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10 Top Creative LUTs and Lightroom Presets

10 Top Creative LUTs and Lightroom Presets

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LUTs and Presets are great, timesaving ways to colour grade and colour correct your photographs and film footage.  Sometimes it’s fun to go a little further and try something really creative and different; LUTs are perfect for this too, helping you make something both original and imaginative.

Try our ten favourite Creative LUTs and Lightroom Presets from Envato Market and Envato Elements to get you started.

10 Top Creative LUTs and Lightroom Presets

1. 20 Dreamscape Lightroom Presets & LUTs

If you want to get creative with your LUTs then you’ll love this set of whimsical, dreamlike profiles. There are four categories, each with five different options, giving your images a pink and blue wash a bit like infrared.

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20 Dreamscape Lightroom Presets & LUTs

2. 20 Apocalypse Lightroom Presets & LUTs

Add a sombre, creative sci-fi vibe to your photos with this set of 20 apocalypse themed Lightroom presets and LUTs. There are five options in each category: biohazard, plume, ruby and waves.

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20 Apocalypse Lightroom Presets & LUTs

3. 20 Vaporwave Lightroom Presets and LUTs

Vaporwave is a creative preset with a futuristic, brightly coloured look. It works best with cityscapes, lights and neon sighs. There are 20 LUTs included in the set, each in various formats to work across multiple platforms.

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20 Vaporwave Lightroom Presets and LUTs

4. 20 Vaporwave Neon Lightroom Presets & LUTs

Like it’s predecessor, Vaporwave Neon has a futuristic feel, but this set is brighter and focuses on ‘neon’ colours like cyans, pinks, yellows and purples. There are 20 effects to choose from.

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20 Vaporwave Neon Lightroom Presets & LUTs

5. 50 Cyberpunk Lightroom Presets and LUTs

Turn your photographs into a brightly-coloured creative masterpiece with this set of 50 Presets and LUTs with a cyberpunk theme. Try deep black shadows with bright neon colours, fiery sunset colours, and inverted tones.

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50 Cyberpunk Lightroom Presets and LUTs

6. 50 Anime Lightroom Presets and LUTs

If you love the bright, vibrant colours of anime then you’ll love this set of 50 LUTs and Lightroom presets. Dreamy blue skies and radiant colours await you in five different categories, each with ten LUTs to choose from.

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50 Anime Lightroom Presets and LUTs

7. Daydream Lightroom Presets and LUTs

Go the full Wes Anderson with Daydream. Designed with sunny, outdoor photography in mind, these LUTS focus on teal, yellow and pink as the predominant colours.

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Daydream Lightroom Presets and LUTs

8. 20 LoFi Nights Lightroom Presets & LUTs

LoFi creates a moody, minimalistic and matte look to your photographs. Each Lightroom preset or LUT also adds a different colour overlay to your image. These presets work with the free Lightroom mobile app as well as with Adobe Camera Raw, Capture One, and more.

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20 LoFi Nights Lightroom Presets & LUTs

9. Black World Lightroom Preset

A minimalistic black and orange creative preset with a light matte effect. Black World – actually three presets – gives your photographs a very modern and stylised look that would work really well for urban shoots.

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Black World Lightroom Preset

10. 20 Red Forest Lightroom Presets & LUTs

Red Forest is a set of 20 Lightroom presets and creative LUTS designed to turn foliage greens into fiery reds, like infrared film.  There are five of each category to choose from: Afterglow, Ash, Carmine and Eruption.

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20 Red Forest Lightroom Presets & LUTs

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