Pretty Presets

Pretty Presets are professional Lightroom presets for portraits. Why are they so popular and frequently downloaded? If you like these beautiful effects, read this article to find out how and where you can download Pretty Presets for free.

Pretty Presets Review

Pretty Presets are a group of film emulator tools designed in the form of filters for Adobe Lightroom. Pretty is the most popular leader among the best selling Lightroom presets. Pretty Presets were originally created by Karlen Kleinkopf and Laura Thomas, photographers, who first met and developed the product in 2010. They have presented something new on the market, something that has significantly simplified photo editing work. Currently, the company works with more than 250,000 professional and amateur photographers.

1. Pretty Presets Enchanted Garden

This pack consists of universal Lightroom film look presets with a nice skin tone, brightness increasing and warm color correction. The color transforms into a red-orange hue. The set of Pretty Presets is entirely optimized for shots taken in dull lighting or in a studio.

Price: $49

2. Pretty Presets Film

This Preset allows you to add dramatic emotions to the photo and makes it warmer with creamy skin tones. The picture acquires a delicate matte shade by darkening the shadows and brightening the light-toned areas. The Pretty Presets Bubble Tea preset from this Pastels Collection is one of the most popular Pretty presets and is the best choice for studio and fashion images.

Price: $74

3. Pretty Presets Color Luxe Workflow

This collection of Pretty Presets is used extensively by street photographers. The color palette isn't quite flawless and accurate, but you could achieve a combination of sharp and soft shadows. The colors would become more vivid and matte. The contrast will be increased and the light will be diffused. Highly recommended for the portraits taken in the Golden Hour.

Price: $54

4. Pretty Presets Noir Collection

This bundle includes many presets that let you add some drama. They will highlight true emotions thanks to the correctly underlined shadows. Blacks become deeper to emphasize the blackness which increases the contrast. The Pretty presets also give a photo a subtle matte effect. These are ideal Lightroom presets for wedding photography.

Price: $74

5. Pretty Presets the Summer Collection

This Pretty Presets bundle is suitable for any style of portrait photography with natural lighting. The preset increases the red color, thus making a shot brighter while leaving the skin tone natural. A picture acquires a light matte shade with intense contrast. Perfect for the portraits with bokeh.

Price: $49

6. Pretty Presets Bomb Pop

The Bomb Pop collection of Pretty Presets lets you add bright colors to shots while slightly increasing the contrast and highlighting the shadows. They correct the white balance and give picture soft and clean colors. They are appropriate for child and family portraits, wedding, fashion, and landscape photography.

Price: $64

7. Pretty Presets the Sugar and Spice Collection

This bundle is great for street shots taken in autumn. It gives images warm, rich colors with a touch of red. Pictures will be filled with soft sunlight and deep, dramatic colors.

Price: $49

8. Pretty Presets Workflow for Portraits

The collection Workflow for portraits includes 25 basic brushes and 51 presets. You can improve areas that are too light, eliminate noise/blur and adjust soft lighting and white balance. This collection is good for wedding and portrait photographers.

Price: $74

9. Pretty Presets Bohemian Collection

The Pretty Presets Bohemian Collection includes 25 PRETTY FILM presets that will let you add rich, warm, film tones to your photos. This collection of presets is designed for photographers working in wedding, portrait, landscape and fashion photography.

Price: $74

10. Pretty Presets Film Noir

25 Pretty Presets for black and white photo editing. Balanced shadows, exposure and increased sharpness gives your photos a gentle matte effect. This set of presets is suitable for photographers working in portrait, wedding, landscape, sports and reportage photography.

Price: $74

11. Dreamy Baby Presets

The collection includes 20 newborn Pretty presets and 20 brushes that allow you to give a baby photo soft colors and creamy skin tone. Presets eliminate noise, make photos brighter and soft. This collection is ideal for any family or child photo.

Price: $74

12. Snow Pretty Presets

This collection includes 32 Christmas Pretty presets + 5 brushes that can be used on the images taken under natural or artificial light. Using these snow Pretty presets, you can fill photos with bright colors, adjusted white balance and clear sharpness. With the help of brushes, you can add snow.

Price: $74

Pretty Actions and Overlays

You can also download Pretty Actions and Overlays but thy are not as good as their Pretty presets. There are few bundles that help you add bubbles, flowers, clouds, etc. to your photos but they are of low quality.

1. Pretty Presets Sky Overlays

The Vivid Skies collection includes 35 high-resolution JPEG overlays and is good for outdoor sunny photos. You can add beautiful clouds, brighten the horizon, enhance sunset and make the overcast sky pop.

Price: $59

2. Pretty Presets Christmas Overlays

This holiday Bokeh overlays for Photoshop include more than 100 different Photoshop plug-ins that you can use to add classic, multicolored bokeh, icicles, lamps, festive lights, etc. Highly recommended for Christmas studio photos.

Price: $39

3. Pretty Presets Brushes for Makeup

This is a universal bundle of Pretty brushes for portrait photo editing. 40 Portrait Pretty brushes for editing skin, enhancing make-up, removing red-eye, whitening teeth, correcting white balance, removing green skin color, etc. This collection is recommended for close-up portrait photos.

Price: $39

How to Get Pretty Presets Free

Because of Pretty Presets’ popularity and expensive rates per bundles,  many amateur photo retouchers are looking for free Lightroom presets. Nowadays, there are so many links and resources where you are promised a download Pretty Presets for free. Unfortunately, absolutely all of them are useless, and the plug-ins you get for free differ from the original files. The maximum that you could get is basic color correction. Based on this, we have prepared our presets, which are Pretty Presets’ analogues.

Pretty Presets Coupon

If you find Pretty Presets’ prices too high, you can use several Pretty Presets coupons. Visiting various websites like RETAILMENOT, OFFERS, GOODSHOP, you can get a small 10%-30% discount on various Pretty Presets. However, there is one significant drawback – these coupons are limited or offered as a single coupon, therefore, you need to be the first and monitor these websites from time to time. You can also get a coupon through the official website. Having bought the first bundle of Pretty Presets, you will get a 30% discount on the next order.

Pretty Presets Blog

If you are not sure you want to download Pretty Presets or not, and want to learn more about the presets you are going to buy, visit their blog. Pretty Presets runs a small blog that talks about its presets, gives photo editing tips, tutorials and useful videos in short form.

12 Freebies

1. Bright Contrast

This preset is similar to “Pretty Presets Enchanted Garden” , as it adds vibrant colors. A picture becomes more delicate, a bright shade accentuates shadows. In addition, a white color becomes even brighter while leaving the skin tone natural.

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2. Natural Color

The preset combines “Pretty Presets the Sugar and Spice Collection” and “Pretty Presets Bomb Pop” while giving an image a natural color. It improves white balance, green transforms into a more intense shade, with a slightly matte hue. Skin tone gets a little reddish in combination with orange. The preset accentuates shadows and highlights bright areas. One of the most gentle Pretty Presets’ free analogues is perfect for landscape and portrait photographers who work with natural light.

3. Orange-Red Preset

This alternative to “Pretty Presets the Sugar and Spice Collection” gives an image orange and red colors making it more vibrant. It is ideal for street pictures taken in low light because the shadows make an image more colorful and highlight bright areas. One of the most impressive presets for photographer adds soft, contrasting colors with a dramatic tone to a picture.

4. Contrast Preset

It somehow resembles “Pretty Presets The Sugar and Spice Collection” . The preset makes a photo more vivid and lively, and fills an image with red-orange colors and corrects white balance. As a result, a picture has a soft sunny hue with a slightly matte color. It is suitable for shots taken on a sunny day in natural light.

5. Matte Soft

The combination of bright, soft color with a matte tone resembles the “Pretty Presets Bomb Pop” bundle. The preset adds rich colors to a shot and eliminates deep shadows. Skin tone acquires a slightly matte shade due to the contrast reduction. It corrects white balance and is therefore suitable for shots taken at home in natural or artificial light.

6. Shadows Elimination

Similar to “Pretty Presets Color Luxe Workflow” , it will remove dark areas and deep shadows in an image while adding clarity and sharpness to the lines. It also corrects skin color, making it more natural with a genuine slightly matte shade.

7. Correct White Balance

The preset integrates “Pretty Presets Color Luxe Workflow” and “Pretty Presets Film” and fills an image with bright, vibrant colors. It corrects white balance and gives a shot a matte tone.

8. Bright Colors

One of the most eye-catching presets that helps brighten shadows, make colors more saturated and balance exposure settings. After applying the filter, you’ll see a slight matte effect, resembling “Pretty Presets The Sugar and Spice Collection” and “Pretty Presets the Summer Collection.”

9. Dramatic Preset

This preset is suitable for wedding shots because it makes a white color more natural, which is a big problem for wedding photography. The effect is similar to “Pretty Presets Film.”

10. Creamy Filter

The preset is a good alternative to “Pretty Presets Film” . You can use it for shots taken in natural lighting conditions. With the preset, the white color becomes more natural and the skin tone acquires a soft matte shade.

11. Free Landscape Presets

A very useful for editing nature and landscape photography. Makes photos vivid and bright, adds HDR. This preset is good for summer, autumn, winter and spring landscape images.

12. Free B&W Presets

This is a classical preset for wedding and portraitphotography. Its main advantages are to make a photo emotional and remove light defects.

Pretty Presets Download

Follow these steps to download Pretty Presets:

STEP 1. Visit the official Pretty Presets website.

STEP 2. In the “Pretty Presets Lightroom” menu, choose the bundle you like.

STEP 3. Click “Add To Cart”

STEP 4. Fill out the form specifying your contact info.

STEP 5. Choose one of the available payment options and pay for Pretty Presets.

STEP 6. Go to your email and click on the link that will be sent to you. You will be automatically redirected to download it.

Pretty Presets Export

STEP 1. In the Edit (Win) or (Mac) menu, choose Preferences. You can also use hotkeys (Ctrl +,).

STEP 2. In the window, go to «Presets», then click on the “Show Lightroom Develop Presets” button.

STEP 3. A folder with the presets will open. Paste the “Pretty Presets” folder from your download that contains the .xmp files into this folder.

STEP 4. Done! If Lightroom was open when you exported Pretty Presets, you will have to close it and restart.