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clay pots. With the Subjectbook preset applied.clay pots. Photographed without a preset.
Subjectbook applied to clay pots

Subjects Library

Built for architecture, interiors and property; portrait skin and studio lighting; travel and street; product and materials; sport and action. The subjects inside it are product, interior, urban, portrait and night. The light runs film matte, mid, neutral natural and crisp clean.

Subjectbook Subjects Library is 1,548 presets in 86 collections.

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What it does to a photograph

bridge cables. With the Townscene preset applied.bridge cables. Photographed without a preset.
Townscene applied to bridge cables
bridge cables, graded with Townscene: 58 of this library's 86 collections
newborn hands. With the Facestudy preset applied.newborn hands. Photographed without a preset.
Facestudy applied to newborn hands
newborn hands, graded with Facestudy: 29 of this library's 86 collections
motel door. With the Plumbline preset applied.motel door. Photographed without a preset.
Plumbline applied to motel door
motel door, graded with Plumbline: 17 of this library's 86 collections
bridge cables. With the Facadestone preset applied.bridge cables. Photographed without a preset.
Facadestone applied to bridge cables
bridge cables, graded with Facadestone: 29 of this library's 86 collections
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 86 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 86 collections
alley lines. With the Facadestone preset applied.alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
Facadestone applied to alley lines
alley lines, graded with Facadestone: 29 of this library's 86 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 86 collections
bakery counter. With the Subjectbook preset applied.bakery counter. Photographed without a preset.
Subjectbook applied to bakery counter
bakery counter, graded with Subjectbook: 86 of this library's 86 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 86 collections
alley lines. With the Townscene preset applied.alley lines. Photographed without a preset.
Townscene applied to alley lines
alley lines, graded with Townscene: 58 of this library's 86 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 86 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 86 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 86 collections
street food. With the Townscene preset applied.street food. Photographed without a preset.
Townscene applied to street food
street food, graded with Townscene: 58 of this library's 86 collections
facade grid. With the Plumbline preset applied.facade grid. Photographed without a preset.
Plumbline applied to facade grid
facade grid, graded with Plumbline: 17 of this library's 86 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 86 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 86 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 86 collections
city rooftop. With the Facadestone preset applied.city rooftop. Photographed without a preset.
Facadestone applied to city rooftop
city rooftop, graded with Facadestone: 29 of this library's 86 collections
desk flatlay. With the Sweeptable preset applied.desk flatlay. Photographed without a preset.
Sweeptable applied to desk flatlay
desk flatlay, graded with Sweeptable: 8 of this library's 86 collections
paper desk. With the Sweeptable preset applied.paper desk. Photographed without a preset.
Sweeptable applied to paper desk
paper desk, graded with Sweeptable: 8 of this library's 86 collections
wedding toast. With the Subjectbook preset applied.wedding toast. Photographed without a preset.
Subjectbook applied to wedding toast
wedding toast, graded with Subjectbook: 86 of this library's 86 collections
clay pots. With the Sweeptable preset applied.clay pots. Photographed without a preset.
Sweeptable applied to clay pots
clay pots, graded with Sweeptable: 8 of this library's 86 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 86 collections

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

What is inside, territory by territory

Architecture, interiors and property

17 collections, 306 presets

  • Book Corner
  • Brick Course
  • Bright Room
  • Ceiling Vault
  • Concrete Form
  • Dark Room
  • Door Panel
  • Glass Tower
  • and 9 more

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

Travel and street

12 collections, 216 presets

  • Balloon Dawn
  • Border Road
  • Empty Lot
  • Grain Witness
  • Market Stall
  • Midday Flat
  • New Topographic
  • Souk Lantern
  • and 4 more

Product and materials

11 collections, 198 presets

  • Clear Glass
  • Craft Bench
  • Cut Gemstone
  • Fabric Detail
  • Gold Metal
  • Matte Leather
  • Pale Ceramic
  • Silver Chrome
  • and 3 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

Lens and device character

8 collections, 144 presets

  • Kit Lens
  • Long Lens
  • Mirror Ring
  • Phone Raw
  • Soft Focus
  • Tilt Plane
  • Vintage Uncoated
  • Wide Angle

Wedding, family and events

8 collections, 144 presets

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

Machines and vehicles

5 collections, 90 presets

  • Aircraft Alloy
  • Bike Frame
  • Engine Bay
  • Rail Steel
  • Showroom Paint

Food and hospitality

4 collections, 72 presets

  • Cafe Counter
  • Kitchen Table
  • Plate Daylight
  • Sunday Meal

What contains what

8 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.

Subjectbook · Never run out of looks

Subjectbook makes one kind of light.

1,548 presets across 8 kinds of light is 1,548 presets for never run out of looks photography. Every one of them is below, before you pay for any of it.

What this light does

one frame, 4 presets

Subjects Library, a trail through everything you are handed

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

  1. Clay pots. With the Shutter Gap preset applied.Clay pots. Photographed without a preset.
    Shutter Gap applied to Clay pots

    No. 615

    Shutter Gap

    A hard slat of daylight through half-closed shutters, highest contrast in the set, for graphic light-and-dark frames.

  2. Clay pots. With the Brass Lamp preset applied.Clay pots. Photographed without a preset.
    Brass Lamp applied to Clay pots

    No. 1009

    Brass Lamp

    The working default for a dim interior: shadow lifted hard, highlights pulled off the doorway, warmth kept honest.

  3. Clay pots. With the Wood Bench preset applied.Clay pots. Photographed without a preset.
    Wood Bench applied to Clay pots

    No. 1343

    Wood Bench

    Long benches and communal tables where the far end sits in daylight and the near end under a lamp.

  4. Clay pots. With the Controlled Gloss preset applied.Clay pots. Photographed without a preset.
    Controlled Gloss applied to Clay pots

    No. 1197

    Controlled Gloss

    High-gloss product on black, the strong highlight recovery here, for chrome and piano finishes.

Explore every preset in this pack

4 presets · 4 scenes

4 of the 1,548 presets in this library, on the same four photographs. Nothing below is a sample. Open one and drag.

  1. No. 615Shutter GapA hard slat of daylight through half-closed shutters, highest contrast in the set, for graphic light-and-dark frames.
    Shutter Gap applied to Wedding toast Before: Wedding toast
    Wedding toast
    Shutter Gap applied to Bakery counter Before: Bakery counter
    Bakery counter
    Shutter Gap applied to Clay pots Before: Clay pots
    Clay pots
    Shutter Gap applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

  2. No. 1009Brass LampThe working default for a dim interior: shadow lifted hard, highlights pulled off the doorway, warmth kept honest.
    Brass Lamp applied to Wedding toast Before: Wedding toast
    Wedding toast
    Brass Lamp applied to Bakery counter Before: Bakery counter
    Bakery counter
    Brass Lamp applied to Clay pots Before: Clay pots
    Clay pots
    Brass Lamp applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

  3. No. 1343Wood BenchLong benches and communal tables where the far end sits in daylight and the near end under a lamp.
    Wood Bench applied to Wedding toast Before: Wedding toast
    Wedding toast
    Wood Bench applied to Bakery counter Before: Bakery counter
    Bakery counter
    Wood Bench applied to Clay pots Before: Clay pots
    Clay pots
    Wood Bench applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

  4. No. 1197Controlled GlossHigh-gloss product on black, the strong highlight recovery here, for chrome and piano finishes.
    Controlled Gloss applied to Wedding toast Before: Wedding toast
    Wedding toast
    Controlled Gloss applied to Bakery counter Before: Bakery counter
    Bakery counter
    Controlled Gloss applied to Clay pots Before: Clay pots
    Clay pots
    Controlled Gloss applied to Man portrait Before: Man portrait
    Man portrait

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

Monday is a headshot, Tuesday a warehouse, Wednesday a bicycle. The people collections are filed by the light you set and the skin in front of it, then by the booking: newborn, graduation, ceremony hall, dance floor, the family group in open shade, and sport from the pool deck to the gym with the lamp cast gone. Places run from the bright listing to the museum, with one collection per detail and a street row for faces, tile, rain, markets and souks.

Then the things. Clear Glass renders crystal transparent with the edge masking high. Cut Gemstone keeps the sparkle with a small sharpening radius. Fabric Detail and Woven Wool carry the weave and keep the dyes true by band. Gold Metal and Silver Chrome work one band each so metal reads as metal. Matte Leather keeps the hide deep and the stitch line held; Pale Ceramic takes the blue cast out of white clay. Studio Black crushes the background and holds the edges; Studio Object is the white-sweep baseline. Machines get their own leg: Aircraft Alloy, Bike Frame, Engine Bay, Rail Steel and Showroom Paint, each separating the material from what is behind it.

Food and hospitality cover the cafe counter under mixed light, the home kitchen table, the daylight plate with the whites white, and the Sunday meal warmed generously. The last leg is the glass itself: Kit Lens rebuilds micro-contrast in bundled zooms, Long Lens cuts the telephoto haze, Wide Angle lifts the corners, Phone Raw undoes the factory sharpening, and Tilt Plane, Mirror Ring, Soft Focus and Vintage Uncoated keep each lens's character as the look.

Not on this trail: the exclusive sets, Metal and Glass, Chrome Trim, Dark Plate, Wide Bokeh, Beauty Clean, Swaddle Studio, Pet Portrait, Chalk Hold, Stained Glass, Hotel Lobby and Rooftop View, each sold on one specialist page only. People and Places and the Product Table are the smaller packs inside this one; this library is every subject you are paid for. The outdoors, land, weather, nature and night, is a separate library.

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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 cover landscape and wildlife?

No. This library is the subjects a studio is handed. The outdoors is its own library, and Every Subject holds both.

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 1548 presets from Subjects 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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PresetStacks applied to The toast, filed under keepers

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Openterrain applied to The lake that made you stop walking.

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Dinner out, the way it tasted. With the Townscene preset applied.Dinner out, the way it tasted. Photographed without a preset.
Townscene applied to Dinner out, the way it tasted

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The rooftop hour, kept the way it felt. With the Editbench preset applied.The rooftop hour, kept the way it felt. Photographed without a preset.
Editbench applied to The rooftop hour, kept the way it felt.

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