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Lightroom Presets – Portrait Black & Whites

Aug 6, 2012 | Lightroom, Photoshop | 21 comments

You’ll see there are 4 presets in this download. One of them is an all-purpose B&W effect that I use most of the time. But there’s a few others for outdoors, beaches (which is a little different than the general outdoors one, and indoor portraits). Remember, they’re portrait presets though, so they all have a similar look to them with just a few differences. But the whole point is to show off the people in the portraits so you won’t see a huge difference in each of these like you would the Black & White Landscape Presets.

Here’s a quick before/after of the general-purpose preset (photo courtesy of Fotolia.com).

And it kinda goes without saying that there’s no rule that says you have to use the beach preset on beach photos. It’s just what happened to work best for me when I was creating them, but I’m sure you’ll find every photo looks a little different than the other.

Enjoy!

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21 Comments

  1. flavio
    flavio on September 11, 2022 at 11:52 am

    grazie!

    Reply
  2. Kimberly Depraetere
    Kimberly Depraetere on April 3, 2022 at 3:09 pm

    thanks

    Reply
  3. mgkalafatas
    mgkalafatas on November 3, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Thank you for sharing your presets!

    Reply
    • diana kloskowski
      diana kloskowski on September 24, 2018 at 10:33 am

      Sorry about that Marius, they’re there now 🙂

      Reply
  5. a
    a on November 26, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Just wanted to leave a big thanks for the presets. They look great!

    Reply
  6. Birgit
    Birgit on November 16, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Thank you for sharing your presets!

    Reply
  7. Damian
    Damian on October 23, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    Great job Matt! Thank you.

    Reply
  8. Vivek Sinha
    Vivek Sinha on October 19, 2012 at 6:47 am

    These are amazing presets. Thank you very much Matt 🙂

    Reply
  9. Lori
    Lori on October 10, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    Thanks so much

    Reply
  12. Elin
    Elin on August 7, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    thank you!!

    Reply
  13. Dee
    Dee on August 7, 2012 at 4:01 am

    are these suitable for LR3?

    Reply
  14. Jim Rook
    Jim Rook on August 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    Thanks again Matt.

    Reply
  17. Gerry Walden
    Gerry Walden on August 6, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Thank you so much Matt. Just tried them on a great wedding image – fabulous!

    Reply
  18. Shirley
    Shirley on August 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Thanks so much Matt!

    Reply
  19. Carrie
    Carrie on August 6, 2012 at 8:08 am

    Awesome, thank you!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  20. Girish
    Girish on August 6, 2012 at 5:50 am

    Thanks Matt

    Reply

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