Yes. Many photographers, especially in wedding and portrait work, use them as a base to keep hundreds of images consistent, then adjust each photo by hand. It does the heavy lifting on color, and the photographer still makes the final call.
In Lightroom Classic, open the Develop module, click the plus icon in the Presets panel, and choose Import Presets. In the Lightroom app for Mac and Windows, use File and then Import Profiles and Presets. They then sync to the mobile app through the cloud, and you can keep each pack in its own folder.
Grade a photo until you like it, then save the result as a preset. Click the plus icon or the three-dot menu in the Presets panel, choose Create Preset, pick what to include, and give it a clear name so it is easy to find later.
Apply the preset, then use the Amount slider to dial its strength up or down and correct the exposure for the new shot. If one color still looks off, change its hue or brightness in the color mixer.
Not on its own. ChatGPT can describe a look and suggest values, and it can even draft XMP code, but it cannot see your photos or test the result. Use its ideas as a starting point, then build and save it in your editing software.