My Ultimate Lightroom Sunset Presets!

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Lightroom Sunset Presets

Get 10 free Lightroom presets for sunrise and sunset, including Golden Hour Lightroom presets. These Lightroom sunset presets are suitable for all of your landscape and cityscape images, and give a real boost to any photos taken into the sun, or taken around sunset.


Presets Included:

  • Golden Hour Enhancer
  • Sunset Contrast Amplifier
  • Blue Horizon
  • All-Season Sunset
  • Artistic Sunset Stylizer
  • Sunset Warmth Booster
  • Twilight Enhancer
  • Pastel Sunset Softener
  • Sunset Silhouette Creator
  • Evening Glow Optimizer

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Learn how to install these presets in the linked article, and download free photos to edit if you don’t have your own to test presets on.

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


Sunset Lightroom Presets

These 10 free sunset Lightroom presets are available to download below. Feel free to use these however you like, but please link back to www.lapseoftheshutter.com with any of your published images!

1. Golden Hour Enhancer

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

Some of the presets boost the yellows in your images, removing blues and helping to counteract the underexposed parts of your photos that are common when exposing for the sunset.

2. Sunset Contrast Amplifier

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

Others give a strong boost to the sunset colors to help bring out the contrast between the sunset and the landscape.

3. Blue Horizon

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

Or choose one of the Lightroom presets that adds the blues back into your images that can be removed by the high dynamic range of the sunset.

4. All-Season Sunset

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

These presets are suitable for any sunrises or sunsets, including Winter snow scenes.

5. Artistic Sunset Stylizer

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

And there are some more stylized effects to help you create a more unique image.

6. Sunset Warmth Booster

Enhances the warm tones typical of the twilight hour.

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

7. Twilight Enhancer

Specifically designed to amplify the blues and purples of twilight.

Sunset Lightroom Presets
Sunset Lightroom Presets

8. Pastel Sunset Softener

Softens the colors for a gentle, pastel-toned look.

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

9. Sunset Silhouette Creator

Ideal for creating striking silhouette effects against a sunset backdrop.

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

10. Evening Glow Optimizer

Optimizes the overall balance of light and color in evening shots.

Lightroom Sunset Presets
Lightroom Sunset Presets

Sunset Presets Lightroom Mobile

If you want to use these sunset presets with Lightroom Mobile, then first install them to your desktop version of Lightroom. After syncing your presets to the cloud (see Adobe’s article for details on how to do this), they should then be available for you to use in Lightroom Mobile.


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