People Library, a contact sheet of studies

Skin first, in every light.

People Library is a set of presets for everyone you are paid to photograph: posed in the studio, celebrating in a hall, competing on a track. Works in the free Lightroom app on iPhone and Android, and in Lightroom Classic.

For portrait, wedding, family, school and club photographers.

Get People Library for $449 Enlarge: all 522 presets

Late window light on a face, warmed and lifted, the room left dim.

Small hands, skin kept soft

A weeknight, at the stove

Window light, side on

the sheet

The Contact Sheet

522 presets across 4 territories

Patterns, skin, events, sport. Each row opens to its collections and a few presets on the same faces.

Lighting patterns

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Broad, short, butterfly, clamshell, loop, Rembrandt, split, hard and rim: the skin finished for what you lit.

Broad Short 18 presets
Butterfly Beauty 18 presets
Clamshell Fill 18 presets
Hard Fresnel 18 presets
Loop Standard 18 presets
Rembrandt Key 18 presets
Rim Separation 18 presets
Split Light 18 presets

Graded with People Library: Brow Divide on Small hands, skin kept soft — Brow Divide on Small hands, skin kept soft

Ungraded version of the same scene — Brow Divide on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Brow Divide on A weeknight, at the stove — Brow Divide on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Panel Pair on Small hands, skin kept soft — Panel Pair on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Panel Pair on A weeknight, at the stove — Panel Pair on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Shoulder Rim on Small hands, skin kept soft — Shoulder Rim on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Shoulder Rim on A weeknight, at the stove — Shoulder Rim on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Glass Fresnel on Small hands, skin kept soft — Glass Fresnel on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Glass Fresnel on A weeknight, at the stove — Glass Fresnel on A weeknight, at the stove

Skin

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Dark, pale, studio and window light.

Dark Skin 18 presets
Pale Skin 18 presets
Studio Skin 18 presets
Window Seat 18 presets

Graded with People Library: Sheer Curtain on Small hands, skin kept soft — Sheer Curtain on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Sheer Curtain on A weeknight, at the stove — Sheer Curtain on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Held Bronze on Small hands, skin kept soft — Held Bronze on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Held Bronze on A weeknight, at the stove — Held Bronze on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Plain Wall on Small hands, skin kept soft — Plain Wall on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Plain Wall on A weeknight, at the stove — Plain Wall on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Quiet Blush on Small hands, skin kept soft — Quiet Blush on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Quiet Blush on A weeknight, at the stove — Quiet Blush on A weeknight, at the stove

Wedding and events

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Newborn to graduation, hall to dance floor to stage.

Baby Days 18 presets
Backstage 18 presets
Cap And Gown 18 presets
Ceremony Hall 18 presets
Dance Floor 18 presets
Outdoor Group 18 presets
School Run 18 presets
Stage Face 18 presets

Graded with People Library: Colour Pull on A weeknight, at the stove — Colour Pull on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Colour Pull on Small hands, skin kept soft — Colour Pull on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Coat Peg on Small hands, skin kept soft — Coat Peg on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Coat Peg on A weeknight, at the stove — Coat Peg on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Family Wave on Small hands, skin kept soft — Family Wave on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Family Wave on A weeknight, at the stove — Family Wave on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Programme Card on Small hands, skin kept soft — Programme Card on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Programme Card on A weeknight, at the stove — Programme Card on A weeknight, at the stove

Sport and action

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Pool, pitch, track, gym and arena, the faces still readable.

Arena Sand 18 presets
Concrete Bowl 18 presets
Field Sport 18 presets
Finish Line 18 presets
Indoor Court 18 presets
Pool Deck 18 presets
Track Dust 18 presets
Track Motion 18 presets
Weight Room 18 presets

Graded with People Library: Circuit Pan on Small hands, skin kept soft — Circuit Pan on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Circuit Pan on A weeknight, at the stove — Circuit Pan on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Canter Turn on Small hands, skin kept soft — Canter Turn on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Canter Turn on A weeknight, at the stove — Canter Turn on A weeknight, at the stove

Graded with People Library: Gravel Trap on Small hands, skin kept soft — Gravel Trap on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Gravel Trap on A face by the window — Gravel Trap on A face by the window

Graded with People Library: Rally Stage on Small hands, skin kept soft — Rally Stage on Small hands, skin kept soft

Graded with People Library: Rally Stage on A weeknight, at the stove — Rally Stage on A weeknight, at the stove

The studio collections are filed by the lighting pattern you set: broad and short, butterfly, clamshell, loop, Rembrandt, split, hard fresnel and rim. Each one finishes the skin for that pattern and keeps what you lit, the cheek triangle, the divide down the nose, the edge glow held off clipping.

Skin gets its own row. Dark Skin lifts deep tones without greying them. Pale Skin controls redness and protects the highlights. Studio Skin trims the flush from the modelling lights. Window Seat warms an indoor portrait and leaves the contrast near flat.

Then the days you shoot for other people: newborns in home light, graduations with the gowns kept alive, ceremony halls with the mixed casts neutralised, dance floors with the gel wash tamed, stage faces pulled back toward skin. And sport, from the pool deck to the weight room, with the lamp cast gone and the faces readable at distance.

One download, every sitting. The sheet below shows a few presets from each row, on the same photographs, so you can see the range before you book it.

how it works

Yours in two minutes

Buy the setCheckout takes a card; you get a receipt by email.
Download instantlyThe preset files download right after payment. Re-download any time from your account.
Import to LightroomOpen the files in the free Lightroom app (iOS or Android) or Lightroom Classic. Lightroom saves them as presets automatically.
Tap a presetOne tap applies the full look. Every setting stays editable after.

Single-user license. Yours to use in personal and client work.
No redistribution. Don't resell or share the preset files themselves.
Free app is enough. No Adobe subscription needed for Lightroom mobile.
Keep it forever. Files live in your account for re-download.

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 real 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.

Netzah Elad Topaz, photographer and software builder

get it

Get People Library

People Library

$449

All 522 presets · one-time payment · instant download

Works in the free Lightroom app · keep forever

Instant download after payment. The download link is also sent to your email and stays available in your account.

questions

Asked and Answered

Do the sport presets look after faces too?

Yes. Each sport collection holds the skin band while it corrects the venue: chlorine cyan on the pool deck, strip light in the gym, lamp cast in the arena.

I shoot one lighting pattern all day. Do I need the rest?

No. Pick the collection for the pattern you set and run it across the sitting. The others are there for the day you change the light.

Is this one download or several?

One ZIP, with every collection in its own folder. Import them all, or only the ones you use.

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 522 presets from People 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.

What if it's not for me?

Before your first download we refund, no questions asked. After a download, sales are final except a technical fault we cannot fix or a duplicate charge. Details on the refunds page.