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alley lines. With the Filmvault preset applied.alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
Filmvault applied to alley lines

Film and Darkroom

Built for black and white editorial; film and cinematic. The subjects inside it are film, monochrome, general, documentary and interior. The light runs mid, film matte, monochrome and high key.

Filmvault Film and Darkroom is 288 presets in 16 collections.

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What it does to a photograph

man portrait. With the Barytaprint preset applied.man portrait. Photographed without a preset.
Barytaprint applied to man portrait
man portrait, graded with Barytaprint: 8 of this library's 16 collections
alley lines. With the Barytaprint preset applied.alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
Barytaprint applied to alley lines
alley lines, graded with Barytaprint: 8 of this library's 16 collections
diner booth. With the Filmvault preset applied.diner booth. Photographed without a preset.
Filmvault applied to diner booth
diner booth, graded with Filmvault: 16 of this library's 16 collections
bridge cables. With the Barytaprint preset applied.bridge cables. Photographed without a preset.
Barytaprint applied to bridge cables
bridge cables, graded with Barytaprint: 8 of this library's 16 collections
alley lines. With the Stockshelf preset applied.alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
Stockshelf applied to alley lines
alley lines, graded with Stockshelf: 8 of this library's 16 collections
street food. With the Stockshelf preset applied.street food. Photographed without a preset.
Stockshelf applied to street food
street food, graded with Stockshelf: 8 of this library's 16 collections
park picnic. With the Stockshelf preset applied.park picnic. Photographed without a preset.
Stockshelf applied to park picnic
park picnic, graded with Stockshelf: 8 of this library's 16 collections
street food. With the Filmvault preset applied.street food. Photographed without a preset.
Filmvault applied to street food
street food, graded with Filmvault: 16 of this library's 16 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

Black and white editorial

8 collections, 144 presets

  • Contact Print
  • Copper Wash
  • Grain Report
  • Plate Room
  • Platinum Print
  • Press Black
  • Selenium Tone
  • Silver Halide

Film and cinematic

8 collections, 144 presets

  • Anamorphic Wide
  • Bleach Pass
  • Colour Neg
  • Instant Pack
  • Matte Finish
  • Rich Print
  • Slide Film
  • Snapshot Vernacular

What contains what

2 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 2 larger libraries.

Filmvault · Film and cinematic

Filmvault makes one kind of light.

288 presets across 5 kinds of light is 288 presets for film and cinematic photography. Every one of them is below, before you pay for any of it.

What this light does

one frame, 4 presets

Film and Darkroom, a folio in two rooms

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

  1. Alley lines. With the Second Shift preset applied.Alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
    Second Shift applied to Alley lines

    No. 242

    Second Shift

    Late-shift workplace mono, dim rooms pushed to a hard readable print.

  2. Alley lines. With the Matte Rag preset applied.Alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
    Matte Rag applied to Alley lines

    No. 231

    Matte Rag

    Long scale with dehaze negative, a deliberately airless matte surface look.

  3. Alley lines. With the Warm Darkroom preset applied.Alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
    Warm Darkroom applied to Alley lines

    No. 107

    Warm Darkroom

    The warmest global hue here over strong saturation.

  4. Alley lines. With the Deep Fade preset applied.Alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
    Deep Fade applied to Alley lines

    No. 64

    Deep Fade

    The far end of the envelope, flat and lightly saturated together.

Explore every preset in this pack

4 presets · 4 scenes

4 of the 288 presets in this library, on the same four photographs. Nothing below is a sample. Open one and drag.

  1. No. 242Second ShiftLate-shift workplace mono, dim rooms pushed to a hard readable print.
    Second Shift applied to Street food Before: Street food
    Street food
    Second Shift applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Second Shift applied to Diner booth Before: Diner booth
    Diner booth
    Second Shift applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

  2. No. 231Matte RagLong scale with dehaze negative, a deliberately airless matte surface look.
    Matte Rag applied to Street food Before: Street food
    Street food
    Matte Rag applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Matte Rag applied to Diner booth Before: Diner booth
    Diner booth
    Matte Rag applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

  3. No. 107Warm DarkroomThe warmest global hue here over strong saturation.
    Warm Darkroom applied to Street food Before: Street food
    Street food
    Warm Darkroom applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Warm Darkroom applied to Diner booth Before: Diner booth
    Diner booth
    Warm Darkroom applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

  4. No. 64Deep FadeThe far end of the envelope, flat and lightly saturated together.
    Deep Fade applied to Street food Before: Street food
    Street food
    Deep Fade applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Deep Fade applied to Diner booth Before: Diner booth
    Diner booth
    Deep Fade applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

The first room is the archive. Colour Neg gives a file the character of negative stock: warm midtones, a soft shoulder, cyan settling into the shadows. Slide Film runs the other way, steep tone, dense blacks, loud clean colour. Rich Print sits between them, a dense darkroom print with the reds deep and nothing clipped. Instant Pack lifts the toe and lets the tone go pale and green-warm; Matte Finish is the same lift as a pure ladder, no colour touched.

Cinema and Snapshot are the archive's far ends. Anamorphic Wide is the cool low-contrast look of cine glass, blacks lifted, a blue cast in the flare. Bleach Pass strips the colour to an orange residue under hard silver contrast. Snapshot Vernacular is deliberately artless: on-camera flash, a magenta tint, the hot reds of a cheap print.

The second room is the darkroom, and every collection in it converts to mono first. Contact Print is the honest proof sheet. Platinum Print is long-scale with no true black and warm highlights. Plate Room is the soft filing print with the black point lifted. Then the toners: Copper Wash puts copper highlights against blue shadows, Selenium Tone cools the shadows blue-grey and firms the blacks. Silver Halide is the classic gelatin print, full range and quiet grain. Press Black is agency mono at working contrast; Grain Report pushes heavy grain over a muted palette for reportage weight.

Not in the vault: the exclusive sets sold by the network's specialist brands. Cross Signal, the cross-processed colour, Faded Print and Old Stock, and the mono specialists, Graphic Black, Orthochromatic, Sepia Archive and the Infrared Look, each live on one page only. The Film Archive and the Darkroom are sold on their own as smaller packs; this folio is both rooms together.

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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

Are the darkroom collections true black and white?

Yes. Every darkroom collection converts to greyscale first, then sets its paper, toner or press contrast. The toners add colour back only through the split, copper or selenium, and every slider stays editable.

Which film collection is the everyday one?

Colour Neg. Its middle members warm the midtones and soften the shoulder and little else. Slide Film is the loud one, for clean exposures that can hold a steep curve.

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 288 presets from Film and Darkroom 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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Stockshelf applied to Golden afternoon, found in an ordinary one

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