The best Lightroom presets

An example photo with one of the best Lightroom presets applied
(Image credit: Free Presets)

The best Lightroom presets can save a lot of time when you're editing photos, allowing you to get closer to the look you want without as much tweaking on each individual photo. Although every photo's different, and you'll normally still want to make some finer adjustments, a good preset can give you a huge head start. 

Lightroom comes with a big bundle of presets includes, but you can expand your options by installing more. There are lots of paid-for and free Lightroom presets out there that can take some of the repetition out of post-processing, allowing you to create a desired look or mood without having to go through adjusting every slider from scratch. They work in both the mobile version of Lightroom as well as Lightroom classic, and they live there in the dedicated panel in the Develop module, so you always have them at your fingertips.

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