Transform your portraits quickly and easily to give them colour grading that looks professional and eye-catching, with a selection of our favourite Lightroom presets and LUTs made by Envato professionals.
In this article, we cover a mix of profiles (look-up tables) and presets available from Envato Elements and Envato Market.
Top Editorial Portrait LUTs and Lightroom Presets
50 Editorial Lightroom Presets and LUTs
Featured Lightroom Set From Envato Elements
Enhance your portraits with this huge set of 50 presets and LUTs for Lightroom. Inspired by fashion magazines, they are perfect for most photographs featuring people. The effects are skin-tone protected—an essential when it comes to portraits.
Key Features
The pack includes presets for the various Lightroom versions, plus formats for other Adobe platforms, live streaming LUTs for OBS, and more. There’s a PDF guide included in case you need some help getting started.
- Applications: Lightroom Mobile/Classic, Photoshop, ACR, and more
- File Types: LRTEMPLATE, XML, 3dl, CUBE, LOOK, MGA, XMP
- Requirements: None
- Author: sparklestock
Download and Try
Envato Elements has unlimited downloads for millions of creative stock items with a single subscription, including hundreds of presets and LUTs for Lightroom, plus audio tracks, fonts, graphics, video templates, and more.
More Editorial Portrait Presets for Lightroom
Want to try a few different options? With Envato Elements, you can download as many Lightroom presets and LUTs as you like as part of the subscription. Here are some more great editorial portrait presets available from Elements:
Retouch your portraits in just a few clicks, including colour fix, soften skin, sharpen, and much more.
23 professional Lightroom presets for fashion, editorial, beauty, and lifestyle photographs.
30 non-destructive Lightroom presets that add drama and professionalism to your portrait photographs.
Fashion Magazine Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset
Get professional portrait results quickly and easily with this Lightroom preset pack. Perfect for editorial portraits, weddings, fashion photos, and much more, the pack even includes XMP files for you to use across other Adobe software.
Soft Airy Creamy Portraits
Try these soft and warm preset looks for Lightroom for a rustic but vibrant look to your editorial portraits. The includes nine colour and one black and white preset.
Top Lightroom Presets and LUTs from Envato Market
If you prefer to buy as you go, Envato Market has you covered. Here are some great editorial portrait preset options for Lightroom.
20 Editorial Lightroom Presets & LUTs – $12
20 presets grouped into 4 useful categories—Non-Binary, Nylon, Outdoors, and Rebellious—to give you professional portrait colouring with skin-tone protection. LUTs are included too, so you can use these for video as well as photographs.
26 Kodak Film Presets for Lightroom & Camera Raw – $24
Classic Kodak film-inspired looks in 26 nifty Lightroom presets, with XMP versions included so you can use them in Camera Raw too. They’re non-destructive and easy to use, though an installation help file is included just in case you get stuck.
Black Tone Lightroom Preset – $4
Black Tone is inspired by Instagram to give your portraits a cool black effect without losing all saturation. Files included are four each of XMP, DNG, and LRTEMPLATE.
Fashion Editorial Lightroom Presets For Mobile & Desktop – $4
Download eight Lightroom presets for both mobile and desktop versions. This set is perfect for editorial portraits, particularly fashion-related, as the pack is inspired by popular fashion magazines.
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About This Page
How We Picked
We looked at projects and considered all kinds of variables, including organization, complexity, experience required and overall difficulty, minimum hardware specifications, included versions and options, formats, resolution, file size, dependencies and required plug-ins (if any), language options, software versions supported, style, design, and cost. You can read more about how we select items at How We Pick Items to Feature on Envato Tuts+.
About the Authors
Marie Gardiner wrote this. Jackson Couse edited it and published it.
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