10 Lightroom Sunset Presets: Download FREE Now!

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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.

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 these on.

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

Lightroom Sunset Presets

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. Sunset Preset One

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

2. Sunset Preset Two

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

3. Sunset Preset Three

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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. Sunset Preset Four

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

5. Sunset Preset Five

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

6. Sunset Preset Six

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7. Sunset Preset Seven

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8. Sunset Preset Eight

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9. Sunset Preset Nine

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10. Sunset Preset Ten

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Don’t forget to try the other Free Lightroom Preset Packs!

Get access to premium sunset Lightroom presets from 123Presets for a discounted price – 15% off with code LAPSEOFTHESHUTTER.

Lightroom sunset presets

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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.


Get Over 1000+ Free Lightroom Presets!

If you want more free presets for Lightroom, then you can get a link to download the Lightroom Develop System for free, by joining my mailing list.

The Lightroom Develop System is a guided set of over 1000 presets that allows you to easily apply different styles in varying proportions to quickly perfect your images.


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