My Best Urban + City Lightroom Presets

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Urban Lightroom Presets

This Urban Lightroom presets free download ZIP includes 10 free Lightroom city presets in one pack, which also have dark urban Lightroom presets and are best applied to provide a gritty realism to the urban landscape, or to just generally boost a city scene.


Presets Included:

  • Skyscraper Tint
  • Streetlight Enhancer
  • Compress Contrast
  • Gritty Detail
  • Contrast Enhancer
  • Daytime Detail Boost
  • Blue Sky Enhance
  • Extra Clarity
  • Reduce Haze
  • City Color Boost

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You can quickly install Lightroom presets by following the outline in this article. Please link back to www.lapseoftheshutter.com if you use any of these urban photography Lightroom presets, but feel free to use them however you wish.

You can also download free RAW landscape photos to use with these presets if you don’t have your own.

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


Urban Lightroom Presets

These urban presets for Lightroom are designed to be used with city photos, particularly photos with lots of street lights at night, although many of them also work well around photos taken around sunset or sunrise.

These presets are relatively light and don’t have as strong an effect as many of my other presets.

1. Skyscraper Tint

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

2. Streetlight Enhancer

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

3. Compress Contrast

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

4. Gritty Detail

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

5. Contrast Enhancer

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

6. Daytime Detail Boost

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

7. Blue Sky Enhance

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

8. Extra Clarity

Urban Lightroom Presets
Urban Lightroom Presets

9. Reduce Haze

Urban Lightroom Preset
Urban Lightroom Preset

10. City Color Boost

Urban Lightroom Preset
Urban Lightroom Preset

Urban Lightroom Mobile Presets

You can use these same urban Lightroom presets for mobile by following Adobe’s guide. The process is to first install the presets on your desktop version of Lightroom, then sync them to the cloud, which makes them available in Lightroom Mobile.


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