You don’t have to be a pro photographer or a graphic designer to optimize and enhance your portrait photos. With the right Adobe Lightroom preset for portraits, you can apply stunning effects, all by yourself.

In this collection, we feature the best Lightroom presets available for quickly optimizing your portrait photos, selfies, wedding photos, and family photos.

Using these Lightroom presets for portraits, you can enhance your photos like a pro by applying effects instantly (and even customize them to your preference with ease). And don’t forget to read through our tips for using presets on portrait photos for helpful advice on how to integrate them into your workflow!

Heliodor – Lightroom Presets for Portraits

Make your portraits shine bright with more colors and beautiful tones using this Lightroom presets pack. It comes with 13 different presets for you to experiment with. Each effect can be easily adjusted to match your photos. And they work with just one click.

Blue Topaz – Cool Tone Lightroom Presets

This Lightroom preset pack will make your photos look cooler than ever with its stylish blue color tone. The preset features an easily editable effect with a non-destructive workflow. You can use the effect on smartphone photos as well.

Simple Way – Elegant Lightroom Presets for Portraits

This bundle includes a collection of professional presets that create a very elegant look for portrait photos. It includes a subtle moody color tone that transforms your portraits into picks from a fashion magazine photoshoot.

Lemon – Color Tone Portrait Presets for Lightroom

If you want to make your portrait photos stand out from the crowd, this Lightroom preset is a must-have for you. It features a unique yellow color-themed effect that gives a pop art-style look to your photos. There are 4 presets in this bundle.

Escape – Free Lightroom Preset for Portraits

This is a free Lightroom preset you can use to enhance your portrait photos with a warm and vibrant color tone. It works perfectly for outdoor photos, especially for photos taken in natural light.

10 Rustic Earthy Lightroom Presets

This pack includes high-quality Lightroom presets designed to enhance your photos with rustic, earthy effects. Ideal for travel, lifestyle, and fashion bloggers, these presets can help you achieve a consistent, beautiful aesthetic for your Instagram feed, blog, or portfolio. Supported formats include DNG, TIFF, and JPEG.

15 Pastel Dreams Lightroom Presets

A remarkable collection of Lightroom presets that makes taking your photo aesthetics to the next level effortless. With just one click, these clean, professional presets transform digital portraits into captivating visuals.

Cinematic Lightroom Portrait Presets

Explore the artistic potential of your photographs with this Lightroom preset pack. Containing 15 unique premium presets, you can effortlessly transform your portraits to render a dramatic, movie-like quality.

Soft Warm Lightroom Presets for Portraits

A collection of Lightroom presets perfect for enhancing bloggers, travel, lifestyle, and portrait photography. This package includes seven high-quality professional presets in both DNG and XMP formats, with these warm, soft effects.

Portrait LUTs And Presets for Lightroom

This collection is perfect for travel vloggers, bloggers, and influencers aiming to enhance their images. The package includes LUTs compatible with various editing software, DNG preset files for the Lightroom mobile app, and XMP preset files for Lightroom Desktop and Photoshop CC.

Fitness Portrait Lightroom Presets

These Lightroom presets are ideal for enhancing fitness portrait photos. Crafted for versatility, these presets can significantly improve your images with just a single click, though adjustments can still be made for individual photos. The pack includes 10 different effects.

20 Stay Gold Lightroom Presets and LUTs

Recommended for travel bloggers and lifestyle influencers, these Lightroom presets provide a golden finish to your photos. They are ideal for defining a luxurious and indulgent visual aesthetic. There are 20 different effects included in this pack.

10 Rose Gold Lightroom Presets

This presets pack is perfect for enhancing the quality of various types of photos, including travel, fashion, or lifestyle. Ideal for creating a cohesive aesthetic Instagram feed, blog, or portfolio, these presets are high quality, professional, and versatile.

10 VSCO Film Lightroom Presets

A quick and easy way to add professional quality edits to your photos, these Lightroom presets are perfect for enhancing travel, lifestyle, and fashion images. They provide an array of modern colors and unique styles to instantly lift your portrait photography.

Warmhy Lite Lightroom Presets for Portraits

Add subtle effects to enhance your digital photography with these Lightroom presets. Ideal for bloggers, travel, lifestyle, and portrait images, this high-quality package includes 7 professional presets in both DNG and XMP formats.

Tanzanite – Bright Color Lightroom Presets for Portraits

Your portraits and selfies will look more professional when you enhance them with this Lightroom presets pack. There are 13 presets in this bundle that are compatible with Lightroom desktop, mobile, and CameraRAW.

Asian Cinema – Lightroom Presets & PS Actions

If you’ve ever wanted to make your photos look like a scene from an Asian film, this Lightroom presets pack is for you. It includes 5 beautiful cinematic effects that are available in both Lightoom and Photoshop action formats.

New Tone – Lightroom Presets for Portraits

The subtle and natural effects used in these Lightroom presets will help make your photos look more professional. There are 4 presets included in this pack that are ideal for modern lifestyle and fashion photography.

Just Love – Portrait Photo Presets for Lightroom

Turn your romantic portrait photos into classic masterpieces with this Lightroom presets pack. It includes multiple presets that allow you to give a classic nostalgic vibe to your photos.

Fuji 100 – Free Lightroom Preset for Portraits

Grab this free preset to make your portrait photos look more colorful and vibrant. It beautify photos with its bright tone inspired by classic film cameras, specifically the Fuji 100 camera.

Badalona – Portrait Lightroom Presets

If you’re looking for a moody effect to turn your portrait photos into professional works of art, this preset pack is perfect for you. It includes 10 different Lightroom presets for giving your portrait photos a dark and moody look.

Sweet Tones Portrait Lightroom Presets

Add a beautiful and sweet pink color tone to your portraits to make them look more stylish with this pack of Lightroom presets. These work with both desktop and mobile versions of Lightroom. Even if you have the mobile app on your phone, you can use theme presets with ease. The pack comes with 11 different presets.

Light & Airy Portrait Lightroom Presets

Make your photos look brighter and more natural using these Lightroom presets. Light and airy presets are designed to optimize the lighting conditions of portrait photos and add a more natural look and feel. This bundle comes with 30 different presets you can use with various portrait photos, especially for outdoor photos.

Dark & Moody Portrait Lightroom Presets

Not a fan of bright and light photos? Then these presets are perfect for you. The bundle includes 32 unique Lightroom presets that allow you to add a dark color tone and adjust the brightness to create a moody look in your photos. These presets are compatible with Lightroom 4 and higher as well as Classic and mobile versions.

Vibrant Portrait Lightroom Presets

If you want to make your photos and selfies look more vibrant with bright colors, this pack of Lightroom presets will come in handy. It includes 11 presets designed to intensify colors and make your photos more beautiful than they ever were. The presets work with Lightroom desktop and mobile apps.

Free Portrait Lightroom Presets

With this free Lightroom preset, you can add a dark and gritty look and feel to your portrait photos. The preset can be easily customized to your preference and it works with Lightroom 4 and all the way up to Lightroom CC.

Calvia – Luxury Lightroom Presets for Portraits

With this Lightroom preset pack, you can add a high-end look to your photos that you normally see in fashion magazines and photoshoots. The effects work with just one click and you can adjust them to your preference to fit different styles of portraits.

Cyberpunk Lightroom Presets for Portraits

Want to give your photos a futuristic look and feel? Then be sure to download this preset. There are 10 different Lightroom presets in this pack featuring cyberpunk-themed effects and filters. They are perfect for enhancing photos for magazines and posters.

Rikutona – Elegant Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets

This collection of Lightroom presets is ideal for improving fashion photoshoots as well as optimizing your portraits for social media. It comes with 10 presets that are compatible with both Lightroom desktop and mobile apps.

Sandstorm – Free Lightroom Portrait Preset

A brilliant free Lightroom preset for applying a subtly enhancing effect to your photos. This preset will allow you to add a moody filter to make your portraits look more attractive and memorable.

Modern Portrait Lightroom Presets

This is a bundle of Lightroom presets for improving portrait photos while giving them a brighter and modern look. They are designed for enhancing both selfies and professional photos. It includes 15 different presets that are compatible with Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw.

8 Classic Ports Film Look Lightroom Presets

Want to give your photos a classic film-like look and feel? Then this collection of Lightroom presets are perfect for you. The pack comes with 8 unique Lightroom presets featuring effects inspired by Fujifilm stocks. You can easily customize the effect to fit your own photos as well.

7 Fashion Vibe Lightroom Presets for Portraits

With this collection of Lightroom presets you’ll be able to give a professional look to your portrait photos that makes them look like a page out of a fashion magazine. These presets are designed to optimized fashion photography. It includes 7 presets for both mobile and desktop versions of the app.

Influencers Lightroom Portrait Presets

If you’re improving portrait photos for social media influencers, this collection of Lightroom presets is a must-have. This bundle features 15 different presets designed for enhancing portraits shot in outdoor lighting conditions. The presets can be customized to your preference as well.

Color Pop – Free Lightroom Preset for Portraits

This is a free Lightroom preset you can use to enhance your portrait photos by optimizing the colors. It’s perfect for improving photos shot in outdoor and low-light conditions.

20 Lifestyle Lightroom LUTs Pack

This bundle comes with 20 different color grading LUTs you can use in Lightroom to instantly enhance your lifestyle portrait photos. These LUTs will work with many other photo editing and video editing apps as well.

20 Victorian Lightroom Presets & LUTs

Give your portrait photos a classic Victorian-era look and feel with these Lightroom presets. This bundle comes with 20 different presets inspired by different genres and styles including Dickens, Grisette, Royal, and Gleaner.

50 Cinematic Film Lightroom LUTs Pack

With this massive bundle of Lightroom LUTs, you can instantly enhance all kinds of portrait photos to look amazing. You can easily adjust and customize the effects to your preference as well.

6 Gorgeous Look Lightroom Presets + Mobile

Give your smartphone selfies and portraits a professional look and feel using this set of premium Lightroom presets. It features 6 unique presets crafted by a professional and with adjustable settings. You can use them in Lightroom desktop and mobile apps.

Essential Portraits Lightroom Presets

This collection of Lightroom presets is designed as a starter kit for photographers. It features 20 different presets you can use to enhance different aspects of your portrait photography. The presets are compatible with PSD, RAW, JPG, and many other file formats.

6 Catchy Portrait Lightroom Presets

Another great set of Lightroom presets for adding a special touch to your portrait photos. This pack includes 6 presets with various effects. They are ideal for making your selfies stand out from the crowd on social media platforms.

39 Sports HDR Portrait Lightroom Presets

Add a gritty look to your sports and gym portrait photos using this collection of Lightroom presets. This pack includes 39 different presets that allow you to add an HDR look to your sports photos.

Free Bold Black & White Lightroom Preset

This beautiful and free Lightroom preset allows you to create an authentic black and white effect to give a classic look to your portraits. The preset is easy to use and you can customize the effect as well.

10 Glamour Pro Lightroom Presets

The presets in this pack are most suitable for enhancing lifestyle and fashion portrait photos. They are designed to make your photos look like they were taken from a magazine photoshoot. The presets can be applied with just one click and customize to your preference.

12 Pro Matte VSCO Lightroom Presets

If you’re looking for a preset to improve your photos for Instagram and social media, this bundle will come in handy. It features 12 different presets made inspired by the popular photography app, VSCO. The presets feature matte-style effects with various faded looks.

50 Sweet Pink Lightroom Presets

Add a stylish feminine pink look to your portrait photos using this big bundle of Lightroom presets. It includes 50 different effects that feature sweet pink and pastel color effects that are perfect for enhancing selfies and portraits for social media.

Portrait Fashion Lightroom Presets

Check out this modern collection of 16 high-quality Lightroom presets purpose-built for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle pictures. A great option if you are looking to make your Instagram feed scroll-worthy!

50+ Lightroom Presets

If you are wanting an extensive collection of Lightroom presets that work well with virtually any kind of picture, you just can’t go wrong with this bundle of 80 plus presets for you to enjoy. It has everything you need to enhance your shots.

Aurum – Portrait Lightroom Presets

Give subtle, warm toning to your images with the help of Aurum, a collection of Lightroom presets consisting of gold tones to liven up your photography. Undoubtedly, one of the best portrait Lightroom presets collection on our list!

50 Sweet Pink Lightroom Presets

Wanting to get your photos noticed and appreciated? This collection of 10 amazing Lightroom presets will help you. The best part is that this bundle is available for free on Creative Tacos. Get your hands on it now!

30 Free Portrait Lightroom Presets

Great on all types of portraits, these Lightroom presets work on correcting the colors, softening the tones, sharpening the details, and enhancing the overall shot. Give a flawless finish to your pictures using this collection of 30 free portrait Lightroom presets!

Natural Beauty – Free Lightroom Preset

This is a free Lightroom preset that features a vintage-style effect. It also helps enhance your portraits with color balancing and adjusting tones as well. You can apply it to your photos with just one click.

Faded HDR Effect LightRoom Preset

Enhancing your portrait photos to make them stand out takes a lot of work and time. With this professional Lightroom preset you can easily add a creative faded HDR effect to your photos with just a few clicks. It’ll make your wedding and lifestyle photography look even more amazing.

Indoor Fashion Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

Easily make your indoor portrait and smartphone selfies look more professional with this bundle of Lightroom presets. It comes with 11 different presets that allows you to instantly optimize photos and add various effects with just a single click.

Stylish Portrait Pro Lightroom Preset

This portrait Lightroom preset is specially crafted to enhance the tone and mood of portrait photos and make them look more professional. The preset is easily customizable and it works great with both outdoor and indoor photos.

Selfie Filters Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets

If you’re looking for a set of filters to optimize your smartphone selfies to achieve the perfect look, this Lightroom preset is perfect for you. It includes multiple filters and effects for optimizing your selfies to get more Likes and comments on social media.

Free Lightroom Presets for Portraits

This is a bundle of 10 unique Lightroom presets made for optimizing portrait photos. The presets are easily customizable and they work with JPG and RAW image formats. The pack includes various effects for achieving different looks as well.

FREE Portrait Photography Lightroom Preset

Another free and professional Lightroom preset that’s perfect for improving your portrait photos. This preset features adjustments for improving exposure and filters for adding tone and mood to your photos.

Pastel Colors Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets

Adding a beautiful pastel color filter can make many different kinds of photos look even more beautiful. Especially when improving wedding and newborn photos, pastel color filters are a must-have. This pack of Lightroom presets is made specifically for that job.

Natural Light Portrait – Lightroom Presets

The photos you take in natural light always needs proper enhancements as they often look different from each other due to changes in contrast and lighting. This collection of Lightroom presets aims to help you fix those photos with easy adjustment and toning effects.

Film Effect Lightroom Presets For Portraits

Want to make your portraits look like a scene from a Hollywood film? Then grab this set of Lightroom presets that features various effects and filters inspired by the cinema. It includes 11 presets that works with Photoshop and Lightroom.

Instagram Portrait Lightroom Presets

This bundle of Lightroom presets comes with a set of effects inspired by Instagram filters. You can use these to enhance your portrait photos before you upload them to social media sites.

Free Retouching Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

This is a set of free Lightroom presets specially crafted for retouching portrait photos. These presets will help you do quick adjustments to your portraits to enhance color, tone, and brightness without an effort.

Free Studio Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

Want to make your portrait photos look like they were shot in a professional studio? Then use these Lightroom presets to give them that perfect studio look and feel. They are free to download and use.

Minimalist Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets

Another collection of modern Lightroom presets featuring a unique effect that gives your photos a minimalist look and feel. It includes multiple presets that comes with a low-contrast toning effect that adds a unique look to portraits.

California Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Presets

Featuring 11 different effects, this bundle of Lightroom presets will let you add beautiful summer-like warm color enhancements to your portrait photos. These presets will work better with outdoor portrait photos.

Vogue Lifestyle Lightroom Presets Pack

Want to make your lifestyle photos look like photos from a Vogue cover shoot? This set of high-quality Lightroom presets will help you achieve that goal. It includes 11 presets that can be applied with a single click.

Fashion Magazine Lightroom Presets

Another collection of creative Lightroom presets made specifically for enhancing fashion photoshoots. The bundle includes many different presets that works with both Lightroom desktop and mobile apps.

UltraFaded – Portrait Lightroom Presets

This is a collection of Lightroom presets for portraits that are designed to optimize photos by bringing out the shadow details in photos to give them a faded vintage look. This bundle includes 30 different presets you can use with different types of portrait photos.

Instant Hipster – Portrait Lightroom Presets

Give your photos a colorful hipster-style look with just a few clicks using these Lightroom presets. This bundle comes with 40 retro-themed fadeable presets for giving a modern-vintage look to your portrait photos. All of the presets are easily adjustable as well.

Free Fantasy Mobile & Desktop Lightroom Preset

This free Lightroom preset will allow you to add a colorful fantasy vibe to your portrait photos. It’s most suitable for improving portraits shot in outdoor environments.

Free Nostalgia Effect Mobile Lightroom Preset

Add a stylish nostalgic effect to your portraits using this great free Lightroom preset. It’s ideal for enhancing photos for social media. The preset works with both RAW and JPG image file formats as well.

The Film – Portrait Lightroom Presets

The presets in this pack are specially optimized to enhance your portrait photos by giving them a retro film look. It comes with 10 different presets that works with Lightroom 4 or higher. The presets works with both JPEG and RAW file formats.

Sunflower – Portrait Lightroom Presets

If you take a lot of outdoor portrait photos, this bundle of Lightroom presets will come in handy. It includes 6 unique presets made for improving your portrait photos by adding a little bit of sunshine and adjusting tone.

Prestalgia – 25 Retro Lightroom Presets

This is a collection of retro-themed Lightroom presets that will allow you to add a unique nostalgic effect to your wedding portraits and outdoor portraits. It includes 25 fadeable color grading presets that are also fully customizable to your preference.

Wedding Pro – Portrait Lightroom Presets

This bundle comes with 10 premium quality Lightroom presets crafted by professionals. These presets are specially made for enhancing wedding portraits and outdoor photos. The effects are easily customizable as well.

Moody – Portrait Lightroom Presets

The Lightroom presets in this bundle are designed for improving your outdoor portrait photos. It comes with 18 presets that will add a warm moody effect to your photos while also improving colors and adjusting tone.

Vintage Film – Portrait Lightroom Presets

Give your photos a vintage film look using this collection of Lightroom presets. This bundle includes a total of 64 presets that have been divided into Agfacolor and Kodachrome presets. Each group contains effects inspired by 40s, 50s, and 60s films.

Cinematic – Portrait Lightroom Presets

The gorgeous Lightroom presets in this bundle comes with a set of unique effects that are made to give stylish effects to your portrait photos to make them look like scenes out of movies. It includes 20 different presets.

121 Duotone Lightroom Profiles

This is a massive collection of Lightroom profile presets that allows you to give a stylish duotone effect to your photos with just a couple of clicks. It includes 121 different presets that works with Lightroom CC, including iOS and Android versions of the app.

Summer Lightroom Presets

Give all your portrait photos that warm summer look using this bundle of Lightroom presets. This collection includes 30 unique presets for instantly adjusting the tone and contrast of your portraits while giving them a vibrant summer feel. These presets are perfect for natural light, beach, and outdoor photography.

14 Pink Lightroom Presets and LUTs

This is a must-have bundle of Lightroom presets for Instagram users and bloggers. This pack comes with 14 different pink-themed presets in 5 variations making a total of 70 presets. They are perfect for giving an extra feminine and attractive look to your portrait photos before posting them on social media.

Deeptone Lightroom Presets

Adjust the toning of your portraits using various styles with this set of Lightroom presets. It includes 8 different presets for adjusting the toning of portrait photos based on cold, matte, moss, natural, and a few other toning styles.

UltraPOP Lightroom Presets

If you’re a fan of fun and vibrant colors, this set of Lightroom presets are for you. This bundle comes with 20 different presets that will help you bring out the true colors of your portraits and street photos to make the colors POP.

90 Basic Adjustments Lightroom Presets

With the help of the Lightroom presets in this bundle, you’ll be able to make basic adjustments to your portrait photos in just a few seconds. It includes more than 90 different presets for adjusting everything from color, contrast, tone, enhancing detail, and much more. This bundle will help you save hours of your valuable time otherwise spent on making photo adjustments one by one.

Modern Portrait Lightroom Presets

Optimizing portrait photos with color adjustments, applying filters before uploading photos to social media, and even adding an extra bit of professionalism to your photography will be easy with this bundle of Lightroom presets. It comes with 30 different non-destructible Lightroom presets that you can use with both RAW and JPG images.

Flowerage Portrait Presets for Lightroom & ACR

This is a collection of Lightroom presets specially designed for outdoor and natural light portrait photos. It comes with a set of presets for adding more color to bring out the beauty in your portrait photos, especially the ones with lots of green grass and flowers. It includes 24 different presets that are also fully customizable to your preference.

Retouch Pro Lightroom Presets

Retouching and enhancing your portrait photos will be so much easier when you have this bundle of Lightroom presets. It comes with 15 professional presets for easily retouching portraits to properly optimize them in an instant. These presets work with both JPEGs and RAW images and are compatible with Lightroom 4 and above.

20 Monochromatic Lightroom Presets

If you’re struggling to achieve the perfect monochrome effect to give a unique look to your portrait photos, this bundle of Lightroom presets will come in handy. This set includes 20 unique Lightroom presets for achieving different styles of monochrome effects, including matte B&W, toned B&W, high contrast B&W, and more.

Lilac Toning Lightroom Presets

Tone your portraits like a pro using this bundle of Lightroom presets. It includes 7 base presets and 15 variations of the presets for using them with different types of portrait photos. These presets will work with all types of portraits, including outdoor, fashion, street, and more.

Portochrome Lightroom Presets

This bundle comes with a set of unique Lightroom presets for giving your photos a classic chromatic effect with a film tone, like the ones you see in old photographs. It includes 5 base presets and 33 different preset variations for easily achieving the perfect look for your portrait photos.

Fashion Lightroom Presets

This is a pack of Lightroom presets made for fashion photography. Yet they will also work well with your other portraits to give them a professional look. It includes 23 non-destructive Lightroom presets for instantly enhancing your portrait photos.

100 Premium Lightroom Presets

A massive bundle of 100 different Lightroom presets. With this pack, you can do everything from enhancing photos to making simple adjustments, fixing color, toning, and much more with just a few clicks. This is a must-have bundle for professional photographers, bloggers, and for social media users.

Porcelain B&W Lightroom Presets

This bundle comes with 8 premium Lightroom presets that allows you to give your portraits a smooth porcelain-like effect. These presets are ideal for studio photography and natural light portrait photos.

Aurum Portrait Lightroom Presets

This is a collection of Lightroom presets you can use to optimize your portraits, fashion photos, and fine art-style photos. The presets will work well with studio photos and natural light photos. It comes with 4 unique presets and 9 different variations of those effects.

Night Photo Lightroom Presets

Taking great portrait photos during night time and low-light is one of the most difficult parts of photography. This bundle of presets will offer a solution to that problem. This collection includes 20 different Lightroom presets for quickly enhancing nighttime portrait photos and street photography with just one-click.

Tangerine Portrait Presets for Lightroom & ACR

Give your photos a unique tangerine and gold look using these Lightroom presets. This set includes 20 different presets for adjusting the tone of your photos and give them a stylish tangerine matte feel. The pack also comes with Photoshop action presets as well.

Folklore Lightroom Presets

A set of toning Lightroom presets inspired by folk-themed colors and effects. These presets will help you achieve a unique and attractive look in your portrait photos, especially outdoor photos. It includes 7 different presets you can use with different types of portraits.

Blacktone Black & White Lightroom Presets

Create the perfect black and white effect using this bundle of Lightroom presets. This pack includes 10 premium presets you can use to instantly create a professional black and white effect and make your portrait photos stand out from the crowd. They will work well with both studio and outdoor photography.

Colour Matte Lightroom Presets Vol. 1

This is a collection of Lightroom presets made for photographers and graphic designers. It includes a set of 16 presets for quickly retouching photos and adjusting the toning to give your portraits a unique matte feel.

Color Mix Lightroom Presets Vol. 2

The presets in this pack will help you to highlight specific colors in your portrait photos to create uncommon effects. It comes with 22 Lightroom presets with different styles and effects to use with various types of photos.

I’m Blogger – 50 Lightroom Presets

This is a special bundle of Lightroom presets made for graphic designers, bloggers, and social media users. It comes with 50 different Lightroom presets for making quick adjustments to your fashion, outdoor, travel, portrait, and many other types of photos with just a few clicks.

4 Tips for Using Presets on Portrait Photos

Whether you’re editing photos from a photoshoot or enhancing photos for social media, using Lightroom presets can greatly speed up your workflow. Follow these tips to use presets more efficiently.

1. Use the Right Preset

There are many different kinds of Lightroom presets you can use to apply different effects, filters, and enhancements. For example, there are presets especially optimized for retouching skin and then there presets with filters for photos shot in outdoor lighting conditions.

The key to enhancing portrait photos using Lightroom presets is to pick the right preset for your photos and what you want to achieve. Don’t make the mistake of downloading a single preset pack and applying it to every portrait photo you have. Experiment with different presets.

2. Adjust to Perfection

A great thing about using Lightroom presets is that they are fully customizable. This means you can easily edit any preset you use to adjust the effect to match the photograph.

If a preset adds too much brightness to your photos, you can use the adjustments panel to tone it down. If you need to change the colors of a filter you can do that using adjustment tools as well.

3. Enhance Photos with Exposure

When taking photos in different lighting conditions it’s common to end up with photos that look underexposed and dark. Lightroom’s exposure tool makes it super easy to fix these photos and brighten them up. However, it takes a little bit of work to achieve the perfect look.

There are also presets especially made for fixing these lighting issues in photos. Find a few of those presets and add them to your collection.

4. Save Your Personalized Presets

If you managed to come up with a sweet new effect while using presets and experimenting with the adjustment tools, you can save it as a preset and use it on other photos later.

All you have to do to save your adjustments as a preset is to go to the Presets panel in Lightroom and click on the Plus icon (+) and select Create Preset. Then select all the adjustments you want to save in the preset, give your new preset a name, and click on the Create button.

Looking for more? Then check out our best Lightroom wedding presets and newborn baby preset collections for more great add-ons.