It’s no secret that food photos look very beautiful against a dark background, but this is only if the color correction is correct. Our DARK FOOD preset is perfect for you if you don’t know how to transform food photos yourself and want to learn how to do it, for example. You have several options: you can repeat the creation of the preset after us using the screenshots, or download the preset for free from our website. The preset is available in the universal DNG format.
You can choose the option that is better for you below
- You can follow this step-by-step guide to create a preset
- You can edit photos by yourself, watching our videos
- You can download our presets for free, but for this you need to carefully watch the video and remember the password (****) for downloading the preset in DNG format. Attention! The password appears only if you watch the video on YouTube, on this website (only on computer’s browsers) or on YouTube app.
- You can also buy set of presets like this. Look at the items down below
How to create DARK FOOD Preset for mobile Lightroom | Tutorial
For Dark Food Preset, use photos with food. We recommend choosing photos with a dark background, so on a dark background, your food with Dark Food Preset will look amazing.
1. Choose your photo
We chose a light photo with a brown background. How to add a photo, you can see here.
2. Light correction
We will be creating a dark, contrasting preset for food photos. To create the contrast preset, we will use the default light settings, and use a white curve, where we darken the dark tones, lighten the midtones and whites.
3. Color correction
We add vibrance, lower saturation a little, and adjust the colors a little.
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4. Effects editing
Add clarity, dehaze, vignette. We make the details in the photo more expressive and darken the photo with the vignette function.
5. Preset is ready
Our preset for creating dark, contrasting food photos is ready.
7. Save your preset
Don’t forget to save the preset, for further use the presets in one click on your photos.
If you’re looking for dark food photography presets, you’ve come to the right place. On our site there are several presets for food photos in DNG format. And our presets are free to download.
Watch video how to create Dark Food preset | Tutorial
Download the Preset
To download the Preset for free you need to have a password which appears twice on the top right corner during the video