The 10 Best Outdoor & Landscape Lightroom Presets

Photography is a powerful way to bring the outdoors to your fingertips. An incredible landscape can teleport you back to a moment, even when you’re working in your home office.

Landscapes come in all shapes and sizes. So are the Adobe Lightroom presets that style them. Although your landscapes look flat as RAW images, presets can change them back to life. They will take an uninspired, unedited frame and help recover the energy of the scene.

Let’s check out ten of the best free Lightroom outdoor presets. Each of these offers a different way to style those pictorial moments.

Note: These free Adobe Lightroom presets are used for Adobe Lightroom Classic. They are packaged with .xmp files. Check out our instructions for installing these presets below.

Do your colors look watered down? Lushify is the perfect starting point. I love presets that make the photo appear to me the same way remember the scene, vivid and rich with memories. Lushify helps you do that in the post-processing step.

With a bit of a faded effect, High Tide is a great preset to give your landscapes a retro look. This preset includes a magical balance between enriching the tone of the image and extending it to a vintage style. Think of this as the ideal preset for looking back on your holiday landscapes.

Sometimes, you may not know where to start when styling an image. That’s only natural because you can adjust an image in many ways. One Click Wonder helps you get started with these adjustments. Use this preset as a launching point to upgrade your image from RAW to stunning.

Trey Ratcliff pioneered the use of HDR photography in landscapes, and his influence continues today. These presets are not neutral everyday styles. They are designed with high key, high detail, and contrasting style. Use this pack of free landscape presets for unforgettable scenes.

Green is a dominant color in many landscape images, and this preset brings out most of them. This preset is best used as a style that increases the amount of green colors to make them take center stage in your landscape.

As the name suggests, this preset casts sunny colors throughout the image. If your photos are not inspired by the original scene, try this as a first step. Another easy option is to heat up a photo.

For thousands of years, people have been drawn to the sea for holidays. That includes capturing amazing photos of the oceans and lakes. A Seaside Story brings out the blue hues in those images to make the most of any image with water, with just one click.

Every list of landscape presets requires a black and white option. This one fits the bill perfectly for a high-contrast monochrome look. The link above has ten styles you can use to test black and white transformations.

Not all landscapes are dominated by shades of green. Beautiful landscapes also include plenty of brown clay elements. These can still be a location with great views, and Merigold warms those views perfectly. Try this on your favorite landscapes with rocky elements.

Rounding out our selection, this preset is another great way to take a file from flat to finished. With increased clarity and enhanced color, your landscapes will come to life.

How to install Adobe Lightroom Classic Presets