Adobe Lightroom is an amazing piece of software that can style your images in countless ways; with options to adjust contrast, the tone curve, colors, grain, and so much more!
With all of these options, it can be overwhelming to decide how to style an image. This is one of the many reasons to use Adobe Lightroom presets. Presets are one click styles to apply to your image.
This article has a roundup of 50 of the best Adobe Lightroom presets, all black and white. These presets are saved settings from talented photographers that you can apply to your images with just one click.
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50 Free Black and White Lightroom Presets
1. Elegant B&W 2
Click "Download the free preset."
2. Dark Contrast
3. Free High Contrast Preset
4. Dragan B&W
Link is included in a pack of 3 in the description of the preset.
5. B&W Romance
6. Sharp B&W Preset
7. Instant B&W
8. Old Soul
9. Ksouth's BnW
10. B and W
11. Daybreak - Two Blooms
Included in pack of 2. Email address required.
12. Harvest Moon - Two Blooms
Included in pack of 2. Email address required.
13. Black and White HDR
14. Aged Matte B&W
Click on the "download the preset" link to grab the preset.
15. Sparkling
16. Grunge B&W
Included in large pack of presets; email address required.
17. Aged B&W Print
Email address required.
18. Grit
Pay what you wish; email address required.
19. B&W Infrared
20. Silhouette
21. Fuji Acros 100
Included in large pack of presets.
22. B&W Nights
23. Contrast Preset
24. Cool B&W
25. Grey Gray
26. Naturally B&W
27. Little Rascals B&W
Included in pack of 8; Facebook "like" and email address required.
28. Faux Film X
Included in pack of 10.
29. Mono Fade
30. BW Awesome - Wonderland
Included in pack of 7.
31. Bold and Black
Included in large pack; email address required.
32. Eric Kim Monochrome 1600
Included in pack of 2.
33. Legacy Pro 1600
34. Phottix B&W Portrait
Included in pack of 3; email address required.
35. Faded Film Look
36. Dark B&W Portrait
37. ESP Black and White
Included in pack of 27; checkout required although the presets are free.
38. Aesthetic Artz
Included in pack of 2.
39. B&W Landscape
40. B&W - You Did What? Preset
Included in pack of 7; email address required.
41. BW Dependable - Wonderland
42. LSL B&W Matte
Email address required; included in pack of 3.
43. Pictorial B&W
44. Shuttersweets - Monochromatic
Included in pack of 20; email address required.
45. B&W Infra
46. Silver Screen
47. W - The Quantum Collection
Choose the zero bucks option or pay what you want.
48. LSL B&W Clean
Included in pack of 3; email address required.
49. Warm B&W
50. Ilford Delta
Included in large pack.
Recap & Keep Learning
This article showcases 50 of the best black and white presets, but there's no reason to stop here! If you want to learn more about Adobe Lightroom or Lightroom presets, check out the links below:
Envato Elements has an entire section dedicated to Lightroom presets, including colorful presets not included in this tutorial.
We also recently updated our 100 Free Lightroom Presets article with a huge listing of presets of all types.
The Tuts+ Photo & Video section has an extensive library of Lightroom tutorials to level up your Lightroom skills.
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