- 6 base presets designed to tackle all lighting scenarios
- 10 powerful masks to refine your images
- Contrast and Exposure modifiers so you can quickly fine-tune your edits
- My signature toolkit with modifiers to adjust color grading, grain, sharpening, and more
- PDF Installation and Editing Guide
- Instructional Installation and Edit with Me Videos
These Lightroom Classic (desktop) presets are designed for landscape and adventure photographers who love capturing the beauty of mountain environments. They include versatile options for different weather, lighting conditions, and times of day, plus tools like exposure modifiers and custom masks to make creating stunning, natural edits effortless.
Your Lightroom Classic Preset Pack Includes:
Christine Madeux
Presets
These presets are for you if…
You value a streamlined editing process
These presets will help you achieve polished edits in a variety of lighting scenarios and landscapes.
My presets will help you save time bringing your mountain and adventure photos to life, so you can spend more time outside creating.
You want your images to stand out with subtle but powerful edits that make up a cohesive portfolio
These presets are designed to be true-to-color, ensuring that the natural beauty of mountain landscapes is enhanced, not distorted, helping you preserve the authenticity of nature.
You want your edits to capture the true essence of the scenes you photograph
These presets are for you if…
You value a streamlined editing process
These presets will help you achieve polished edits in a variety of lighting scenarios and landscapes.
My presets will help you save time bringing your mountain and adventure photos to life, so you can spend more time outside creating.
You want your images to stand out with subtle but powerful edits that make up a cohesive portfolio
These presets are designed to be true-to-color, ensuring that the natural beauty of mountain landscapes is enhanced, not distorted, helping you preserve the authenticity of nature.
You want your edits to capture the true essence of the scenes you photograph
See the Presets in Action
CM1- Cloudy is the ideal preset for overcast, moody days and party cloudy conditions. This preset has moderately desaturated colors, while still staying true toned. The shadows and midtones are also gently warmed up.
CM1 – Cloudy
CM2- Harsh Light is a great base for all your daytime adventures. This preset aims to soften harsh lighting, tame bright yellows and greens, and warm the midtones and highlights.
CM2 – Harsh Light
CM3- Harsh Light (desaturated +warm) is best used on mid-day landscapes shot in direct sun. The primary difference between this and CM-2 is that the blues have been deepened and further desaturated.
CM3- Harsh Light
(desaturated + warm)
CM4- Golden Hour (backlit) is great for glowy images taken at sunrise and sunset as well as soft dreamy light in the morning and evening. This preset is vibrant, and adds warmth to both the shadows and midtones.
CM4- Golden Hour
(backlit)
CM5- Golden Hour (direct light) is the perfect preset to bring out golden alpenglow tones during sunrise and sunset. This preset lightly boosts the shadows, adds warmth to the shadows and midtones, and also adds saturation, especially in the oranges.
CM5- Golden Hour
(direct light)
CM6- Blue Hour is my go-to preset for mountainscapes softly lit just after the sun sets below the horizon. This preset has saturated colors, bringing out the blues and purples of twilight, while still feeling warm in the shadows and midtones.
CM6- Blue Hour
Edit Alongside Me
A walkthrough guide of how I edit using the Christine Madeux preset pack. In it, I include how I use brushes and modifiers to create a signature look.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What camera systems do your presets work with?
01.
These presets are designed to be versatile and work on all professional camera RAWs. I’ve tested these extensively on Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, and Olympus files. I shoot on Sony.
What software do I need to use these presets?
02.
My presets are specifically designed to be used with Lightroom Classic (desktop) and work best when applied to RAW files from professional cameras. This ensures you get the most out of the presets, as they are optimized for the depth and flexibility that RAW files provide.
What type of photos do these presets work best with?
03.
These presets are designed specifically for landscape and outdoor adventure photographers, with a focus on capturing the beauty of mountain environments.
Based on my own experience photographing in the Alps, these presets are crafted to enhance natural tones, maintain true-to-color edits, and bring out the unique light found in mountain settings.
If you know me from my wedding work, I do not use the base presets for my wedding work, but I do consistently use the modifiers and brushes.
Will these presets work in different lighting conditions?
04.
Yes, absolutely! My preset pack is designed to handle a variety of lighting conditions you might encounter while shooting in the mountains. It includes six different base presets tailored for different weather conditions and times of day—whether you’re shooting during golden hour, under dramatic clouds, or in bright sunlight.
In addition to the base presets, the pack comes with exposure and contrast modifiers to help fine-tune your edits, as well as 10 powerful masks for precise adjustments. This gives you the flexibility to adapt your edits to any lighting scenario and create stunning, balanced images no matter the conditions.
Are these presets optimized for mobile editing?
05.
At this time, these presets are only available for Lightroom Classic (desktop). In the future, I hope to release a mobile version.
Do you offer refunds if I don’t like the presets?
06.
Due to the digital nature of Lightroom presets, all sales are final, and I’m unable to offer refunds.
However, I want you to feel confident in your purchase! That’s why I provide detailed descriptions and sample images to help you understand how the presets work and the type of results you can achieve. I also include an ‘’edit with me’’ video you can check out here.
