Adobe Lightroom is one of the most useful tools you can use to optimize your photos and graphics. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, it has features suitable for everyone.
What makes Lightroom more powerful is its ability to extend its features with third-party presets. These presets allow you to instantly apply effects, enhance photos, adjust tone and mood, and much with just a few clicks.
Finding amazing Lightroom presets is not difficult. There are plenty available on platforms like Envato Elements. But, for those of you who are on a tight budget and can’t afford premium presets, we made this list of best free Lightroom presets you can download and use to enhance all kinds of photos.
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Just looking for a stylish free Lightroom preset? No problem. Let’s dive into our collection of the best free Lightroom presets of 2020!
What Type of Free Preset Do You Need?
We’ve broken our collection down into different categories, so you can quickly find just the right preset for your project!
- Portrait Lightroom Presets
- Outdoor Lightroom Presets
- Landscape Lightroom Presets
- Wedding Lightroom Presets
- Black & White Lightroom Presets
Portrait Lightroom Presets
Free Lightroom Presets for Portraits
This is a bundle of free Lightroom presets designed to improve portrait photos. It includes 10 different presets featuring various styles of effects, including vintage, black and white, toning, and more.
Vogue – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
Vogue is a stylish free Lightroom preset designed for optimizing fashion and lifestyle photos. The preset is fully compatible with both desktop and mobile versions of the Lightroom app.
Free Retro Style Lightroom Preset
Instantly give a cool retro look and feel to your photos using this creative free Lightroom preset. This effect works well with outdoor portrait and landscape photos.
Vintage Vixen – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset can be used to enhance and optimize your selfies and portraits. It’s especially more suitable for improving photos for social media.
Contrast Darks – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset
As the name suggests, this preset optimizes the contrast of your portrait photos to highlight the colors and brighten up the overall look. It’s ideal for optimizing outdoor portrait photos.
Hollywood – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset
This free preset allows you to enhance your portrait photos by giving them a Hollywood look. Basically, your portraits will look like a scene from a movie after using this preset.
Lips of Wine – Free Portrait Lightroom Preset
Another great free Lightroom presets that’s most suitable for improving outdoor photos. The preset adds a warm color toning effect to your photos make them look more attractive.
Fantasy – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset will instantly make your ordinary portrait photos look more like a scene from a fantasy movie. It features a professional color toning effect that gives photos a fantasy-like look and feel. The preset works with both desktop and mobile Lightroom apps as well.
Orange And Teal – Free Lightroom Preset
Another professional Lightroom preset that allows you to easily enhance the colors of your photos to make them look more vibrant and beautiful. This preset is free to download and use with your personal projects.
Vibrant – Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
If you’re looking for a professional Lightroom preset to enhance our portrait photos for social media, this free Lightroom preset will come in handy. It will allow you to easily optimize all kinds of portrait photos, including indoor, outdoor, and fashion photos.
Night Life – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
You can use this free Lightroom preset to optimize your portraits and landscape photos taken during night time. The preset will help enhance photos taken in low-light conditions while adding a warm color tone.
Film Look Free Lightroom Presets
Film look is a set of free Lightroom presets that allows you to apply a unique effect to your photos to make them look more attractive. It includes 3 different effects that are compatible with Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw.
20 Free Glowing Summer Lightroom Presets
This bundle of Lightroom presets includes 20 different effects for giving a stylish summer-like look and feel to your photos. All of the effects work with both JPEG and RAW file formats.
Free Lomo Effect Lightroom Presets
If you’re looking for a effect to make your photos more bright and vibrant with colors, this Lightroom preset will come in handy. The bundle includes 20 different effects with various styles. It’s perfect for portraits and landscape photos.
30 Free Duotone Lightroom Presets
The duotone effect is quite useful in giving your ordinary photos a more artistic look. This bundle comes with 30 different Lightroom presets with different styles of duotone effects you can use to enhance all kinds of photos.
Moody – Free Lightroom Preset
This is a unique low contrast Lightroom preset that allows you to instantly optimize the tone and mood of your photos with a matte effect. The effect is perfect for outdoor portrait photos.
20 Free Matte Lightroom Presets
A collection of 20 different Lightroom presets featuring matte color effects. These Lightroom presets can be used to improve your portrait photos, including wedding photography.
Outdoor Lightroom Presets
Ektar 100 – Free Outdoor Lightroom Preset
This preset is perfect for optimizing the colors of your outdoor photos. It enhances saturation and temperature to make photos look more colorful while giving a film look.
Old Gloomy Film – Free Outdoor Lightroom Preset
Give your outdoor photos an old-school vintage film look and feel using this free preset. It features a vintage effect that mimics the look of old lomo cameras.
Scenic Color – Free Outdoor Lightroom Preset
This free preset will come in handy for brightening up those outdoor photos you take under gloomy light conditions. The preset can be easily adjusted to your preference as well.
Free Outdoor Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset is perfect for making your photos look more colorful and vibrant. The effect enhances colors to give a summer-like feel and you can easily customize it to your preference as well. The preset works with Lightroom 4 and higher.
FilmStreet – Free Outdoor Lightroom Presets
While this set of Lightroom presets are designed for night time photography, they are also perfect for improving outdoor and landscape photos as well, especially cityscape photos.
Bali – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
This amazing free Lightroom preset is designed inspired by the warm and beautiful beaches of Bali. It is fully optimized to enhance the colors and the contrast of your travel photos.
Free Vibrant Colors HDR Lightroom Preset
This is a premium quality Lightroom preset that allows you to give an HDR look and feel to your ordinary photos. The preset is easily customizable and works with most outdoor landscape photos.
Free Beach Lightroom Presets
This Lightroom preset is specially designed for optimizing and enhancing your beach photography. They will also work well with landscape photos and outdoor travel photos taken in bright light conditions.
Popper – Free Lightroom Preset & Action
Popper is a Lightroom preset you can use to optimize your portrait and landscape photos taken in outdoor light conditions. It includes both a Lightroom preset and a Photoshop action.
NY Skyline – Free Outdoor Lightroom Presets
Improve your night-time outdoor photos using this free Lightroom preset. It comes with an easily editable effect you can customize to match different types of landscape photos.
Free Outdoor Portrait Effect Lightroom Presets
This is a collection of Lightroom presets featuring various kinds of effects you can use with your outdoor portrait photos. The bundle comes with 30 different presets with various effects.
Landscape Lightroom Presets
Adventure – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
This preset allows you to give a clean and washed-out look to your landscape photos. It gives a moody look to your photos by suppressing colors.
Gypsy Soul – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
A must-have Lightroom preset for travel photographers. This preset lets you apply a colorful effect to give a tropical look to your landscape photos.
Guava Jelly – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
Add a stylish pastel color effect to give a nostalgic and retro feel to your landscape photos using this free Lightroom preset.
Downtown Alley – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
Another professional free Lightroom presets most suitable for enhancing outdoor landscape and cityscape photos.
Moscow – Travel Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset is designed to optimize travel and outdoor photos. The preset is perfect for enhancing photos for Instagram and social media. You can also adjust the effect to your preference.
Landscape Photography Free Lightroom Preset
Another free Lightroom preset for enhancing your landscape photos. It will enhance colors and shapen the photos to make more professional. The preset works with Lightroom 4 and higher.
Vast Landscapes – Free Lightroom Preset
This landscape Lightroom preset is perfect for optimizing your nature, outdoor, and landscape photos. The preset features color optimization effects to give your photos a professional look.
Dawning – Free Landscape Lightroom Preset
Dawning is a free Lightroom preset you can use to enhance outdoor landscape photos. The preset is ideal for photos taken under natural sunlight and it helps enhance saturation as well.
Cinematic Landscape Lightroom Preset
Add a creative cinematic effect to your landscape photos using this free Lightroom preset. The free preset can be easily adjusted to your preference as well.
Free Matte Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset is designed for improving your outdoor landscape photos. It features a light matte color effect. The preset works with Lightroom 4 or higher.
Free Cinema Lightroom Preset
Another Lightroom preset for optimizing the tone and mood of your landscape photos. This preset features a stylish film-inspired effect.
Free Light Leak Lightroom Preset
Adding light leaks to outdoor landscape photos can instantly make your photos more attractive. Use this free Lightroom preset to add light leaks without a hassle.
Free Color Pop Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset allows you to adjust the brightness and colors of your photos to make it look more vibrant and attractive. It’s most suitable for photos taken in low light and weather conditions.
Wedding Lightroom Presets
Retro Wedding – Free Wedding Lightroom Preset
A creative Lightroom preset that’s ideal for giving an old-school and vintage look to your wedding photos. The sepia look of this preset is fully customizable as well.
Caramel Wedding – Free Lightroom Preset
This beautiful free Lightroom preset is perfect for improving your wedding and fashion photos. The effect is easily adjustable to your preference and it’s also available in Photoshop action format.
Anniversary – Free Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
Optimizing your various wedding and anniversary photos will get so much easier with this professional and free Lightroom preset. This preset optimizes the contrast and adds beautiful color tones to your photos to make them look even more professional.
Summer Wedding – Free Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset is perfect for enhancing your wedding photos taken in outdoors. The preset allows you to optimize color and contrast as the effect can be easily customized to your preference.
Pastel Free Wedding Lightroom Preset
Adding pastel color tones is a popular trend in wedding photography. This Lightroom preset features an easily customizable effect you can use to add color tones and various adjustments to your wedding photos.
Free Wedding Photography Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset includes a beautiful effect that will give a dreamy look and feel to your wedding photos. It also includes all the necessary adjustments and improvements for enhancing the mood of the photos as well.
The Bouquet – Free Wedding Lightroom Preset
The Bouquet is a free Lightroom preset specially designed for enhancing wedding photos. This preset will work better with photos taken outdoors and in natural light conditions.
Free Lightroom Preset Elegant Wedding
Another free Lightroom preset you can use to instantly adjust the lighting and colors of your wedding photos taken in low light conditions.
Cold Wind – Free Wedding Lightroom Preset
Cold Wind is a free Lightroom preset designed to optimize the contrast and the toning of your wedding photos to make them more vibrant and attractive.
Sweet Tones Free Lightroom Presets
This is a collection of free Lightroom presets that features matte color effects for improving all kinds of portrait and landscape photos, especially including wedding photos. These presets work with both the Lightroom desktop and mobile apps as well.
Black and White Lightroom Presets
B&W Infrared – Free Black & White Lightroom Preset
This free preset allows you to give the popular black and white infrared look to your ordinary photos. The preset lets you create a deep toning effect to make your B&W photography stand out.
Detailed Matte – Free Black & White Lightroom Preset
This is unique Lightroom preset that combines the monochromatic look with the matte effect to create a very attractive look for abstract photos. The preset is easily customizable as well.
Silver Surfer – Free B&W Lightroom Preset
This free black and white Lightroom presets works well with all types of photos, including outdoor, portraits, and landscape photos.
Free High Contrast Black & White Lightroom Preset
Not everyone can create a perfect black and white effect. It takes more work than just applying a greyscale filter. But with this Lightroom preset, you’ll be able to apply an authentic B&W effect without an effort.
B&W Berkeley – Vintage Lightroom Preset
This is a free Lightroom preset that lets you create a vintage-themed black and white effect to give an old-school look and feel to your photos.
Black & White HDR Lightroom Preset
Another high-quality black and white Lightroom preset. This preset will not only transform your photos into work of art with a B&W effect but it will also add a stylish HDR effect to make the photo look more attractive.
Free Monochrome Lightroom Preset
This free Lightroom preset creates a professional black and white effect by optimizing the contrast of your images. The effect will work with most portrait and landscape photos.
Lightroom Presets
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