Vol 1. Lightroom Night Presets

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Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

These 10 Lightroom night photography presets let you edit your night photos to a professional level without any difficulty. You can use these on any blue hour or true night photo, whether taken in the city or the countryside.


Presets Included:

  • Midnight Mystic
  • Neon Nightscape
  • Moonlit Serenade
  • Twilight Blues Booster
  • Nocturnal Contrast Lift
  • Urban Dusk Glow
  • Aurora Dream Filter
  • Urban Snow
  • City Blue Hour
  • Candlelight

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See the article on installing Lightroom presets if you are unsure how to do this. These night presets are free for you to use, but please link back to www.lapseoftheshutter.com if you post your images online.

You can also download free photos for retouching to use with these presets if you don’t have your own.

For more presets, go back to my Lightroom Presets Free Download ZIP main page.


Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

There are 10 Lightroom night presets for free download. See the examples below and then click the button for immediate download.

These are designed to help boost your night images, which are often dark and underexposed, or to add moodiness to your photos.

There is a very similar set of Lightroom presets, the Moody Lightroom presets collection, which is also free to download and I would urge you to check out if you are looking for presets that give a darker look.

1. City Blue Hour

Enhances the streetlights and glow of cities during blue hour.

Lightroom Presets for Night Photos
Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

2. Urban Snow

Ideal for photos with lots of bright lights and/or snow.

Lightroom Presets for Night Photos
Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

3. Midnight Mystic

Ideal for capturing the deep and mysterious tones of night scenes.

Lightroom Presets for Night Photos
Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

4. Aurora Dream Filter

Ideal for capturing and enhancing the natural colors of auroras or northern lights.

Lightroom Presets for Night Photos
Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

5. Urban Dusk Glow

Designed for evening cityscapes, enhancing the warm glow of streetlights.

Lightroom Presets for Night Photos
Lightroom Presets for Night Photos

6. Twilight Blues Booster

Captures the unique blue hues present during twilight hours.

Night Lightroom Presets
Night Lightroom Presets

7. Moonlit Serenade

Tailored to enhance the soft, serene light of moonlit environments.

Night Lightroom Presets
Night Lightroom Presets

8. Nocturnal Contrast Lift

Increases contrast to highlight details often lost in night photography.

Night Lightroom Presets
Night Lightroom Presets

9. Neon Nightscape

Perfect for urban night photography where neon lights dominate the scene.

Night Lightroom Presets
Night Lightroom Presets

10. Candlelight

Enhances low light scenes.

Night Lightroom Presets
Night Lightroom Presets

Lightroom Mobile Night Presets

If you want to use these Lightroom night presets with Lightroom Mobile, then you can follow the guide in this article. Essentially, you must install the presets onto your desktop version of Lightroom, and then sync them to the cloud to make them available in Lightroom Mobile.


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