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LET'S GET SALTY

Embark on a voyage with us at Salty Sailor Presets, your destination for photographers and videographers seeking the best Presets, Video LUTs, Editing Tools, and Online Courses on the web. We’re delighted to welcome you aboard our community-oriented platform, tailored for both seasoned professionals and beginners alike. 

Explore our diverse selection of Photography and Video Preset and LUTS Packs, Editing Tools, and Online Courses, each crafted to elevate your photography and videography endeavors to new depths. 

Our one-click Presets are tailored to unleash your inner artist, providing a seamless experience for photographers. Compatible with Adobe’s AI-powered editing software programs, Lightroom and Camera Raw, our Preset Packs transform your work. Each Preset Pack comes with installation guides and usage tutorials, ensuring you get the most out of your editing tools.

Dive into the world of videography with our Salty LUTS Video Preset Pack. These LUTs are meticulously crafted to enhance creative looks, picture profiles, or LOG formats, ensuring compatibility across various devices – whether you’re filming on a professional camera or a smartphone.

At Salty Sailor, we’re dedicated to creating a distinctive style that infuses your images with vibrant, bold colors and dreamy tones, all while preserving their authenticity. Prior to the launch of each new Preset Pack, thorough testing is conducted on over 2,000 RAW files across various camera brands, including Sony, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Fujifilm, and Olympus. Every Salty Sailor Product is meticulously crafted to enhance your editing skills, elevate the quality of your photography, and expedite your workflow, transforming your images and videos into works of art. Thanks for joining us, and welcome aboard!

SALTY SAILOR
pronounced
saal tee say lr

An older sailor sometimes referred to as being “crusty” which was a euphemism for an “old salt” or a veteran sailor with an overabundance of experience at sea.

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SALTY AI PRESET PACK

Shooting outdoors can be a gorgeous yet sometimes fickle beast. The Salty Preset Pack is intended for outdoor portrait photography. We created this outdoor pack with our signature vibrant, bold, and beautiful tones for the blue and golden hours. 

SALTY – pronounced – saal tee – Definition: The original meaning is simply: containing salt, or tasting of salt, but since sailors had a reputation for colorful language “SALTY” soon came to refer to crude speech and later to explosive anger.

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MOOR AI PRESET PACK

The Moor Preset Pack is a remedy for any ill-mannered indoor lighting situation. ​The Moor Preset Pack helps any interior or indoor photo feel bright, open, and inviting. This preset pack helps cut down editing time by keeping skin tones looking flawless while providing bold, rich, and vibrant color no matter where you’re shooting.

MOOR – pronounced – mor – Definition: Make fast (a boat) by attaching it by a cable or a rope to the shore or to and anchor

STORM AI PRESET PACK

Bring out your artistic side and create some beautiful black and white images. The Storm Preset Pack was created to transform your color images into powerful black and whites with deep and rich blacks, a classic film look, or even a dramatic dark matte.

STORMpronounced – s-t-AW-r-m – Definition: A violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.

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ADRIFT AI PRESET PACK

The ADRIFT AI Preset Pack by Salty Sailor is your gateway to effortless photo editing. Say goodbye to hours of post-processing work and embrace the convenience of this groundbreaking adjustable artificial intelligence preset pack. Designed for both photography enthusiasts and professionals, Salty Sailors ADRIFT AI Preset Pack is fully adjustable, empowering you to achieve your desired look with ease.

ADRIFTpronounced – e’drift – Definition: without motive power and without anchor or mooring

LUTS VIDEO
PRESET PACK

The SALTY LUTs will create beautifully edited videos that will have the same aesthetic as your images edited with the SALTY Preset Pack. These LUTS have been developed to work when filming on any creative look, picture profile, or LOG on any camera that has recording capabilities, including your cell phone!

The SALTY LUTS will help you transform your RAW footage into color-enhanced video so that you’ll be able to match the look of your films with your photos in no time.

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The Photographer Finder

The photographer finder is a way for you to search for a photographer anywhere in the World that uses the Salty Sailor Presets and/or purchased our educational videos, editing courses, or attended our mentorships, and retreats/workshops. Each photographer listed in our locator is advertising their photography business through us! With over 5,000 people visiting our website a month, we are pretty confident you’ll find a photographer here that is a right fit to capture your memories!!

"I can’t say enough amazing things about Salty Sailor Presets. The presets and education from Victoria and Michelle have leveled up my art and business 1000x! 10/10 recommendation for photographers of every experience level!"

- Nicole Benner
Nicole Benner Photography, Port Charlotte, Florida

"If you are serious about investing in your photography and editing skills and are trying to get the bold and vibrant look… Salty Sailor Presets are perfect. The support you get with Michelle and Victoria is overwhelming and not only have my skills improved drastically, but so has my own confidence. I can’t recommend the Salty and Moor Preset Packs and the editing videos enough."

- Katie Hodgson
Katie Hodgson Photography, Silverdale, New Zealand

Education

A Grain Of Salt

In our “A Grain of Salt” Online Courses, you’ll find a range of goal-oriented videos aimed at helping you achieve specific editing objectives. Continuously updated, our courses focus on enhancing your skills in Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, and other third-party software programs. Designed for all experience levels, each course enables you to learn at your own pace, ensuring a personalized and effective learning experience.

Our Salty Sailor Courses are made for photographers. Editing photos can seriously boost their quality, but the process can be hard to master. That’s where we come in. Learn all you need to know about photo editing and discover how you can fix your images in a flash. Gain the skills and resources to transform how you do business and make each image come to life.

"I have been shooting for almost 2 decades now and I have taken so many courses, none of them compare to the level of education and service Salty Sailor Presets have. My only regret is that I did not find them earlier. If you are on the fence about purchasing these amazing presets...just do it, you are going to love the results!"

- Tiffany Johnson
Tiffany Johnson Photography, San Francisco, California

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Presets for Photographers & On going Photography Education

"Discovering Salty Sailor Presets and the creators has seriously changed the game for my photography business. Being able to utilize all aspects of the mentorships, presets, and the Salty Sailor Presets for Photographers Facebook Group has helped me to create beautiful work and a more efficient workflow that my growing client base loves!"

- Sarah Marshall
Sarah K. Marshall Photography, San Diego, California