Under fairy lights and candles a phone makes photos yellow, dull and flat. CHRISTMAS keeps the holiday warmth of the lights, but faces get brighter and livelier, reds turn velvety and pine greens deep. Shadows stay dimensional and clean, with no grey haze.

What the main version does. The frame gets brighter, shadows open up and highlights are held back so the lights do not blow out. Red gets a touch richer and darker, green richer and deeper, yellow calmer, so whites do not turn yellow. Orange, which is skin, gets brighter and slightly calmer in color: light and dark skin keep their own tone and do not turn orange or red. Warm gold in the highlights, a barely visible pine tint in the shadows, a light vignette on the edges and fine grain on top.

Soft does the same at 60 %: for frames with lots of lights that are already bright.

Color and tone live in a profile inside the preset, so the light and color sliders stay at zero after you apply it, and the Amount slider sets the strength. You can still adjust exposure as usual without breaking the look.

It works best on Christmas trees and lights, holiday tables, Christmas markets, gifts, candlelit evenings at home and walks through a decorated city. For a night with fireworks and a blue sky pick MIDNIGHT, for snow in daylight GLACIER.

8 files in the archive: two .xmp presets, two .dng files for the free Lightroom mobile app, two .cube LUTs for video and Photoshop, and install guides in English and Russian. The LUT carries color only: no grain, texture or vignette.

The example photos on this page were created by AI: ordinary “straight from the phone” shots with no editing. The “after” is this preset alone, main version, no retouching.