Lightroom Presets
Adobe Lightroom makes it easy to organize and edit thousands of images and photographs. It’s trusted by photographers everywhere, and a key piece of software to know how to use as a designer. This series looks at how you can use Lightroom presets to create stunning end-results with your photos.
Adobe Lightroom is a go-to tool for photographers and designers that have to edit and manage images. Lightroom is designed to help you edit, organize, store, manage and even share photos across devices.
Because Lightroom is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, it comes with full paid plans or can be used as a standalone app. And there are plenty of presets available to help you make this most of this popular photography tool.
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In this collection, you’ll find the best cinematic Lightroom presets for achieving that iconic Hollywood look.
Inspired by film color grading techniques, these Lightroom presets enhance contrast, adjust tonal balance, and shift colors to create dramatic, movie-style visuals.
They’re widely used by photographers, content creators, and filmmakers to create a consistent visual mood across images.
Whether you’re editing portraits, travel photos, or dramatic landscapes, these presets will help you create images that feel rich, immersive, and cinematic.
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20+ Best Lightroom Presets for Sports Photography
Great sports photography captures more than just movement; it captures the emotion and intensity of the game. That’s where Lightroom presets come in.
With Sports Lightroom presets, you can streamline the editing process by applying carefully balanced adjustments to color grading, contrast, and sharpening, to maintain a consistent style across an entire photo set.
In this collection, you’ll find some of the best Lightroom presets for sports photography.
These presets are designed to highlight the action in everything from football games and basketball courts to outdoor adventure sports.
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20+ Best Vintage Lightroom Presets for Classic Looks
Achieving a classic look starts with the right preset that knows how to tame color and light.
This roundup highlights the best vintage Lightroom presets designed to bring atmosphere and character to your edits.
These presets are perfect for photo series, editorial portfolios, travel photography, and lifestyle visuals that benefit from an artistic and classic touch. When paired with thoughtful composition, they help your images tell stories that feel rich and memorable.
With the right vintage preset, your images will feel timeless, evocative, and beautifully classic.
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20+ Best Lightroom Presets for Consistent Skin Tones
Achieving consistent skin tones in your photos can transform a good image into a great one.
Lightroom presets are a game-changer for photographers seeking to streamline their editing process and maintain uniformity across their work.
In this collection of Lightroom presets, you’ll find tools crafted to help you achieve smooth, flattering, and natural skin across varied lighting conditions and environments.
These presets refine color balance, tone mapping, and subtle contrast so faces look true to life rather than washed out or overly stylized.
Whether you’re editing family photos, fashion portraits, or client work, these presets help you maintain trusted skin tone accuracy throughout your edits.
What Is A Lightroom Preset?

A Lightroom preset is a “package” of settings to help create a certain type of look for editing photos. Designers might have one set of presets to use for landscape images and another set of presets to enhance portraits.
A Lightroom preset can be saved and reused in Adobe’s software, and there are plenty of places to find presets for different types of images. The best thing about a preset is that you can change the look of an image instantly, taking a lot of time out of the editing process. (This can be a life-saver if you edit bulk images.)
5 Places to Find Lightroom Presets

If you really want to save time and get just the right effect, a Lightroom preset is the answer. There are plenty of places to find high-quality presets for projects.
- Envato Elements is a subscription-based graphic design service and is packed with Lightroom preset options (including the example above)
- The Luxe Lens has themed Lightroom presets – snow, portraits, etc. – at reasonable prices
- Filtergrade is a photography site that includes more than 1,000 Lightroom presets for every use you can imagine
- Creative Market has plenty of Lightroom presets (and preset bundles) that you can purchase a la carte
- Adobe has a collection of Lightroom presets available for download that are made by other users
How to Add a Preset to Lightroom

Adding a preset to Lightroom is pretty simple. Here’s how to do it:
- After you download the file – don’t forget to unzip it – open Lightroom and the “Develop” tab. Presets will be on the left side of the screen.
- Then, right- or command-click anywhere in the presets module to Import new presets. The preset will install in the folder you select in this step.
- Navigate to the preset on your desktop or in your downloads folder (or wherever you saved it) and click “import.”
- Done! The preset is ready to use.