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If You Photograph People, You’ll Want to Get These

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 12/01/2025
12/04/2025
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Woman in black dress holds Vogue and Another magazines, lifting sunglasses, with a serious expression. Black and white.
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Listen up! Ever shot a wonderful portrait but weren’t sure what kind of edit you wanted to do with it? We’re giving you 20 different options to choose from with our Adobe Lightroom presets designed from decades of photojournalistic experiences. The best part is that you can even use these on Lightroom’s mobile apps on your smartphone. Plus, they work with Capture One as well — and they’re all part of our shop!

Why Buy These

A total of 20 different presets make up our Lightroom Photojournalism Presets Pack. Ten of these are color-based, and the remaining 10 are focused on black and white results. We developed these to ensure that they don’t really look similar to one another. A few of these are Adaptive presets. This means that Lightroom scans your images for faces and skies and will skillfully apply edit masks only to those areas. You can always adjust the intensity of the presets using the Amount slider in the Develop module, even in the Lightroom mobile app

Color Presets

Use the sliders below to see the effects of each preset on the portrait.

Smiling woman with curly hair wearing a white tank top and a black headband, facing the camera.Smiling woman with curly hair wearing a white tank top and black headband, facing the camera.
PJ 01 – HKG
Woman in a sun hat and floral dress looking to the side, smiling softly outdoors.Woman in a wide-brimmed hat and floral dress looks to the side, smiling in warm sunlight.
PJ 02 – Warm Bazaar
Woman in a sleeveless black dress and heels smiling while walking outdoors near stone buildings.Woman in a black dress and heels smiling while walking in a sunlit, rustic courtyard.
PJ 03 – Bright Street Sights
Man in a leather jacket stands and smiles on a city street at night, with blurred lights behind him.A man in glasses and a leather jacket stands smiling on a city street at night with lights behind him.
PJ 04 – LA Sunset (adaptive)
A woman practices yoga in tree pose on a mat at a train station platform, wearing a green outfit.Woman doing yoga in tree pose on a platform, train and city buildings in the background.
PJ 05 – Dark Moody Blues
A young woman with wavy hair smiles brightly with her eyes closed, wearing a black top and silver necklace.A woman with wavy brown hair laughs with her eyes closed, wearing a black top and silver necklaces.
PJ 06 – Pastel Sunrise

Woman with curly hair winking and giving a thumbs up, smiling, with a man smiling in the background.A woman with curly hair winks and gives a thumbs up, smiling at the camera, with a man in the background.
PJ 07 – Color Blast
A jockey in a red helmet and blue and gold silks looks ahead with a focused expression.A jockey wearing a red helmet and blue racing silks, looking focused during a nighttime event.
PJ 08 – Hazy Awakening
Close-up of a man with short dark hair and beard, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.A man with short dark hair and a beard looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
PJ 09 – Vintage NYC Autumn
A man with short brown hair and a beard smiles at the camera, wearing a maroon shirt, with a dark background.A smiling man with short brown hair and a beard, wearing a maroon shirt, against a dark background.
PJ 10 – Purple Heart (adaptive)

Black And White

Man in a blue suit and glasses smiling while talking on a smartphone outside, with a red background.A smiling man in glasses and a blazer talks on his phone.
PJ 11 – Monsoon Masala
Woman in a green dress smiles, holding pink and green balloons on a sunny sidewalk with bikes nearby.Woman in a polka-dot dress holding balloons on a sunny city sidewalk, smiling at the camera.
PJ 12 – Monochrome Lights
A man with curly hair and a beard looks at the camera with a slight smile, wearing a colorful jacket.A man with curly hair and a beard looks at the camera with a slight smile; photo is in black and white.
PJ 13 – Your Parents’ Albums
A man in glasses and a maroon shirt stands outdoors, smiling slightly with trees and a building in the background.A man wearing glasses and a henley shirt stands outside, looking at the camera with a slight smile.
PJ 14 – Open Your Eyes Tomorrow
Man in a patterned jacket and white cap smiles and gives a thumbs up, standing outdoors in sunlight.A man wearing a cap and patterned jacket gives a thumbs up, smiling at the camera.
PJ 15 – Find Me I’m Lost
A man with glasses and a camera walks outside at night under red streetlights, smiling at the camera.A man with glasses and a camera walks on a city street at night, smiling.
PJ 16 – Silver Sparks
A man with a beard and mustache smiles warmly, wearing a white shirt, standing by a window.Smiling man with a beard in a white shirt, standing by a window, black and white photo.
PJ 17 – Gritty Max
Woman in black dress and sunglasses holding Vogue and another magazine against a red background.Woman in black dress holds Vogue and Another magazines, lifting sunglasses, with a serious expression. Black and white.
PJ 18 – Love The Back Alleys
Woman in a sunhat and blue dress stands by water with a city skyline in the background on a sunny day.Woman in a sunhat stands by the water with a city skyline in the background, black-and-white image.
PJ 19 – ND Sky Monochrome
Woman with long dark hair and pink lipstick gazing to the side against a neutral background.Black and white portrait of a woman with long dark hair, looking thoughtfully to the side.
PJ 20 – Portrait Pop (adaptive)

These are available for purchase right now. You can buy the color or monochrome sets separately or both of them together at a discount. Visit our online store to buy them. If Capture One is your preferred choice of editing software, don’t worry – they’re available for this too!

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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