Moody Cinematic — 10 Lightroom Presets & LUTs

Moody Cinematic is a set of dramatic grades for night scenes, city streets, interiors and portraits with atmosphere. Looks deepen shadows, cool or warm the midtones and pull saturation where it distracts, borrowing the colour choices of modern film and television.

The pack spans cool night blues, the classic teal and orange split, desaturated drama, neon magenta dusk and a warm ember grade, each as an XMP preset and a matching LUT for video.

• Night, street and urban photography
• Music, fashion and editorial shoots
• Short films, reels and music videos
• Moody interiors and portraits

• 10 looks: Night City, Teal and Orange, Deep Shadows, Rain Street, Neon Dusk, Muted Forest, Colour Noir, Desaturated Drama, Blue Hour and Ember
• XMP presets for Lightroom and Camera Raw
• Matching 33-point .cube LUTs
• Vignettes tuned per look
• Grouped as DistroSource Moody Cinematic in Lightroom
• Works on raw and JPEG files

• 10 XMP presets
• 10 .cube LUTs (33-point)
• README with install steps
• Licence

• Lightroom Classic 7.3 or later, and Lightroom desktop (presets sync to Lightroom mobile)
• Adobe Camera Raw 10.3 or later in Photoshop
• LUTs: DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro (Lumetri), Final Cut Pro, Photoshop (Color Lookup), Affinity Photo

• Lightroom or Camera Raw for the XMP presets
• Any editor that loads 33-point .cube LUTs

1. Unzip the download

2. Lightroom Classic: Develop → Presets panel → + → Import Presets, then choose the XMP files

3. Photoshop: open an image in Camera Raw → Presets → Import Profiles & Presets

4. Video: load a .cube file as a LUT (Resolve LUT folder, Premiere Lumetri → Creative → Look, Final Cut Custom LUT)

5. Adjust exposure and white balance for each photo after applying a look

The XMP presets and the LUTs are built from the same look settings but applied by different engines, so results are close rather than identical. White balance shifts in the presets apply to JPEG, HEIC and TIFF files; set white balance by eye on raw files. Previews show the LUTs applied to DistroSource 3D renders, not photographs.

• Personal — Edit your own photos and videos for non-commercial use.
• Commercial — Edit photos and video for one business, including paid client work.
• Agency — Use across a studio or agency's client work, for any number of clients.

No tier permits reselling or redistributing the files themselves.

Questions about Moody Cinematic are handled through your DistroSource account — open a support ticket from the order and include your order number.