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A fictional motorcyclist in a leather jacket stopped at a mountain pass overlook, bike in the foreground, hazy valley. With the Mono Film preset applied.A fictional motorcyclist in a leather jacket stopped at a mountain pass overlook, bike in the foreground, hazy valley. Photographed without a preset.
Mono Film applied to A fictional motorcyclist in a leather jacket stopped at a mountain pass overlook, bike in the foreground, hazy valley

Grain 400 Mono

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  • Presets10
  • Styleblack and white, mono, grain
  • Works inLightroom desktop and mobile
  • Format.xmp and .dng

Mono Film · mono

Mono Film makes one kind of light.

Converts a frame to classic 400-speed black and white: visible grain, a full tonal range, blacks that hold and whites that keep texture.

Grain 400 Mono is 10 presets for mono photography. Every one of them is below, before you pay for any of it.

About this pack

Grain 400 Mono is the roll everyone shot. Grain sits between 12 and 30, contrast between 10 and 35, and the blacks are held with a lift of no more than 8, so the frame has the full range of a well-exposed negative printed on normal paper. Highlights keep their texture. It is the neutral centre of the brand: Hard 400 goes harder, Soft 400 goes softer, Street 400 goes darker. If you buy one black and white pack and want it to work on everything, this is that pack.

The grain 400 line is the everyday silver film: visible grain, a full tonal range, blacks that hold and whites that keep texture. It is the reportage paper, and it is where most people should start, because it flatters nothing and ruins nothing.

Every preset ships as XMP for Lightroom Classic and desktop and as DNG for the free Lightroom mobile app. Convert one frame, sync the rest, and the set prints as one run. The grain is real grain, added after the conversion, so it sits in the tone and not on top of it.

  • Grain 12 to 30 with contrast 10 to 35, the well-exposed negative on normal paper
  • Black lift capped at 8 and highlight safety kept, the full tonal range
  • XMP and DNG in one download: Lightroom Classic, desktop and the free mobile app
  • One paper across the set, so a whole roll batch-edits and reads as one print run

everyday black and white: street, travel, people, anything shot in decent light

The look is inspired by classic 400-speed black-and-white films such as Kodak Tri-X and Ilford HP5 Plus. This product is not made, licensed or endorsed by Kodak or Harman Technology. Inspired by the look of classic film. Not made, licensed or endorsed by the film's maker.

See the light change

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The same frame, one tap apart. Drag any handle and the scene goes back to the way it looked before Mono Film touched it.

Beach family. With the Mono Film preset applied.Beach family. Photographed without a preset.
Mono Film applied to Beach family
Beach family
A busy market crowd from above, daylight. With the Mono Film preset applied.A busy market crowd from above, daylight. Photographed without a preset.
Mono Film applied to A busy market crowd from above, daylight
A busy market crowd from above, daylight
The alley says more in ink. With the Mono Film preset applied.The alley says more in ink. Photographed without a preset.
Mono Film applied to The alley says more in ink
The alley says more in ink

Explore every preset in this pack

10 presets · 4 scenes

Every preset in the pack is here, on the same four photographs. Nothing below is a sample. Open one and drag.

  1. No. 01Iron Sky
    Iron Sky applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Iron Sky applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Iron Sky applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Iron Sky applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  2. No. 02Mile Zero Mono
    Mile Zero Mono applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Mile Zero Mono applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Mile Zero Mono applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Mile Zero Mono applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  3. No. 03Pine Stand
    Pine Stand applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Pine Stand applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Pine Stand applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Pine Stand applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  4. No. 04Heather Slope
    Heather Slope applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Heather Slope applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Heather Slope applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Heather Slope applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  5. No. 05Bromide Paper
    Bromide Paper applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Bromide Paper applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Bromide Paper applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Bromide Paper applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  6. No. 06Silver Bath
    Silver Bath applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Silver Bath applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Silver Bath applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Silver Bath applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  7. No. 07Bold Ink
    Bold Ink applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Bold Ink applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Bold Ink applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Bold Ink applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  8. No. 08Late Edition
    Late Edition applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Late Edition applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Late Edition applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Late Edition applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  9. No. 09Night Desk
    Night Desk applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Night Desk applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Night Desk applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Night Desk applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

  10. No. 10Drystone Wall
    Drystone Wall applied to Alley lines Before: Alley lines
    Alley lines
    Drystone Wall applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait
    Drystone Wall applied to Market crowd Before: Market crowd
    Market crowd
    Drystone Wall applied to Motorcycle pass Before: Motorcycle pass
    Motorcycle pass

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

Mono Film is silver. Every preset converts to black and white and then makes a decision: how much grain, how hard the contrast, whether the blacks sit on the floor or float, whether the paper is neutral, warm or cold. Its dialect is the darkroom and the newsroom: reportage, tone, grain, paper. It runs four lines, grain 400, pushed 3200, matte editorial and toned, and every product says which paper it prints on. There is no colour here and nothing soft that did not mean to be.

Every pack here is its own product with its own page, so you buy the one look you need, and a larger pack or the family collection is always one step up from it.

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how it works

  1. Step 1

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  2. Step 2

    Download

    The zip downloads right away, and a copy lands in your email.

  3. Step 3

    Import

    Add the presets to Lightroom in a minute.

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  4. Step 4

    Tap

    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

Does it work in Lightroom Classic, Lightroom desktop and the free mobile app?

Yes. Every preset ships as XMP for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom desktop and as DNG for the free Lightroom mobile app on iPhone and Android. Import once, apply with one tap, batch the rest.

Is it safe on skin tones?

This set is built for the scene first, not skin first. It will not wreck a face, but for a people-first edit use Portrait 400 Mono. In black and white, skin safety means the face keeps its brightness relative to the frame and the red channel does not go muddy.

How strong is the effect?

Clear. Every preset here scores 5 or higher on our 0 to 10 transformation scale, so the change shows on the first tap. Pull Amount down in the preset panel to soften it, or stack it under a lighter sibling.

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 10 presets from Grain 400 Mono 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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Reeltint applied to Cafe window, one tap later

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Roamhue applied to The rooftop hour, kept the way it felt.

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Savoryhue applied to The croissants look warm again.

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Mossgrade applied to The gate, the field, the green done right

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