Unlike taking portrait photos, capturing beautiful scenes in travel and landscape photos is quite difficult because you have to work with the natural lighting conditions. With the power of a landscape Lightroom preset, you can add incredible depth and personality to your landscape photos with just a few clicks!
Whether you’re a professional photographer using a DSLR or a traveler snapping photos with a smartphone, Lightroom is a must-have app that will help improve your landscape photos. One of the many benefits of using Lightroom is the ability to use presets. With a simple Lightroom preset, you can instantly optimize your photos, adjust colors, lighting, and more with just one-click.
In this collection, we handpicked some of the best landscape Lightroom presets you can use to enhance your outdoor photos without having to spend hours adjusting and optimizing settings in Photoshop.
We’re also featuring a set of tips for editing landscape photos, with helpful ideas and advice.
30 Cross Processing Lightroom Presets
Cross processing is a technique photographers used back in the day to create a unique effect by processing film using a chemical made for a different type of film. This bundle comes with 30 different Lightroom presets that allows you to recreate that same effect in your landscape photos.
The presets work with RAW, TIFF, JPG, and PSD file formats and they are compatible with Lightroom 4 and higher.
Why This Is A Top Pick
This is a collection of presets that will allow you to add a unique nostalgic effect to your photos unlike any other effect or filter on our list. The presets also work with the mobile version of the Lightroom app as well.
Sunset Desert Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
This bundle of Lightroom presets are made for adding effects and improvements to photos you take under heavy sunshine. It includes 11 presets that are designed to adjust tone and add a warm effect to your photos. The presets work with both desktop and mobile versions of Lightroom app.
30+ HDR Drone Photography Lightroom Presets
If you’re a landscape photographer who works with drone photography, this bundle is a must-have for enhancing your aerial photos. It includes more than 30 different Lightroom presets that improve photos with various adjustments and filters.
Adventure – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
Adventure is a bundle of Lightroom presets compatible with both mobile and desktop versions of the app. The presets have been specially optimized for enhancing outdoor landscape photos. It comes with 11 Lightroom presets and a CameraRaw action file for Photoshop.
Moscow Travel – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
This bundle comes with 9 creative filter effects that will allow you to add a stylish Moscow-inspired look to your landscape travel photos. The presets in this pack can also be easily customized to fit different light settings and they are compatible with desktop and mobile Lightroom as well.
Nature – Landscape Lightroom Presets Collection
If you’re a fan of nature photography this bundle of Lightroom presets will come in handy. It includes 11 premium presets that will help improve your nature and landscape photos by adjusting contrast and making the colors pop.
12 Free Street Photography Lightroom Presets
This collection of free Lightroom presets include several types of effects and filters made for improving urban and street photography. The presets work with both JPG and RAW images.
Free Outdoor Lightroom Presets
Looking for presets to improve your outdoor landscape photos? Then this free bundle is for you. It includes 4 Lightroom presets and 4 CameraRAW presets, all of which are fully customizable.
50 Wanderlust Landscape Lightroom Presets
This is a collection of 50 different Lightroom presets that features various effects and filters you can use with your outdoor landscape photography. The pack includes vintage-themed effects as well as filters that will make the colors pop. They are compatible with both desktop and mobile versions of the app.
50 Urban City Landscape Lightroom Presets
Another big collection of Lightroom presets for outdoor and urban photographers. This bundle comes with 50 unique presets featuring effects and filters in 10 different categories. They are perfect for all kinds of urban and cityscape photos.
Orange and Teal Outdoor Lightroom Presets
Using these creative Lightroom presets, you can apply the popular orange and teal effect to your outdoor photos without a hassle. It includes 8 different variations of the preset with easily customizable adjustments.
Safari – Travel Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
If you’re a travel photographer who takes lots of nature photos, this presets pack is a must-have for you. It includes 11 unique presets designed to optimize your outdoor nature photos with the right lighting and contrast.
Vintage Garden – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
This is a free Lightroom preset you can use to easily enhance landscape photos that you take under low-light conditions. It’s especially suitable for enhancing indoor photos as well as photos taken under gloomy weather conditions.
50 Travel Filmmaker Lightroom Presets
A massive bundle of Lightroom presets made specifically for travel photographers. This bundle includes 50 different presets in 5 different categories featuring presets inspired by vintage film, matte film, and more. All presets are compatible with Lightroom mobile and desktop apps.
Coastal – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
If you’re looking for Lightroom presets to enhance your summer beach-side photos with classic vintage and subtle effects, this bundle is perfect for you. It includes 11 different Lightroom presets that allow you to optimize the lighting and colors of your outdoor landscape photos.
50 Desolated Cinematic Lightroom Presets
Give your outdoor landscape photos a dark and moody tone using this big collection of Lightroom presets. It includes 50 different presets featuring grunge and moody effects. You can easily customize the presets to your preference as well.
50 Istanbul Travel Lightroom Presets
This bundle comes with 50 Lightroom presets featuring effects inspired by the beautiful city of Istanbul. In addition, it also includes many other presets inspired by different popular cities in European countries. The presets are compatible with Lightroom and many other apps.
Blue Sky Dream – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
A high-quality and free Lightroom preset you can use to improve your outdoor landscape photos. This effect not only adjusts the lighting of your photos but also helps enhance colors and exposure to bring out the details as well.
Garden – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
Garden is a collection of Lightroom presets optimized to improve outdoor portrait and landscape photos. It comes with 11 presets that you can adjust to your preference for making your photos look more professional.
50 Winter Landscape Lightroom Presets
This is a bundle of 50 Lightroom presets featuring winter-themed effects. These presets will help improve your photos taken in cold and winter settings, especially ones taken in low light conditions.
Real Estate – Lightroom Presets Collection
A great way to attract more potential buyers to a house on sale is to make the photos look great on your website. The landscape Lightroom presets in this pack are specially designed for improving real estate photos.
30 Free Landscape Lightroom Presets
If you’re looking for a set of creative Lightroom presets for adding stylish effects to enhance your nature and landscape photos, this bundle is perfect for you.
This pack comes with 30 Lightroom presets featuring various effects and filters you can use with both RAW and JPG files and are also free to use with personal and commercial projects.
As a free download, this bundle of Lightroom presets is a great choice for making simple improvements to landscape photos. The presets also works with both older versions and new versions of the Lightroom app.
100 Landscape Lightroom Presets Pack
A massive bundle of 100 creative Lightroom presets for optimizing your landscape photos. This pack comes with various styles of filters and effects for enhancing nature and outdoor photos. The presets are compatible with Lightroom 4 and higher.
Traveling Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets Pack
This is a must-have Lightroom presets bundle for travel photographers and Instagram bloggers. It includes 11 stylish filter that makes your travel photos look one of a kind. The presets are fully customizable and comes with Photoshop action version as well.
Free Atacama Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset features a stylish filter effect that adds quite an attractive and warm look to your landscape photos. The preset is easily editable and works with both Lightroom desktop and mobile apps.
Free FilmStreet Lightroom Presets
Another collection of Lightroom presets made for street photography. The presets in this bundle will help you add a moody effect to your urban street photos.
DUBAI – Landscape Lightroom Presets
This is a set of 2 Lightroom presets that feature effects and optimizations inspired by the beautiful city, Dubai. The presets have been crafted by a professional designer and can be easily customized to your preference.
Golden Hour – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets
Add a bright and beautiful warm glow to your outdoor photos using this pack of Lightroom presets. It comes with 11 unique presets that are compatible with Lightroom desktop and mobile apps. A Photoshop CameraRaw action file is also included.
Travel Lightroom Presets Collection
This is a bundle of Lightroom presets designed for enhancing and optimizing outdoor landscape photos, especially travel photos. It comes with 15 unique presets that will instantly improve your travel photos by adjusting the tone and lighting as well as shading, contrast, and by adding cold and warm tones.
Burgundy – Landscape Lightroom Presets
The Lightroom presets in this bundle are specially designed to give your landscape photos a warm vintage tone that will make your photographs look like art. These presets are perfect for preparing landscape photos for social media, websites, and magazine photo shoots. It comes with 14 different Lightroom presets with unique effects.
Urban Desaturated Lightroom Presets
This collection includes several unique effects for generating an authentic look for your urban and street photos. It comes with 20 high-quality Lightroom presets that optimize landscape photos with a contrasted look. The pack also includes several unique black and white presets as well as desaturated presets with different colored tones.
Forests & Sands – Landscape Lightroom Presets
If you’re a photographer who takes a lot of outdoor landscape photos in nature, then this bundle of Lightroom presets will come in handy. This pack features 12 unique presets with 20 additional variations, making a total of 32 Lightroom presets. Each preset in this pack are optimized for giving photos different looks, like morning, sea, evening, and more.
15 Free Landscape Lightroom Presets
This collection of free Lightroom presets include 15 different effects for improving outdoor and landscape photos. These presets are most suitable for improving family, wedding, and nature photos.
10 Creative Landscape Lightroom Presets
A bundle of premium-quality Lightroom presets featuring colorful and toning effects for improving all kinds of landscape photos. The presets are free to use and works well with both JPG and RAW file formats.
Urban Walk – Lightroom Presets
Another bundle of Lightroom presets specially made for optimizing urban landscape photos. It includes 20 unique presets featuring different types of tones and effects, such as ones with matte colors, vintage, night, cold color, and more. These presets will make your fashion and street photos look more professional.
The Wonderlust – Landscape Lightroom Presets
Wunderlust is a collection of Lightroom presets created to improve your travel, holiday, and outdoor landscape photos. This pack comes with 10 presets that will instantly optimize your photos to look more beautiful and authentic.
Street Photography Lightroom Presets
This collection of Lightroom presets are made specifically for photographers and designers who mostly work with street photography. This bundle includes 13 Lightroom presets for improving the lighting and tone of the photos. It has a mix of B&W, film, and night style effects as well.
40 Traveller Lightroom Profiles and LUTs
This is a collection of Lightroom profiles optimized for travel photography that allows you to instantly enhance your photos using pre-made settings. The collection includes 40 different profiles made for Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic, and even comes with profiles for Photoshop Camera Raw.
Summertime Lifestyle Lightroom Presets
If you’re looking for a set of Lightroom presets to give a special summer-like vibe to your photos, this bundle with come in handy. It includes 20 different Lightroom presets that will instantly give a summer vibe to your outdoor landscape photos.
Orange Teal Lightroom Presets and LUTs
Orange and Teal is a collection of 26 unique Lightroom presets that are made for optimizing the colors of your photos to make them look more bright and vibrant. The effects in this pack are inspired by the movie Train to Busan and popular social media influencers.
Daydream Lightroom Presets and LUTs
This collection comes with a set of fadeable Lightroom presets that you can instantly apply to your photos to adjust color balance and tone. The bundle includes 14 unique presets, each with 5 different variants. That’s a total of 70 presets.
Analogue Film Lightroom Presets
Give your photos a retro and old-school look using this set of Lightroom presets. This bundle comes with 20 unique presets for adjusting the lighting, colors, and tone of your photos to create a vintage look and feel.
Faded Landscape Lightroom Presets
Featuring 30 different Lightroom presets, this bundle will be quite useful to photographers who use a faded style in their outdoor and landscape photography. The presets in this pack works with PSD, JPG, RAW, and TIFF file formats as well.
Summer Light Leak Lightroom Presets
Use the Lightroom presets in this pack to quickly create a unique light leak effect in your photos to give a vibrant summer-like feel. It comes with 20 different presets that works well with outdoor landscape and street photography.
Cross Process Lightroom Presets
This collection includes a set of adjustment Lightroom presets for making those basic photo retouching, color, brightness, and toning adjustment with just one-click. The bundle comes with 43 different presets for achieving different effects.
Retro Colour Lightroom Presets Vol 1
A set of Lightroom presets made for giving an old retro feel to your landscape photos. This pack includes 15 presets that works with Lightroom 4 and above. The presets will also work with JPEG and RAW file formats.
The Travel Collection – Lightroom Presets Vol.2
This bundle of Lightroom presets are made for travel photographers. It comes with 15 unique presets for optimizing the lighting and tone of your travel scenery photos. You can also easily customize the effects to your preference as well.
Urban Desaturated Lightroom Presets and LUTs
Another set of Lightroom presets that allows you to give a desaturated look to your urban landscape photos. This pack 24 Lightroom presets, each with 5 different strengths. Making a total of 120 presets. These presets are ideal for street photography as well.
Pro Touch Lightroom Presets
This unique collection of Lightroom presets include 43 different presets for making common adjustments to your photos with just a few clicks, including retouching, adjusting colors, tone, and more. The presets work with JPEG and RAW file formats as well.
The Blogger Collection – Lightroom Presets
This bundle of Lightroom presets includes 20 high quality presets made for bloggers and Instagrammers. The presets are specially optimized to improve your outdoor photoshoots, landscape scenery photos, and fashion photos.
200 Vibrant Overlay Lightroom Presets
This is a collection of Lightroom presets that allows you to quickly add stylish color overlays for your photos. It comes with 200 presets that you can add with just one-click and easily customize to your preference.
Light Leaks V2 – 20 Lightroom Presets
Light leak is a special effect many designers and photographers use to give a unique look to their outdoor photos. This pack of Lightroom presets include 20 different styles of light leaks effects you can use to instantly add the same effect to your photos.
5 Tips for Editing Landscape Photos
Processing landscape photos is quite different from editing other types of photos. Follow these tips to make sure you use the right techniques.
1. Use RAW File Format
RAW is an image file format commonly used in digital cameras but it’s now also available in modern smartphones. Since it doesn’t compress the images to reduce file sizes, RAW is considered to be the best image file format for professional photography.
Especially when it comes to editing landscape photos, use RAW images as it gives you the opportunity to work with the original photograph that hasn’t been affected by compression or quality reduction.
2. Adjust Colors Individually
Photo editing apps like Photoshop and Lightroom allows you to enhance the colors of a photo using different hue and saturation adjustments. When using this tool, try to target different colors individually.
For example, if you’re editing a landscape photo of a lush forest, you may want to target the greens to make the color stand out from the rest.
3. Remove Lens Flare
Lens flare is a common issue most nature and outdoor photographers have to deal with all the time. Thankfully, you can get rid of lens flare using modern photo editing tools without much effort.
Professional photographers use a technique to get rid of lens flare by taking multiple photos of the same scene, including ones while covering the light source. And then combine the images to remove the lens flare. You can learn more about it in this video. Unfortunately, this is not a process you can automate using a preset.
4. Sharpen Images Appropriately
Are you editing a landscape photo for a print magazine? Or processing travel photos for Instagram? Think about where and how you’ll be using your photos as it plays a role in how you need to edit the images.
For example, if you’re processing landscape photos for online use, your images will likely be heavily compressed when it’s uploaded to a platform like Instagram or Facebook. Take this into consideration when sharpening your images. Watch this video for a tutorial on sharpening.
5. Use the Right Filters
You’ll also want to add special effects to your landscape photos, especially if you’re going to be uploading them to social networking sites. Adding filters, toning, and color-enhancing effects are quite normal in landscape photography. However, remember not to overuse filters in a way that destroys the natural quality of your photos.
For more inspiration check out our Lightroom presets for portraits collection.