The Out There Presets
Make it look
like it felt.
Six Lightroom looks, built on real light.
Every one of these was made on my own frames — the Southwest, New Zealand, Alaska, the Tetons — and tuned to hold up on the light you actually shoot out there: harsh noon, near-dark, alpenglow. Mobile and desktop, in one folder. Install once, tap it on, adjust to taste.
Lightroom Mobile + desktop .xmp · instant download
Free, like everything I make. If you pay something, that’s what keeps them free — these presets, the weekly essays, whatever comes next.
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Wonder Lake, Alaska — shot with Frontier Glow.
Before the edit
Built out there,
for out there.
Most preset packs are tuned on studio light and fall apart the first time you hand them a hazy desert noon or a fjord at dusk. These went the other way: each look started on a real frame from a real trip, and got adjusted until it held on the hard light too. They’re the edits I actually run — the same ones on every photo across my guides and my feed.
What’s inside
Six looks,
one folder.
Every pair below is the same raw frame twice — straight off the camera, then with one tap of the preset. Nothing else touched.
Pacific Mist
The lightest hand of the set. Cools the balance and clears haze without washing the greens out. My default for bright days and open country.
Cascade Light
The natural one. True greens and honest skin tones, for overcast hills, forest, and portraits where you don’t want a heavy cast.
Sedona Fade
Warm and matte, faded blacks — the red-rock-and-gold-grass look of the Southwest.
Frontier Glow
Leans all the way into a pink-and-purple alpenglow. Made on an Alaska lake at the end of the day.
Milford Dusk
For light that’s nearly gone. Holds a cold, desaturated fjord-dusk mood and pulls detail back out of the shadows instead of crushing them.
B&W Film
Black and white with grain, for the frames where color isn’t the point.
Worth knowing
A starting point,
with honest limits.
A preset gets you most of the way in one tap, and then the frame is yours. Every photo comes in at a different exposure, and different cameras render color differently, so expect to nudge exposure and white balance to land it. That’s normal, and the pack is built to take it.
They’re for personal use: edit your own photos, post them anywhere you like. Reselling or redistributing the presets themselves isn’t part of the deal.
Before you buy
Questions.
What exactly do I get? +
All six presets in one instant download: Lightroom Mobile versions plus desktop .xmp files, with a short install note. Buy once, use them on every photo you take after.
Do they work in the free Lightroom app? +
Yes. The mobile versions run in the free Lightroom Mobile app — no subscription needed. The .xmp files are for Lightroom on desktop.
How do I install them? +
An install note comes in the download. Mobile takes a couple of minutes the first time; desktop is an import you do once. After that each look is a single tap.
Will my photos look exactly like yours? +
They’ll land in the same world, and then your light gets a say. Expect to nudge exposure and white balance per photo — that’s the design, so the look bends to your frame instead of fighting it.
Why is it free? +
Because I want it read more than I want it sold. The Out There Club is \$7 a month — members get the Long Letter, Pages, and the archive. That keeps every guide name-your-price for everyone else. Pay something at checkout if you want; it goes to the same place.
One last thing
Bring the day home with you.
The frames you carry back are how the trip keeps living after the drive is over. These are the tools I use to make mine feel the way the day did. Take them, free, and go shoot.
If you pay something, it keeps everything on this shelf free for whoever needs it.
Out There Presets
Lightroom Mobile + desktop .xmp · instant download
Free, like everything I make. If you pay something, that’s what keeps them free — these presets, the weekly essays, whatever comes next.
Every example on this page is my own frame, edited with the exact preset it’s named for. What you see is what installs.
— Bryce
More from Out There
The rest of the shelf.
The presets edit the trip. These are the guides that get you out on it.
The Adventure Blueprint
Free download →
The California Guide
Free download →
The Autumn Guide
Free download →Guide
The New Zealand Guide
Coming soonGuide
The Winter Guide
Coming soon