40 Free B&W Presets for Lightroom — Convert Photos to Monochrome

Adobe Lightroom is an amazing piece of software that can style your images in countless ways, with options to adjust the contrast, tone curve, colors, grain, and so much more!

This article is a showcase of 40+ of the free Lightroom presets and top premium Lightroom black and white presets for converting photos to black and white. You’ll also learn how to make your own presets.

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The Vintage Black and White Lightroom Film Presets are available on Envato Elements

With so options, it can be overwhelming to decide how to style an image. This is one of the many reasons to use Adobe Lightroom presets. Presets are saved settings from talented photographers that you can apply to your images with just one click.

If you want to experiment with a monochromatic , it’s easy to try out Adobe Lightroom presets with your photos to see how you feel about them.


One-Click Black and White Conversions With Premium Presets

Creating black-and-white images is far more than a simple conversion; there is plenty of latitude for how we apply the change from color to monochrome.

Envato Elements has a very collection of Lightroom black and white presets, and in the next section I’ll highlight some of my favorite presets for black and white. They’re all included as part of a subscription to Envato Elements.

Here’s a small sample of the best premium Lightroom black and white presets on Elements.

1. Vintage Black and White Lightroom Film Presets

If you’re a fan of the film look and black and white photography, you’ll love these Adobe Lightroom presets.

These Lightroom film presets must be in your toolkit. The Lightroom black and white preset pack comes with 42 vintage presets that replicate three iconic film looks: Agfa, Ilford, and Kodak.

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Vintage Black and White Lightroom Film Presets

2. Black and White Lightroom Develop Presets

This Lightroom black and white presets pack is one of our most popular items. The Adobe Lightroom presets will look great for landscape and portraits. This Lightroom black and white presets bundle comes with 25 non-destructive presets.

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Black and White Lightroom Develop Presets

3. Lightroom Black and White Presets Bundle

This Lightroom black and white presets pack includes everything you need to turn your into black & white works of art.

The Adobe Lightroom B&W presets pack includes 12 non-destructive presets for Lightroom and 12 Camera Raw presets.

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Lightroom Black and White Presets Bundle

4. Blacktone Lightroom Black and White Presets

The Blacktone pack has ten unique conversions included. One of the best reasons to grab this and try it out is the variety of looks included in it. Work with one of the best Lightroom black and white presets. Apply everything from a contrasty conversion to a matte effect thanks to the different preset files.

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Blacktone Lightroom Black and White Presets

5. Monochromatic Lightroom B&W Presets

The second edition of the Monochromatic preset pack has 20 different ways to style your images. These Lightroom B&W presets range from high-contrast looks to warm black-and-white conversions.

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Monochromatic Lightroom Black and White Presets

6. Creative Lightroom Black and White Presets

Just as the name implies, this set of Lightroom B&W presets is all about getting creative with your conversions. The 18 different presets in this aren’t all for black and white adjustments, but don’t miss out on options like the “” and “Grey Tone” looks included.

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Creative Lightroom Black and White Presets

How to Create Your Own Presets in Lightroom

Saving your own presets in Lightroom is quick and easy. In the screencast below, I’ll show how you can copy the edit settings from one image and use them on future images.

Free Black and White Lightroom Presets

Here are over 40 of the best free black-and-white conversion presets for Adobe Lightroom that we could find. Note that these presets are hosted by their authors. Enjoy!

1. Elegant B&W Free Lightroom Presets

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Click “Download the free preset.”

2. Dark Contrast Black and White Presets

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3. Free High Contrast Preset

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4. B&W Romance Free Lightroom Presets 

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5. Sharp B&W Preset

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6. Instant B&W

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7. Old Soul Free Lightroom Presets

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8. B&W Orange Filter

9. Neopan 400 Free Lightroom Preset

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10. Black and White HDR

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11. Aged Matte B&W

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Click on the “download the preset” link to grab the preset.

12. Sparkling Free Lightroom Presets

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13. Grunge B&W 

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Included in large pack of presets; email address required.

14. Aged B&W Print

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Email address required.

15. Barn B&W Free Lightroom Preset

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16. B&W Infrared

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17. Silhouette

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18. Fuji Acros 100 Black and White Lightroom Presets

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Included in large pack of presets.

19. B&W Nights Free Lightroom Presets

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20. Contrast Preset

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21. Cool B&W

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22. Grey Gray

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23. Naturally B&W

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24. Little Rascals Black and White Lightroom Presets

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Included in pack of 8; Facebook “like” and email address required.

25. Faux Film X

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Included in pack of 10.

26. Mono Fade Free Lightroom Presets

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27. Bold and Black

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Included in large pack; email address required.

28. Eric Kim Monochrome 1600

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Included in pack of 2.

29. Legacy Pro 1600

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30. Phottix B&W Portrait

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Included in pack of 3; email address required.

31. Faded Film Look

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32. Documentary B&W Preset

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33. B&W Landscape

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34. B&W – You Did What? Preset

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Included in pack of 7; email address required.

35. LSL B&W Matte

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Email address required; included in pack of 3.

36. Pictorial B&W

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37. Shuttersweets – Monochromatic

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Included in pack of 20; email address required.

38. Silver Screen Free Lightroom Presets

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39. The Quantum Collection

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Choose the zero bucks option or pay what you want.

40. Fujifilm Neopan

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41. Classic Monochrome Look

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Keep Learning

This article showcases 40+ of the best black and white presets, but there’s no reason to stop here! If you want to learn more about Adobe Lightroom or Lightroom presets, check out the links below.

Envato Elements has an entire section dedicated to Lightroom presets, including colorful presets not included in this . We also recently updated our 100 Free Lightroom Presets article with a huge listing of presets of all types. The Tuts+ Photo & Video section has an extensive library of Lightroom tutorials to level up your Lightroom skills.

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About the Authors

Andrew Childress wrote the text version of this article. This page was updated with contributions from Janila Castañeda, a staff writer with Envato Tuts+. It was by Jackson Couse and republished on 10 August 2022.