Film and Darkroom, a folio in two rooms

The negative first. Then the print.

Film and Darkroom holds the film archive and the darkroom in one folio: negative, slide, instant and cine colour, then paper, toner and press mono. Works in the free Lightroom app on iPhone and Android, and in Lightroom Classic.

For film-look, cinematic and mono creators who want the whole shelf and the whole darkroom.

Get Film and Darkroom for $399 Open: all 288 presets

The alley on a working print. Firm blacks, clarity up, the grain left in.

The first room is the archive. Colour Neg gives a file the character of negative stock: warm midtones, a soft shoulder, cyan settling into the shadows. Slide Film runs the other way, steep tone, dense blacks, loud clean colour. Rich Print sits between them, a dense darkroom print with the reds deep and nothing clipped. Instant Pack lifts the toe and lets the tone go pale and green-warm; Matte Finish is the same lift as a pure ladder, no colour touched.

Cinema and Snapshot are the archive's far ends. Anamorphic Wide is the cool low-contrast look of cine glass, blacks lifted, a blue cast in the flare. Bleach Pass strips the colour to an orange residue under hard silver contrast. Snapshot Vernacular is deliberately artless: on-camera flash, a magenta tint, the hot reds of a cheap print.

The second room is the darkroom, and every collection in it converts to mono first. Contact Print is the honest proof sheet. Platinum Print is long-scale with no true black and warm highlights. Plate Room is the soft filing print with the black point lifted. Then the toners: Copper Wash puts copper highlights against blue shadows, Selenium Tone cools the shadows blue-grey and firms the blacks. Silver Halide is the classic gelatin print, full range and quiet grain. Press Black is agency mono at working contrast; Grain Report pushes heavy grain over a muted palette for reportage weight.

Not in the vault: the exclusive sets sold by the network's specialist brands. Cross Signal, the cross-processed colour, Faded Print and Old Stock, and the mono specialists, Graphic Black, Orthochromatic, Sepia Archive and the Infrared Look, each live on one page only. The Film Archive and the Darkroom are sold on their own as smaller packs; this folio is both rooms together.

contents

The Two Rooms

288 presets across 5 territories

Archive and darkroom, chapter by chapter. Each opens to its collections and a few presets on the same photographs.

The Negative and the Slide

chapter

Warm midtones under a soft shoulder, steep reversal tone, dense darkroom-print colour.

Colour Neg 18 presets
Slide Film 18 presets
Rich Print 18 presets

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Rich Paper on A face in the street, on emulsion — Rich Paper on A face in the street, on emulsion

Ungraded version of the same scene — Rich Paper on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Rich Paper on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — Rich Paper on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Open Roll on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — Open Roll on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Open Roll on A face in the street, on emulsion — Open Roll on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Punched Colour on A face in the street, on emulsion — Punched Colour on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Punched Colour on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — Punched Colour on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Whole Frame on A face in the street, on emulsion — Whole Frame on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Whole Frame on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — Whole Frame on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

Instant and Matte

chapter

Lifted toe, pale flat tone, and a matte ladder with no colour work at all.

Instant Pack 18 presets
Matte Finish 18 presets

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Paper Stock on A face, on paper — Paper Stock on A face, on paper

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Paper Stock on A face in the street, on emulsion — Paper Stock on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Deep Fade on A face in the street, on emulsion — Deep Fade on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Deep Fade on The alley, printed — Deep Fade on The alley, printed

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Powder Coat on A face in the street, on emulsion — Powder Coat on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Powder Coat on A face, on paper — Powder Coat on A face, on paper

Cinema and Snapshot

chapter

Cine glass with lifted blacks, bleach-bypass silver, the artless flash snapshot.

Anamorphic Wide 18 presets
Bleach Pass 18 presets
Snapshot Vernacular 18 presets

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Steel Bleach on A face in the street, on emulsion — Steel Bleach on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Steel Bleach on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — Steel Bleach on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Bar Flare on A face in the street, on emulsion — Bar Flare on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Bar Flare on A face, on paper — Bar Flare on A face, on paper

Graded with Film and Darkroom: School Gym on A face in the street, on emulsion — School Gym on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: School Gym on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — School Gym on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

The Papers

chapter

Proof-sheet mono, long-scale platinum, a soft print for filing.

Contact Print 18 presets
Platinum Print 18 presets
Plate Room 18 presets

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Mount Board on A face in the street, on emulsion — Mount Board on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Mount Board on The alley, printed — Mount Board on The alley, printed

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Contact Frame on A face in the street, on emulsion — Contact Frame on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Contact Frame on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder — Contact Frame on A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Margin Note on A face in the street, on emulsion — Margin Note on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Margin Note on The alley, printed — Margin Note on The alley, printed

Toners and the Press

chapter

Copper over blue, cool selenium, agency black, silver gelatin, pushed grain.

Copper Wash 18 presets
Selenium Tone 18 presets
Press Black 18 presets
Silver Halide 18 presets
Grain Report 18 presets

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Museum Grade on A face in the street, on emulsion — Museum Grade on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Museum Grade on The alley, printed — Museum Grade on The alley, printed

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Full Bleed on A face in the street, on emulsion — Full Bleed on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Full Bleed on The alley, printed — Full Bleed on The alley, printed

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Ash Yard on A face in the street, on emulsion — Ash Yard on A face in the street, on emulsion

Graded with Film and Darkroom: Ash Yard on The alley, printed — Ash Yard on The alley, printed

open

The same minute, kept

A face in the street, on emulsion

A booth by the window, on a soft shoulder

A face, on paper

how it works

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No redistribution. Don't resell or share the preset files themselves.
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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

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Film and Darkroom

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questions

Asked and Answered

Are the darkroom collections true black and white?

Yes. Every darkroom collection converts to greyscale first, then sets its paper, toner or press contrast. The toners add colour back only through the split, copper or selenium, and every slider stays editable.

Which film collection is the everyday one?

Colour Neg. Its middle members warm the midtones and soften the shoulder and little else. Slide Film is the loud one, for clean exposures that can hold a steep curve.

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 288 presets from Film and Darkroom 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.