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newborn hands. With the Facestudy preset applied.newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
Facestudy applied to newborn hands

People Library

Built for portrait skin and studio lighting; sport and action; wedding, family and events. The subjects inside it are portrait, sport, night, interior and product. The light runs film matte, mid, neutral natural and crisp clean.

Facestudy People Library is 522 presets in 29 collections.

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  • Format.xmp and .dng
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What it does to a photograph

man portrait. With the Facestudy preset applied.man portrait. Photographed without a preset.
Facestudy applied to man portrait
man portrait, graded with Facestudy: 29 of this library's 29 collections
kitchen cook. With the Facestudy preset applied.kitchen cook. Photographed without a preset.
Facestudy applied to kitchen cook
kitchen cook, graded with Facestudy: 29 of this library's 29 collections
man portrait. With the Keypattern preset applied.man portrait. Photographed without a preset.
Keypattern applied to man portrait
man portrait, graded with Keypattern: 8 of this library's 29 collections
diner booth. With the Aislecard preset applied.diner booth. Photographed without a preset.
Aislecard applied to diner booth
diner booth, graded with Aislecard: 8 of this library's 29 collections
portrait window. With the Keypattern preset applied.portrait window. Photographed without a preset.
Keypattern applied to portrait window
portrait window, graded with Keypattern: 8 of this library's 29 collections
newborn hands. With the Portraitroom preset applied.newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
Portraitroom applied to newborn hands
newborn hands, graded with Portraitroom: 16 of this library's 29 collections
man portrait. With the Portraitroom preset applied.man portrait. Photographed without a preset.
Portraitroom applied to man portrait
man portrait, graded with Portraitroom: 16 of this library's 29 collections
mirror fit. With the Keypattern preset applied.mirror fit. Photographed without a preset.
Keypattern applied to mirror fit
mirror fit, graded with Keypattern: 8 of this library's 29 collections
street food. With the Aislecard preset applied.street food. Photographed without a preset.
Aislecard applied to street food
street food, graded with Aislecard: 8 of this library's 29 collections
portrait window. With the Portraitroom preset applied.portrait window. Photographed without a preset.
Portraitroom applied to portrait window
portrait window, graded with Portraitroom: 16 of this library's 29 collections
wedding toast. With the Aislecard preset applied.wedding toast. Photographed without a preset.
Aislecard applied to wedding toast
wedding toast, graded with Aislecard: 8 of this library's 29 collections

It does not cover architecture, interiors and property; moods and tonal statements; light and weather; workflow and utility bases. Those collections live in other products on this network, and nothing here stands in for them.

What is inside, territory by territory

Portrait skin and studio lighting

12 collections, 216 presets

  • Broad Short
  • Butterfly Beauty
  • Clamshell Fill
  • Dark Skin
  • Hard Fresnel
  • Loop Standard
  • Pale Skin
  • Rembrandt Key
  • and 4 more

Sport and action

9 collections, 162 presets

  • Arena Sand
  • Concrete Bowl
  • Field Sport
  • Finish Line
  • Indoor Court
  • Pool Deck
  • Track Dust
  • Track Motion
  • and 1 more

Wedding, family and events

8 collections, 144 presets

  • Baby Days
  • Backstage
  • Cap And Gown
  • Ceremony Hall
  • Dance Floor
  • Outdoor Group
  • School Run
  • Stage Face

What contains what

3 smaller products are wholly inside this library. Buy this one and you have all of them; buy one of them first and what you paid comes off this price.

This library is itself inside 4 larger libraries.

Facestudy · Portrait skin and studio lighting

Facestudy makes one kind of light.

522 presets across 4 kinds of light is 522 presets for portrait skin and studio lighting photography. Every one of them is below, before you pay for any of it.

What this light does

one frame, 4 presets

People Library, a contact sheet of studies

4 of them, on one photograph. Drag to compare before and after.

  1. Newborn hands. With the Ninety Degree preset applied.Newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
    Ninety Degree applied to Newborn hands

    No. 168

    Ninety Degree

    Split shaping for a key at exactly ninety degrees, the by-the-book placement for this pattern.

  2. Newborn hands. With the Bus Window preset applied.Newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
    Bus Window applied to Newborn hands

    No. 330

    Bus Window

    Through glass on a moving vehicle, highlights recovered so the window does not blow.

  3. Newborn hands. With the Barn Timber preset applied.Newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
    Barn Timber applied to Newborn hands

    No. 376

    Barn Timber

    Old boards behind the action, greens pulled down so painted and weathered wood reads honestly.

  4. Newborn hands. With the Quiet Blush preset applied.Newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
    Quiet Blush applied to Newborn hands

    No. 123

    Quiet Blush

    Pale skin: whites pulled down hard, for a fair subject in white clothing (exposure -0.01, contrast +8, orange sat -7, orange lum +0).

Explore every preset in this pack

4 presets · 4 scenes

4 of the 522 presets in this library, on the same four photographs. Nothing below is a sample. Open one and drag.

  1. No. 168Ninety DegreeSplit shaping for a key at exactly ninety degrees, the by-the-book placement for this pattern.
    Ninety Degree applied to Newborn hands Before: Newborn hands
    Newborn hands
    Ninety Degree applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Ninety Degree applied to Kitchen cook Before: Kitchen cook
    Kitchen cook
    Ninety Degree applied to Portrait window Before: Portrait window
    Portrait window

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Ninety Degree. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  2. No. 330Bus WindowThrough glass on a moving vehicle, highlights recovered so the window does not blow.
    Bus Window applied to Newborn hands Before: Newborn hands
    Newborn hands
    Bus Window applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Bus Window applied to Kitchen cook Before: Kitchen cook
    Kitchen cook
    Bus Window applied to Portrait window Before: Portrait window
    Portrait window

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Bus Window. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  3. No. 376Barn TimberOld boards behind the action, greens pulled down so painted and weathered wood reads honestly.
    Barn Timber applied to Newborn hands Before: Newborn hands
    Newborn hands
    Barn Timber applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Barn Timber applied to Kitchen cook Before: Kitchen cook
    Kitchen cook
    Barn Timber applied to Portrait window Before: Portrait window
    Portrait window

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Barn Timber. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  4. No. 123Quiet BlushPale skin: whites pulled down hard, for a fair subject in white clothing (exposure -0.01, contrast +8, orange sat -7, orange lum +0).
    Quiet Blush applied to Newborn hands Before: Newborn hands
    Newborn hands
    Quiet Blush applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Quiet Blush applied to Kitchen cook Before: Kitchen cook
    Kitchen cook
    Quiet Blush applied to Portrait window Before: Portrait window
    Portrait window

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Quiet Blush. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

The studio collections are filed by the lighting pattern you set: broad and short, butterfly, clamshell, loop, Rembrandt, split, hard fresnel and rim. Each one finishes the skin for that pattern and keeps what you lit, the cheek triangle, the divide down the nose, the edge glow held off clipping.

Skin gets its own row. Dark Skin lifts deep tones without greying them. Pale Skin controls redness and protects the highlights. Studio Skin trims the flush from the modelling lights. Window Seat warms an indoor portrait and leaves the contrast near flat.

Then the days you shoot for other people: newborns in home light, graduations with the gowns kept alive, ceremony halls with the mixed casts neutralised, dance floors with the gel wash tamed, stage faces pulled back toward skin. And sport, from the pool deck to the weight room, with the lamp cast gone and the faces readable at distance.

One download, every sitting. The sheet below shows a few presets from each row, on the same photographs, so you can see the range before you book it.

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how it works

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  2. Step 2

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  3. Step 3

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  4. Step 4

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    One tap on any photo. Every slider stays yours to adjust.

Yours to keep, for personal and client work. Please do not share the files. The license

Netzah Elad Topaz, the photographer who makes these presets

the maker

Why I Make These

I am Netzah Elad Topaz. I take photographs and I build software, and the two keep leading me back to the same problem. You were there. The light was doing something you will not see again. Then the photo comes back flat, and it is not what you were looking at.

Closing that gap is the whole job. Every preset here is built from Adobe defaults by hand, with a written note for what it should do to a picture, and it is judged on photographs before it ships. Nothing is a filter dropped on top of your work.

What I want is simple. You open a photo you almost gave up on, you tap once, and there it is: the day you remember, not the file your camera handed you. That is worth doing properly.

Questions, answered

Do the sport presets look after faces too?

Yes. Each sport collection holds the skin band while it corrects the venue: chlorine cyan on the pool deck, strip light in the gym, lamp cast in the arena.

I shoot one lighting pattern all day. Do I need the rest?

No. Pick the collection for the pattern you set and run it across the sitting. The others are there for the day you change the light.

Do these work in the free Lightroom app?

Yes. Import the .xmp files in the free Lightroom app on iPhone or Android, no subscription needed. They also work in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom on desktop.

What exactly do I get?

All 522 presets from People Library as .xmp files in an instant ZIP download. The link also lands in your email, and the purchase stays in your account so you can re-download any time.

How do I install them?

Two minutes: unzip, then import inside Lightroom. The step-by-step guide covers iPhone, Android, and desktop.

Can I use them for client work?

Yes. The single-user license covers personal and commercial photography. The one thing you can't do is share or resell the preset files themselves.

Can I tweak a preset after applying it?

Always. A preset is a starting point; every slider stays yours to adjust.

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Portraitroom applied to Window light, indexed

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Reeltint applied to Cafe window, one tap later

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