Film Archive, the shelf behind the counter
Honest stocks, laid on the light table.
Film Archive is the shelf of stocks and processes a lab would keep: negative, slide, instant, matte, a darkroom print, cine glass and the snapshot roll. One tap in the free Lightroom app on your phone or in Lightroom Classic.
For film-look and cinematic creators who want the emulsion, not a filter named after one.
the tray
The Light Table
144 presets across 4 territories
Negative, instant, cinema, snapshot. Each shelf opens to its stocks and a few frames on the same photographs.
Negative and slide
trayWarm midtones and a soft shoulder, or steep tone and loud clean colour, or the dense darkroom print.
- Colour Neg 18 presets
- Slide Film 18 presets
- Rich Print 18 presets
Instant and matte
trayToe lifted and the frame paled with a green-warm cast; the matte ladder with no colour work.
- Instant Pack 18 presets
- Matte Finish 18 presets
Cinema
trayCine glass kept low-contrast and blue in the flare; the bleach-bypass silver look.
- Anamorphic Wide 18 presets
- Bleach Pass 18 presets
Snapshot
trayDirect flash, a magenta tint, cheap-print reds run hot on purpose.
- Snapshot Vernacular 18 presets
Negative first, because that is what most people mean by film. Colour Neg has the warm midtones, the soft shoulder and the cyan lean in the shadows; Skin Latitude lets the faces warm before anything else does. Slide Film is the reversal shelf: steep tone, dense blacks and loud clean colour, from Clean Reversal up to Maximum Chrome. Rich Print is the darkroom enlargement, reds deep and nothing clipped.
Instant Pack lifts the toe, pales the frame and lets a green-warm cast in, with Faint Pack for a trace of it and Full Pack for the whole thing. Matte Finish is the finishing ladder with no colour work at all, toe lifted and shoulder pulled; Cotton Stock is the one most editors leave on a gallery export.
The cinema shelf is a pair. Anamorphic Wide keeps the low-contrast rendering cine glass gives, blacks lifted and the flare left blue; the streak itself comes from the lens, this only gives it a cool tone to sit in. Bleach Pass is the silver look, contrast hard and colour stripped to an orange residue.
Snapshot Vernacular is the roll nobody meant to be art: direct flash, a magenta tint, cheap-print reds run hot on purpose. A few frames from each shelf are on the light table below, on the same photographs.
how it works
Yours in two minutes
- Buy the setCheckout takes a card; you get a receipt by email.
- Download instantlyThe preset files download right after payment. Re-download any time from your account.
- Import to LightroomOpen the files in the free Lightroom app (iOS or Android) or Lightroom Classic. Lightroom saves them as presets automatically.
- Tap a presetOne tap applies the full look. Every setting stays editable after.
- Single-user license. Yours to use in personal and client work.
- No redistribution. Don't resell or share the preset files themselves.
- Free app is enough. No Adobe subscription needed for Lightroom mobile.
- Keep it forever. Files live in your account for re-download.
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
get it
Get Film Archive
Film Archive
$199
All 144 presets · one-time payment · instant download
Works in the free Lightroom app · keep forever
Instant download after payment. The download link is also sent to your email and stays available in your account.
questions
Asked and Answered
Which one looks most like a scanned negative?
Full Emulsion in Colour Neg has all of it at once. Light Emulsion is the gentlest pass if the file already has some warmth in it.
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 144 presets from Film Archive 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.