CITY VIBES
FREE Presets from The Street
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CITY VIBES VOL. 01
City Vibes – Vol. 1 blends cinematic grit with a subtle emotional current. Rain-slicked pavement glows. Steel and concrete carry weight. Skin tones remain grounded in reality while colors are carefully restrained to highlight, tension, and story. These presets are made for working-class streets, fleeting moments, and the stillness between chaos.
It’s for street shooters, documentary storytellers, or anyone chasing that blend of polished grime and visual poetry. Whether it’s a cyclist slipping through scaffolding or a cook buried in the rhythm of the kitchen, these looks make the mundane unforgettable.
Center Line Blue
Built to elevate architectural drama, this preset deepens blues and darkens midtones to add gravity and precision to your compositions. The sky takes on a cinematic slate tone, pulling out cloud detail while the building’s mirrored windows punch through with subtle teal highlights. Contrast is refined, not crushed, allowing reflections and geometry to pop without losing realism. Ideal for high-rise compositions, moody cityscapes, or any image where structure, symmetry, and sky play equal roles.
Crouching Alley
This preset sharpens mood and atmosphere by pulling warmth into wet surfaces while dropping the highlights to retain urban edge. The reds in reflections pop subtly, drawing attention to elements in motion or tension, while skin tones and fabric textures stay intact. It’s tuned for street work, especially rainy alleys, lone figures, or layered compositions where emotion lives in the details. Use this when you want your frame to feel like a still from a movie you wish existed.
Legend
This preset carves light and shadow into narrative. Designed for upward perspectives and framed ambition, it enhances brickwork, metal, and skin with a gritty yet cinematic polish. Whites are tempered to protect the sky, while shadows fall just heavy enough to anchor the mood. Subtle warmth keeps the tones human, not sterile. Ideal for fire escapes, back-alley climbs, or moments where character outweighs clarity. Use this when you want your subject to look like they’re ascending toward something bigger than the frame.
Mall Ride
This preset captures that cinematic edge of a wet city grind, where rain has just passed, but the tension hasn’t. It neutralizes sky glare to anchor your tones, then deepens reds and shadows for that heavy downtown weight. The red of the bus and tail lights subtly commands attention, while concrete and architectural tones stay true to life. Perfect for rainy streets, muted reflections, and anything that feels like urban patience. This is for city shooters who want their frame to hum with held breath.
Messenger
This preset focuses on clean contrast and damp clarity, sculpting rain-slick sidewalks into polished stages where motion takes center frame. It subtly cools down bright highlights while letting colors, especially green foliage, red bricks, and skin tones, hold natural vibrancy. Midtones are carefully leveled to emphasize action and subject movement without artificial gloss. Designed for urban stories in motion—riders, runners, or anyone cutting through the grid. Use this when you want a documentary feel with cinematic edge, as if the city itself paused for you to tell this one moment right.
Pedicab
This preset brings out the soul in overcast urban moments. It deepens midtones to enhance concrete texture and introduces a muted coolness that settles like early morning fog. Reds and blues gain a quiet strength, grounded and never loud, while highlights roll off smoothly to protect skin and motion. Designed for solitary subjects, passing glances, or the low hum of a city that never really wakes up. It’s perfect for capturing rhythm in stillness, the echo of movement on a wet sidewalk, or the silent grind of life in motion.
Reflections
This preset taps into cinematic urban tones by deepening sky drama and subtly warming the building’s reflections. Whites are rolled back to keep clouds textured and dimensional, while midtones are cooled for a slick, polished finish across glass and steel. Reflections gain contrast without harshness, turning high-rises into light sculptures. Perfect for city architecture on moody days, this preset adds weight and clarity to towering structures without losing realism. Use it when you want your skyline shots to hum with quiet power.
That Shot
This preset leans cinematic, with a subtle shift toward cooler shadows and a slight desaturation that lets the subject breathe in the frame. Highlights are tamed to protect skies, while reflective surfaces, like glass or metal, gain a soft luster without overpowering the scene. Ideal for street portraits taken from low angles or architectural moments that frame a subject against towering geometry. Use this when you want your image to feel like determination caught mid-motion, ambition paused for just a second.
The Cook
This preset zeroes in on controlled contrast and cinematic tone to elevate indoor environmental shots. It softens the ambient tungsten warmth of a kitchen, gently desaturating oranges while enhancing cool undertones for a neutral, gritty balance. Skin tones remain clean and natural, with steel and metal textures emphasized to create depth in confined spaces. Designed for candid moments in work environments, this preset gives functional scenes a stylized edge, or behind-the-scenes documentation. Use it when you want realism with just enough drama to feel intentional.
Under Construction 01
This preset grounds urban chaos into cinematic structure, designed to bring order and warmth to city clutter. It pulls back harsh highlights from safety gear and traffic elements, taming bright oranges and yellows into smoother tones without sacrificing visual clarity. Shadows deepen just enough to add weight and contrast to industrial shapes, while skin tones and clothing textures are preserved naturally. Great for street documentary, and high-viz scenes where you want grit to meet balance without losing realism.
Under Construction 02
This preset leans into grit and warmth without overplaying contrast, creating a cinematic look that keeps detail in the shadows and integrity in the highlights. Orange tones, get a rugged prominence, reinforcing the industrial energy of the scene without overwhelming skin tones or textures. The blacks roll off soft instead of crushing, which lets denim, leather, and even pavement carry their natural wear proudly. It’s ideal for urban portraits, construction settings, or any situation where strength, presence, and character need to coexist in a single frame.
CITY VIBES VOL. 01
City Vibes – Vol. 1 blends cinematic grit with a subtle emotional current. Rain-slicked pavement glows. Steel and concrete carry weight. Skin tones remain grounded in reality while colors are carefully restrained to highlight, tension, and story. These presets are made for working-class streets, fleeting moments, and the stillness between chaos.
It’s for street shooters, documentary storytellers, or anyone chasing that blend of polished grime and visual poetry. Whether it’s a cyclist slipping through scaffolding or a cook buried in the rhythm of the kitchen, these looks make the mundane unforgettable.