Marat Safin – Gala – Lightroom Preset Pack Free Download

June 24, 2024 3 Min Read

I have been doing photography since 2006. Since then, my photographic equipment has changed: I started with a compact camera and gradually moved to a Nikon digital SLR. My photo processing style has also changed: in terms of the color, saturation, contrast, toning. Finally, the shooting process itself has changed for me: the vision of light, colors, in-camera settings. And if I were asked today to process new photos as I did in e.g. 2013, 2014 – with high contrast, not saturated, gloomy – then I would not be able to do it. Or rather, I could repeat it, but I don’t want to since my preferences have changed. Recently I decided to dig through the old archives of my photos and found a lot of Raw files, with the processing options applied to them in ACR (Lightroom). This inspired me to put together the “Gala” preset pack. I never liked (and still don’t like) editing photos, and therefore I only spend about a minute on processing one picture in the editor. And I often record presets for myself, as this speeds up processing even more.“Gala” – is a set of 17 presets for Lightroom (including mobile version) and ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) recorded by me (old and new) from photos from 2011 to 2020.

«TW»

Recorded in 2017 and actively used during that period. Back then I lived in St. Petersburg and mostly photographed girls in apartments. Of course it was cloudy outside. The preset is high-contrast, with neutral tones leaning to the cool side. It’s similar to the settings I frequently use with my Nikon D700 camera. The only difference is that in the camera everything looks “green”, and the preset rather gives more of the “cyan” color. Examples:

«FL»

The preset was created in 2014. At that time, I was shooting outdoors much more often, and one could often see twilight light and overcast light in my photographs. The preset is contrasty, detailed in highlights and has a warm tone. Examples

«BW»

The B&W preset created in 2013. It’s very contrasty and noisy in places, often requires adjustments to the settings. It makes red, warm colors darker. You might know that I prefer color photos to black and white ones, and I mostly shoot using the color settings in the camera, but I still do B&W. And, of course, I am in favor of getting contrasting skin, which is why I recorded the corresponding preset. Some examples below

You may have noticed that most of the presets in the Gala pack reduce the number of colors and/or merge the colors. This is due to my tastes. I do similar editing in Photoshop. Therefore, as a bonus, you will also receive the “Selective Color” preset for Ps, which I often use for the “final” color editing.

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