From Red, all the way to Rep, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights, Taylor has brought us her latest era: The Tortured Poets Department — and along with it, a soft vintage sepia aesthetic that’s as calming and atmospheric as the Anthology tracks.
Apply Taylor’s latest aesthetic to your photos with these TTPD presets and filters! They add her new signature soft sepia, or even black and white (if you’re The Albatross), textured treatment to your photos.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your photos with a simple soft and glowy finish, or bring some of Taylor’s artistic look to your moments, check out these Tortured Poets Department filters and presets to give your photos Taylor’s new unmistakeable look.
Want more presets and tips? Check out our several Lightroom preset packs and more preset guides!
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All-in-One Tortured Poets Lightroom Preset Pack
Bring Taylor’s TTPD look to any of your photos with The Tortured Poets Preset Pack for Lightroom desktop and mobile!
The pack includes a core TTPD preset to recreate the exact album cover aesthetic — along with presets inspired by The Bolter and The Albatross vinyl variant covers. Apply Taylor’s elegant, moody, and ethereal Tortured Poets look to your photos with these 5 carefully crafted presets for Swifties, by Swifties.
TTPD Inspired Lightroom Preset
The TTPD inspired Lightroom preset pack is a trio of presets designed for desktop, crafted to channel the essence of Taylor’s latest album. The black and white filters deliver balanced contrast and tasteful grey tones, different from the usual light and airy styles which we usually see. With a strong film-like grain to finish the look, these presets perfectly recreate the moody, introspective vibe of the album, making them ideal for Swifties looking to mirror her artistic vision in their photos.
The Tortured Filter Mobile Presets
The Tortured Filter mobile Lightroom presets embody the monochromatic tones from TTPD, recreating the album’s moody poetic vibes. Each preset brings a black and white treatment with a deeply faded look, resulting in an overall grey style that provokes the moodiness Taylor does with this era!
Tortured Poets Style Presets
Featuring 8 Lightroom presets for desktop and mobile, these Tortured Poets Style presets blend a black and white look with increased exposure and highlights for an airy appearance. Subtle sepia tones add warmth, giving each photo a vintage feel that resonates with the moody and emotional look of The Tortured Poets Department album.
Tortured Poets Department Preset & Canva Template
This unique set of Lightroom presets and Canva template takes your photos into the creative realm of The Tortured Poets Department. The presets bring a refined monochrome look that mirrors the strong contrast and deep fades seen in the album’s artwork. You can even overlay the album title onto your photos with the Canva template — turning them into personalized pieces of album art for yourself!
Tortured Poets Department Lightroom Preset
This streamlined Lightroom preset for desktop and mobile brings the simple essence of Tortured Poets Department to your photos. This preset simplifies the edits with a warm black and white conversion that softens the blacks to achieve a grey palette. It foregoes grain to maintain the clean digital finish of your photos, making it ideal for anyone looking to add just a hint of the TTPD look without losing quality and sharpness.
Warm Black & White Film Fade Preset for Lightroom
Quickly get the Tortured Poets look on the go with this mobile preset! It gives a strong fade to your photos along with a black and white edit and prominent grey hue. If you want to perfect the look even more, you can add a few adjustments in brightness, warmth, and soften the clarity to help emulate the look of the album art. Get your mobile photos the ethereal TTPD look you need with this preset!
Smoky Vintage Sepia Aesthetic Lightroom Presets
Add a smoky vintage sepia treatment to your photos, perfectly matching Taylor’s warmer TTPD look. This set comes with 16 Lightroom presets for desktop and mobile that blend your photos with beautifully faded sepia tones and a soft glow. Think golden era Hollywood photography meets your personal, stylistic portraits, and you got yourself the perfect vintage treatment with these presets!
Sepia Fantasy Presets
This Sepia Fantasy preset pack brings a large variety of 60 presets for Lightroom desktop and 10 for mobile. The presets are a versatile mix made for portraits, weddings and nature, so you can easily apply them to any of your photos for a clean Tortured Poets-style look. Each preset focuses on adding a timeless sepia tone to bring the timeless vintage look of Taylor’s latest album to your photos. Try out the preset pack to blend your photos with the a sharp, clean and airy approach to the Tortured Poets look.
Vintage & Grainy Monochrome Lightroom Preset
This versatile preset for Lightroom desktop and mobile applies a bold black and white edit to your photos, elevated with a grainy film texture that makes your scenes feel mysterious. The key feature in this one is darkened yet soft glow — try subtly increasing it while lowering contrast to get the perfect Tortured Poets look. Ideal for Swifties looking to combine their photos with the album’s vibes.
Ballet Aesthetic Desaturated Lightroom Presets
Of course the world of ballet would deliver the ideal preset pack to give photos a similar Tortured Poets Department finish. This 10 Lightroom preset pack for desktop and mobile offers a soft and moody colors that finish with a grey pastel look, perfectly recreating the melancholic vibes of the album. These presets do leave colors in your photos, so you’ll need to adjust the saturation down to zero, and reduce your clarity to perfectly match the look to the album’s artwork. Give it a try!
Monochrome Sepia Lightroom & Photoshop Presets
This collection of 10 Lightroom presets is built for desktop, mobile, and even video (with LUTs)! Merge your photos with a clear black and white look with a hint of subtle sepia brown undertones, resulting in a distinct, crisp image quality like Taylor’s Tortured Poets aesthetic. These presets bring a warmer take on the classic monochrome look of vintage photos — try them out for yourself!
Sepia Tones Lightroom Presets
Loaded with 60 Lightroom desktop presets, these presets provide a softly faded sepia color that is perfect for portrait photos, recreating the album artwork’s vibe. The delicate balancing of highlights and shadows creates an airy, ethereal feel, ideal for Swifties or anyone looking to add a vintage touch to their photos.
Sepia Faded VSCO Filter
Preset: DOG1 +7.0
- Exposure: -1.0
- Contrast: +1.0
- Highlights: +9.1
- Shadows: +2.0
- Sharpen: +2.5
- Clarity: +3.0
- Fade: +1.0
Filter by marie
Vintage Fade VSCO Filter
Preset: NC +8.4
- Exposure: -2.7
- Contrast: +4.2
- Highlights: +12.0
- Saturation: -3.9
Filter by mega
Steel Black & White VSCO Filter
Preset: B5 +6
- Contrast: -1.0
- Exposure: -1.0
- Fade: +5.0
Filter by bellafischer
Tortured Poet Sepia Snapseed QR Code
Tortured Poet Monochrome Snapseed QR Code
Which one of these The Tortured Poets Department filters or presets are your favorites? Are there any you think we should add to recreate Taylor’s aesthetic? Let us know in the comments below!
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