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Photomatix Presets

These free Photomatix presets are developed by FixThePhoto to make your shots clear and saturated. You can use them to get beautiful and bright colors in Photomatix, fix shades and shadows in a quick way.

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Free Photomatix Presets Bundle:

• Photomatix Preset #1 "Beautiful"
• Photomatix Preset #2 "Contrast"
• Photomatix Preset #3 "Black and White"
• Photomatix Preset #4 "Smooth"
• Photomatix Preset #5 "Sunny"
• Photomatix Preset #6 "Darken"
• Photomatix Preset #7 "Brighten"
• Photomatix Preset #8 "Portrait"
• Photomatix Preset #9 "Landscape"
• Photomatix Preset #10 "Soft"

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What are Photomatix Presets?

Photomatix presets let you edit shots in one click more effectively than performing all the manipulations separately. You can apply them to your pictures and then adjust what you need manually. Highlight temperature, make color correction or adjust white balance and exposure settings in Photomatix easy and quickly.

Photomatix is an application for editing HDR images. It contains a variety of tools for improving shots, which may be used to eliminate too bright or dark areas of the image while preserving all the details, neutralize noise, adjust saturation, make the details more striking, etc. The program is designed for professional shooters and amateurs with experience.

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Why do you need free Photomatix Presets?

The popularity of Photomatix presets among photographers has recently increased. Many of them started using Photomatix as an alternative to paid Adobe Lightroom. If you see that a shot is underexposed, then you just select a preset to increase the exposure and apply it to the shot. If you notice that there is a lot of noise in the shot, choose a noise reduction preset — and lower the noise along with regulating all the other parameters in one click. With Photomatix presets, the picture post-production takes less time. Photomatix offers a vast selection of presets for various photography genres. Pick whatever you need – an intense and contrasting black and white effect for a dramatic landscape or a color effect with increased contrast and saturation for portrait editing, etc.

What are the main advantages of Photomatix presets?

• Quick and top-grade results

• The trendiest effects

• Suitable for practically all photo styles

• Compatible with Windows and macOS

• Support for JPEG and RAW formats

• Photoshop CS3-CS6, PSE11-18 and Creative Cloud

   

 

 

10 FREE Photomatix Presets

These really cool presets will make your shots look amazing and give you a reputation of a picture editing expert in Photomatix.

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Photomatix Preset #1 "Beautiful"

This preset adds a stunning vintage effect to portraiture. The preset is great for adding softness to the skin and slightly raising the brightness of natural shades. 

The shot will acquire an effect of scattered light with increased contrast. Besides, the preset boosts warmth, muting it a bit. 

Unlike similar presets with a faded effect, it helps get a sharp and clear portrait, with prominent details. In case you are after a magnificent retro look with natural colors, this Photomatix preset is an ideal option.

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Photomatix Preset #2 "Contrast"

You should always be careful while adding warmth to the shots. Once you go overboard, there may appear too much orange. 

When there isn’t enough warmth, the shot looks as if devoid of color. With the help of the “Contrast” preset, you can saturate the picture with intense yellowish shades. After applying it, shadows and exposure will be raised and you will get a truly moody shot. 

We highly recommend you to use the preset for urban shots as it adds an overall dramatic atmosphere. The preset is suitable for sports photography as well. Before you apply this filter, remember that it intensifies mid-tones, pulling them to the darker side, which may produce a purplish tint. 

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Photomatix Preset #3 "Black and White"

Black & White Photomatix presets are also in high demand among photographers. This preset perfectly fits portraiture, especially if you want to add a certain atmosphere to the shot, emphasize the emotions of the model. 

It highlights all the features and details of a subject in a portrait. Apply the preset whenever you feel like the B&W effect will help you convey the initial idea of the shot better. It works with pictures taken outside as well as in the studio.

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Photomatix Preset #4 "Smooth"

It never hurts to tweak a portrait a little bit, especially when it comes to editing skin. The entire process is rather complicated. But you don’t need to care about that if you have this preset at your disposal. It raises brightness, emphasizes highlights, neutralizes shadows and adds a wonderful airy effect to the shot. The preset is suitable mostly for portrait shots taken in the studio or with natural lighting. 

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Photomatix Preset #5 "Sunny"

This filter is a great addition to Photomatix presets collection for editing portrait, travel, wedding, and outdoor pictures. Sunny shots, when taken properly, can really diversify any photography portfolio. 

The preset enhances that gorgeous sunny effect, making the shot brighter, clearer, warmer and more saturated. If you don’t want to end up having an unnatural-looking picture, apply the filter only to the shots taken outside. 

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Photomatix Preset #6 "Darken"

This preset is a real treasure for all the fans of shooting at night. It is a perfect match for landscape, concert and street shots taken at nighttime as well as those taken in nightclubs. Applying the preset to wedding party pictures may also work. 

It makes the night lighting more prominent, raises contrast and alters the colors, emphasizing warm and blue shades. This preset performs details recovery from shadows and highlights. 

If you are at the starting point of portrait or night photography post-processing, this preset will greatly help you out.

 

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Photomatix Preset #7 "Brighten"

In case your aim is to achieve an ageless look in your photos, this Photomatix preset will come in handy. It raises brightness, contrast, vibrancy and adds sharpness to the details. 

If your shots taken in cloudy and gloomy weather lacks light, apply this preset. Experts recommend using this filter for portrait and wedding photography since it preserves the initial shades of the picture.

The colors of flowers, clothes of newlyweds and guests, etc. won’t be get distorted with this preset.

 

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Photomatix Preset #8 "Portrait"

As Polaroid-style shots and Instagram filters are currently in trend, you absolutely need to have retro film Photomatix presets in your toolkit. This “Portrait” preset adds marvelous toning to your shots, creating a retro effect that conveys a sense of pleasant nostalgia. 

It raises sharpness and adds a faded effect similar to the one inherent in old pictures. Don’t forget to tweak the preset’s parameters to achieve the best result possible. It will greatly help you out at the early stages of the picture post-production. 

 

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Photomatix Preset #9 "Landscape"

The main goal of landscape photography editing is to boost colors, make the shot clearer and more contrasting. That’s exactly what this “Landscape” preset does. 

It is an indispensable tool for all traveling and landscape photographers, who want to add more vibrancy and visual appeal to their shots. Moreover, this preset suits a great number of photography genres, so try experimenting. 

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Photomatix Preset #10 "Soft"

This Photomatix preset is an ideal option for the cases when you want to achieve the toning that is so popular on social networks nowadays. It is developed mainly for lifestyle and landscape shots but will perfectly suit other genres as well. 

The preset makes the pictures brighter and slightly more contrasting, boosts white shades. Apply it to the shots of a bride wearing a white dress and you will see an incredible result. In addition, the preset produces a gentle matte effect, without going overboard.  

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Installing Photomatix Presets

Photomatix presets are compatible with Windows and macOS. Therefore, we will describe two ways of how you can install these presets.

How to Install Photomatix Presets on Mac

Mac OS has its own peculiarities, so we will tell you about the easiest way of installing Photomatix presets.

How to Install Photomatix Presets on Windows

Follow these instructions to install Photomatix presets on Windows OS.

 Editing Photos in Photomatix in Video Tutorials

Making Color Adjustments in Photomatix Pro 6 Tutorial

Discover in what way you can use color adjustments in Photomatix Pro 6 to tweak saturation, temperature and brightness of the entire shot and alter only certain parts of the photo with the Brush Tool. Find out how to increase brightness and saturation of separate colors and turn one color into another. 

Using Blending in Photomatix Pro 6 Tutorial 

Find out how you can use the Blend with Original feature in Photomatix Pro 6 to achieve a natural look in the shot. Find out how to blend the whole shot with one of the source exposures and how to work with the Brush Tool to blend only certain parts of an image.

Creating HDR Real Estate Interior Photos 

Learn how to use HDR photography to get a properly lit real estate interior shot, preserving the highlights from the window. Watch the tutorial to find out how to combine bracketed exposures in Photomatix Pro and pick presets suitable for real estate interior shots. Tips on exporting the picture for use on MLS, cropping and straightening techniques are described as well. 

Using Photomatix Pro 6 from Lightroom Tutorial 

How to use Photomatix Pro 6 from Lightroom? Watch the video tutorial to learn. Pick the pictures, enable the Plug-in and perform picture editing in Photomatix. Then import the rendered HDR picture back to Lightroom. 

Tutorial Photomatix Essentials 4.2 

Discover the ways of loading bracketed shots, adjusting HDR pictures to your taste, rendering, cropping and saving them with the Windows-based version of Photomatix Essentials.

Creating, Using & Importing Presets  

It doesn’t matter whether you are new to HDR Photomatix Pro or you have been using it for a while – you can make great use of presets. They fasten the entire picture processing, help achieve a consistent look and remind you of the last HDR edits you made. This tutorial explains how to create, use and import presets in Photomatix Pro 5.

Creating an Amazing HDR with Photomatix 

In this tutorial, you will see how Serge Ramelli creates an HDR effect in a shot using Photomatix. This is his HDR Basics Project #1, as he calls it.

Working with Single Raw Files 

Discover in what way it is better to pre-edit separate RAW files in Photomatix Pro. The author of this tutorial is Join Rich Harrington, who delves into the world of high dynamic range (HDR) with the help of HDR Photomatix software.

Editing HDR Waterscapes 

For many newbies, it is a challenging task to take decent pictures of water bodies with running water and then combine them into HDR pictures. That’s why, in this tutorial, Joe Jackson decided to demonstrate the entire process of how he does it to achieve an efficient result in Photomatix Pro and Lightroom.