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The Free Lightroom Preset Directory. (Updated July 21st 2008)

Welcome to the biggest most up to date list of places for free lightroom presets! Often our lust for lightroom presets is held back only by the fact that we don’t know where to find more. If you know of other cool free lightroom presets drop a comment.

Also check out our Seim Effects Lightroom Presets, Actions and Effects Store. For some complete workflow collections. Use promo code PPS to save 10% on your order.

It should also be noted that presets effect RAW & JPEG very differently. For more about it see this article. Also look here for  How To Install Lightroom presets. OK on to the free stuff.

• Our Favorite Free Lightroom Presets

• Lightroom Presets on the Adobe Exchange
  There’s not very many here yet, but the Exchange has always been a great place to get ad ons for Adobe products. Keep an eye on it.
• Seim’s Free Lightroom presets and effects
  You should find these a great addition to your growing library. Gavin Seim gives away selections from his larger preset collections like that are sure to please. Effects and workflow presets, Black and White/Infrared presets, and a Vintage preset. Some even have both JPEG & RAW versions.
• InsideLightroom.com
  Here you’ll find eight categories, inside of which area great variety of free lightroom presets. It has examples of what the preset does. There’s everything from camera calibration presets, to color effects here. You’ll also find a useful PDF Download about using and making your own presets. One of my favorites are the two 300 presets listed in the color effects.
• LightrooomPresets.com
  This a good place to pick up some variety for you free LR preset collection and get some cool effects rolling. You’ll also find dome HDR prep presets here towards the bottom of the page.
• Karin Knowland
  Here’s a nice batch of over a dozen presets that will give you a nice variety of effects.
• Adobe Exchange Presets
  The Adobe exchange has all kinds of free stuff posted up by actual users and designers. This LR category is new, but it will fill up soon to be sure.
• Sean McCormack’s IR Presets
  Sean has an article here on the Lightroom News Blog talking about Infrared in LR, and he lets you download some of his IR results.
• Jack Davis’s WOW Lightroom Preset Collection
  This is a download from our friends over at OneOne Software, and yep it’s free. It’s a large preset collection that is organized in a tidy list. You can drag you mouse over the list and see the variation as they subtly change (low contrast to high contrast for example. Very well put together with lots of effects.
• Lightroom Killer Tips presets
  Aside from a great LR video cast, Matt Kloskowski from Photoshop TV posts various presets on the site that you can download for free.
• Lightroom Essentials From L7photo.com
  Here’s a collection of free presets that includes a varied array from auto corrections to white balance adjustments to help speed up your photo modifications. You’ll find the full list on their site.
• markus-dollinger.de Lightroom Presets.
  This site is not in English, but Lightroom is a pretty universal language for us, and download links work in any language. This is a set of six free presets that do some cool selective color effects, some general punches, etc (there’s a sample gallery)
• Presets by Kelsey Smith
  Kelsy has some cool stuff on her blog. Here you can download most of her presets all in in place.
• NEW ~ XWorld Presets Page
  They have a nice varied selection of presets worth checking out. A lot of them are to mimic various film styles.
• NEW ~Kim Longs 70’s Set
  Though that faded 70’s look is something most photographers were happy to grow out of, it’s still a cool collection that will give you the retro look you want on certain shots

• More Presets you should check out
  Here’s some sites and blogs we’ve found with a few more free presets on them worth checking out
• Stellar Times Free Presets.
• Heather Green’s Enhancer Presets
• 640 Pixels free presets
• Katherine’s Blog & a pink preset
• Scenic World Presets
• NEW ~ Vert has few here including the Chrome and New York presets
• NEW ~Really Japans Presets. These are harshB&W’s, meant for mostly high ISO shots.

• Presets for specific Camera’s & Lenses
  If you looking for Lightroom Presets to you you get better shots from your camera here a few worth checking out.
• Nikon D300 Preset
• Nikon D200 Preset
• Canon 40D & 5D presets
• Leica M8 Presets
• CA Reduction for Nikon’s 18-200VR

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