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10 Anime Inspired LUTs and Presets for Colourful Photos in Lightroom

10 Anime Inspired LUTs and Presets for Colourful Photos in Lightroom

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Get a bright, colourful look to your photographs with some of our best, professionally made LUTs and presets. We'll include sets influenced by anime, neon and cityscape styles.

On this page we take a look at ten top Lightroom LUTs and presets available from Envato: we review premium templates from Envato Elements and Envato Market.

10 Top Colourful LUTs and Presets for Lightroom

Featured Template Pack: 50 Anime Lightroom Presets and LUTs

Recreate the look of brightly coloured anime with this pack of presets for Lightroom.

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50 Anime Lightroom Presets and LUTs

Project Details

This project was created by Envato Elements author sparklestock.

File Type: XML
Program Version: Any Adobe photo or video editing suite, 2019+ 

Key Features

Using new 3D colour grading techniques you'll get breath-taking colours: bright blue skies, shocking green foliage and vibrant colour pops on things like building signage.

Download and Try 

With a subscription to Envato Elements you get unlimited Lightroom presets and LUTS, video, audio, images, graphics and more, including 50 Anime Lightroom Presets and LUTs.

The LUT pack 50 Anime Lightroom Presets and LUTs is included with a subscription to Envato Elements.
 
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Kawaii presets from Envato Elements

More Top Presets and LUTs for Lightroom From Envato Elements

Unlimited downloads from Envato Elements mean you can try as many Lightroom presets as you like, so if the above pack isn't quite your style, no worries! Here are some great alternatives.

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Blue Night Action & Lightrom Presets

Lightroom LUTs and Presets on Envato Market

If an Elements subscription doesn't fit your project or you don't find what you need, with Lightroom presets from Envato Market you can keep your work on a budget without cutting corners on style. Here are some great Lightroom presets to help you choose:

20 Anime World Lightroom Presets & LUTs - $12

Transform your photos with surreal colours inspired by anime movies. Presets included work with Lightroom desktop and mobile plus Capture One and .CUBE LUTs are in there too so you can also use these with video.

20 Tokyo Lightroom Presets & LUTs - $12

Infuse your photographs with bright and vibrant colours, separated into four categories: Baby Reveal, Blue Highlight, Blue Sky and Blush, each with five options.

Ed Underwater Lr Presets - $15

These Lightroom Presets work in a similar way to the neon sets, bringing out bright colours and giving them an otherworldly look. There are 20 presets included in the pack.

Utopia Supreme Color Grading - Lightroom Presets - $4

Utopia will give you a cinematic and futuristic edit, bringing out bright colours with a focus particularly on blue and red/orange. The files included are XMP so they'll work in any Adobe photo-editing suite: Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Camera RAW.

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More Resources for Lightroom Users

To help you get creative, here are more free resources from Envato Tuts+.

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If you're new to Lightroom or to photography in generally, then you might like How to Create a Signature Look for Your Photos With Lightroom Classic where you'll learn how to develop a style and a recognisable continuity between your images.

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About This Page

How We Picked

We looked at projects and considered all kinds of variables, including organization, complexity, experience required and overall difficulty, minimum hardware specifications, included versions and options, formats, resolution, file size, dependencies and required plug-ins (if any), language options, software versions supported, style, design, and cost. You can read more about how we select items at How We Pick Templates to Feature on Envato Tuts+.

About the Authors

Marie Gardiner is a writer and photographer from the North East of England. After gaining her degree in Film and Media, Marie worked in the media industry, before leaving to set up the business she runs with her partner: Lonely Tower Film & Media. As well as writing about visual practices like photography and video, Marie is also the author of Sunderland Industrial Giant (The History Press, 2017) and Secret Sunderland (Amberley Publishing 2019). Her photographic work focuses on landscapes and industrial ruins, particularly those of the North Pennines as she continues to work on her long-form documentary project Changing Landscapes.

This page was edited and published by Jackson Couse on October 6th, 2021.

Share Your Craft on the Envato Forums

Finally, if you put one of these Lightroom presets to use, please do let us know on the Envato forums. We love to see the projects you create!