Free Black and White Lightroom Presets

Free Lightroom Presets Black and White

Adobe Preset #1 Matte Contrast

• General description:

  The first sample of Lightroom b&w presets is an ideal solution to edit portraits

• Technical description:

  Matte Contrast as one of top Lightroom presets helps both professionals and amateurs to change shadows, clarity or highlights

• Advisable:

  In white and black colors portraits look much better, as monochrome photos show peoples’ characters and individualities more exactly

• Not advisable:

  If there are many bright white spaces in the photo, you must give up the idea of using these Lightroom black and white presets

Adobe Preset #03 Chocolate

• General description:

  Chocolate preset transforms light aspects, improves darks and shadows

• Technical description:

  Significant changes occur in lights, darks, shadows

• Advisable:

  Among all Lightroom presets b&w this one can be reasonably used for city views due to simplicity and severity of black and white photos

• Not advisable:

  We cannot apply it to bright and rich in color images. Red flowers against the green background are seen very distinctly if it is a color photo. Otherwise, in the black and white variant, green and red colors seem greyish

Adobe Preset #05 Old film Hard

• General description:

  Old Film Hard preset improves highlights

• Technical description:

  It changes shadows and blacks and influences highlights

• Advisable:

  Night films are known to be especially attractive in white and black colors. Yellow street lights make a shot scene more vivid

• Not advisable:

  Try to avoid scenes with large «black holes», otherwise dark parts will be almost black if you prefer taking this sample of the best Lightroom presets

Adobe Preset #07 Hard

• General description:

  To improve shadows and lights, choose this variant

• Technical description:

  Changes occur in shadows, highlights, lights

• Advisable:

  During shooting the buildings and city landscapes it gives bricks some pleasant color and enlarges the contrast between different materials underlining the depth and texture of the photograph

• Not advisable:

  For the photos with the sun rising or setting

Adobe Preset #09 Contrast

• General description:

  Sufficient changes in shadows, highlights, clarity

• Technical description:

  Main changes occur in shadows, highlights, clarity

• Advisable:

  Lines, perspective and structures strengthen the simplicity of black and white image which is ideal for architectural pictures

• Not advisable:

  For the photos with big contrast