Hey all--

Like I imagine many of you are, I'm an Adobe Lightroom user for all of my post processing of photos on here and I absolutely love the workflow it allows for. I've made a few presets for the software that I use pretty often, and I figured it would be cool to share some of them with the community to see what everyone thinks.

Here's a download link to some of mine:


xAxKx - Lightroom Presets


The file hierarchy/folder locations of the Develop Presets folder can be found here for both Windows and Mac (I'm a Mac user).

Hope you guys find some use for them, whether it be single-click development or as foundational presets for your own color processing! If anyone else has any they'd be open to sharing with the UE community, I think it would be awesome to get a pool of style ideas going. I'm hoping we can all share a bunch of techniques and advance all of our photo capabilities that much further!

EDIT: As Ground State mentioned below, this is a Dropbox link that you'll have to click through in order to take you to a download page. Also, these presets manipulate most of the parameters in Lightroom except for White Balance, Exposure, Highlights, and Shadows. I figured those were the main differences between every photo I take, so they'd require manual adjustment each time.

Let me know what you think, and definitely feel free to post your own presets if you have them/feel like sharing!

Thanks so much! I really loved how some of those presets make your pictures look. The only presets I have currently are these, which are technically free, but he asks for donations. I haven't made any myself yet, though I should probably do so at some point.

I find that wandering through preset lists often takes far more time and is endlessly more confusing than just manually editing. But with that said, I gave the list a download and zinged off a try with one of my newest shots.


No Escape Room by Ground State Photos, on Flickr

For anyone using Chrome, Google was being a bitch with xAxKx's files and trying to identify them as web pages when right-clicking and saving. Try the button in the top right to just DL all of them as a zip file. When unzipping them, the file extensions were properly intact and usable.

Thanks xAxKx!

I tried presets a couple of times back when I still used LR and also thought that they made the editing process much more difficult versus manually choosing how to treat your RAW file. Maybe I'm just slightly jaded because if you want to make digital files look like film then just shoot film (I personally prefer film for most subjects).

Will these work for Photoshop or just LR? I'd probably fuck around with them if they can be used with PS. I just don't want to download LR if I don't need to haha

Posted by southshore I tried presets a couple of times back when I still used LR and also thought that they made the editing process much more difficult versus manually choosing how to treat your RAW file. Maybe I'm just slightly jaded because if you want to make digital files look like film then just shoot film (I personally prefer film for most subjects).

X2 for my flow and taste.