From shooting exotic foreign cars in epic locations to capturing classic cars in your local city, photographing cars comes with its share of joy and excitement, but editing these photos can be a huge task to take on.
Whether you’re looking for a minimal look, vibrant editorial feel, or a dark moody aesthetic, car presets for Lightroom will have an answer for you! Whether you’re shooting for a client or as a hobby, check out our picks for the best car presets to edit your automotive photos to perfection.
Wondering what lenses are best to capture your cars? Check out these lenses for car photography.
Want more presets and tips? Check out our several Lightroom preset packs and more preset guides!
The Ultimate Automotive Lightroom Preset Bundle
Rev up your automotive photography with the all-in-one Ultimate Automotive Preset Bundle. Featuring 10 distinct presets, each one is designed to amplify the beauty of various car scenes without compromising the natural essence of the photo and its tones.
From golden hour drives to gritty garage shoots, luxury rides, and everything in between, there’s a preset in this pack for any car photography environment you find yourself in.
Car Culture Lightroom Presets
Automotive presets and LUTs? Dive into this combo 20 Lightroom presets and video editing LUTs pack for all your car photography needs. When it comes to the presets, each edit adds a subtle fade, enhancing vibrant colors and enriching car paint for that perfect pop! Whether your backdrop is a monochromatic concrete jungle or lush roads of the countryside, these presets bring out the bold, vibrant tones that’ll make your car the focus of any setting.
Cinematic Car Lightroom Presets
Blend your car photography with a bold, cinematic flair using the Cinematic Car Lightroom preset pack. This collection of 30 presets unlocks intense contrast, rich saturation, and deep shadows for a moody, dramatic feel. Designed to make every detail pop, these presets transform your photos into bold, striking scenes fit for a thrilling action film.
Check out our full post of cinematic Lightroom presets for more like these!
Urban Car Photography Presets
Give your car shots a street edge with these 14 Urban Car Lightroom presets! Meticulously created for city settings, these presets add sleek colorgrading to make paint pop, headlights glow, and urban details shine. With skin-protected options for photos featuring people, you’ll get the ultimate balance for cars and models alike. From street to editorial, these presets are your key to bold city car photography.
Looking for more city-ready presets? Don’t miss our full round-up of city and urban Lightroom presets.
Clean Car Presets
This 25 preset pack is created to add a simple and clean look to your car photos. Without any fancy saturation bumps or texture additions, these presets simplify the beauty of your car photos. The color grading is subtle and natural, with minimal exposure enhancements. Your cars already look great – give them a subtle post-production push with these presets!
Clean Matte Automotive Presets
Add a clean matte look to your automotive photos with this versatile pack of 16 presets! Designed for a rich, faded look, these presets work across all car colors and lighting conditions. Whether you’re capturing sleek rides on city streets, amidst mountain roads, or at the racetrack, these presets will enhance your photos with that smooth, clean matte finish!
Universal Car Lightroom Presets
Get versatile, flawless edits with this all-encompassing Lightroom preset pack. Designed to suit any car, color, or setting, these presets apply balanced contrast and sharp details, bringing out the smooth edges and enhancing body panels for a sleek, refined look. Use any of these 19 presets to elevate your cars in any environment, whether urban streets or gritty natural landscapes.
Faded Car Lightroom Presets
Create an elevated look with your automotive photography using these clean and faded Lightroom presets. This versatile pack of 10 presets gives your photos a subtle, stylish fade, perfect for giving car shots a consistent and professional look. Whether on the road or parked against a stunning backdrop, these presets bring out smooth textures and softened shadows, making every photo feel like part of a curated collection.
Overland Off-roading Lightroom Presets
Add some ruggedness to your off-road shots with the Overland Off-roading Lightroom presets. This set of 20 presets delivers a desaturated, earthy look, highlighting beiges, grays, and rock tones. Ideal for showcasing dirt and dust on a vehicle, these presets enhance sharpness and clarity, bringing out every raw detail of your adventurous journey.
Muted Car Lightroom Presets
Dial back the noise and let your car take the spotlight with these muted Lightroom presets. This 10-preset pack softens the surrounding environment while preserving sharpness and enhancing the car’s paint colors. The result? A clean, polished look that keeps your car the star of the show!
Dark Aesthetic Car Presets
Elevate your car photos with these premium dark aesthetic Lightroom presets. These 10 presets for desktop and mobile will have your car photos looking clean, edgy and sophisticated– they’re designed to darken the overall feel of your photos, while highlighting the vibrant features of your cars and adding an overall sharpness. Give it a go with your automotive snaps!
Ultimate Automotive Preset Bundle
This Ultimate Automotive preset bundle comes packed with 30 presets for both desktop and mobile. The advantage here is the optionality of presets to choose and apply with your car photos. Cars come in all sorts of different shapes, sizes, and colors and can be captured in a multitude of settings – so pick and choose which of these presets bring out the best of your photos!
Black Tones Car Presets
Minimize the tones of your car photos with these black tones car presets. The idea with these 10 presets for desktop and mobile is to make the colors of your car the main focus, while darkening the environment around it. This works best with environments that have lots of gray and textures – such as concrete buildings and roads.
Chrome Cars Pro Presets
Add a pop of vibrancy to your car photos with this Chrome Cars Pro preset pack. This collection of 17 desktop and mobile presets are designed to enhance the look of your car photos by accentuating the details and adding some beautiful saturation. 10 of the presets are for exterior shots, while 7 are for car interiors – so you have several options to play with to get your car photos just right!
Automotive Desktop & Mobile Presets
These automotive desktop and mobile presets add an overall premium look to your car photos. The included 15 presets for desktop and mobile add a lovely balanced look to the photo edits – with natural tones, perfect texture and sharpness, and a soft glow to complete it all. These presets will have your car photos looking like they came from a magazine!
Cars Presets for Desktop & Mobile
This rich and dark aesthetic preset pack for cars comes with 15 presets for desktop and mobile. The presets tastefully darken your car photos, while keeping the focus on warmer tones. Capture your cars in minimal spaces, in nature, or in the city – and watch them get elevated through this preset pack!
Dark Matte Car Presets
Add that matte black look to your car shots with these Dark Matte Lightroom presets. These 25 presets for desktop and mobile allow you to pick and choose whichever look works best with any car photos you have. These presets focus on toning down the colors of your photos, while adding some sharpness enhancements and a subtle dark matte look!
Free Car Presets
Not sure which of these car presets you want to start with? Before jumping into premium packs, we’ve gathered a few free car presets to test out on your photos!
Free Warm Car Preset
Free Cool Car Preset
Free Vibrant Car Preset
Which one of these car presets for Lightroom will you edit your pics with? Are there any we’re missing? Let us know in the comments!
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