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The Free Lightroom Preset Directory. (Updated Oct 1st 2008)
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Welcome to the biggest most up to date list of free presets for Adobe Lightroom. Often our crazy desire for Lightroom presets is held back only because we don’t know where to find more. Until now that is. If you know of other cool free Lightroom presets let us know. Also note that presets effect RAW & JPEG files very differently. For more about that see RAW vs JPEG presets. OK on to the free presets.

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Our Favorite Develop Presets - See How To Install 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 Effects Free Lightroom Presets:
  You should find these a great addition to your growing library. Gavin Seim gives away selections from his larger preset collections that are sure to please. Some even have both JPEG & RAW versions.
• InsideLightroom.com presets:
  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.
• Xequals Photography Presets
  Once you get past a slightly awkward site, you’ll find a fair variety of free presets over here.
• NEW ~ Preset Heaven:
  This is a blog where you’ll find a variety of presets. Nice place to get some sweet goodies.

More Cool Develop Presets

• Stellar Times Free Presets:
• Heather Green’s Enhancer Presets:
• 640 Pixels free presets:
• Katherine’s Blog & a pink preset:
• Scenic World Presets:
• Chrome and New York presets from Vert:
• Really Japans Presets:
  These are harsh B&W’s, meant for mostly high ISO type looks.
• Wonderland: A few samples from their Lightroom Presets collection:
• NEW ~ Simonetta Rossi’s Free Presets: Not a ton here, but a few sky brighteners you might enjoy.
• NEW ~ Cake & Dohnuts Presets: Two vintage looking presets from the Illustrated Journey blog
• NEW ~ Rockstar B&W & Soda Pop presets: from Christopher Bartelski.

Presets with enhancements for specific Camera’s & Lenses

• Nikon D300 Preset
• Leica M8 Presets
• CA Reduction for Nikon’s 18-200VR

Free Lightroom Brush Presets (v2 only)-How To Install Lightroom Brush Presets

• NEW Matt’s Light/Dark Brush Presets: A simple set of brushes for burning and dodging
• NEW Matt’s Enhancer Brushes:
• NEW Seim Effects Free Brush Presets Collection: A brushes set for Skin Softening, Burning, Dodging, more.

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