A Free Lightroom Preset Extractor

credits: Colorsuite App

Imagine spending over a decade perfecting your Lightroom presets, only to lose them all due to a corrupt catalog. That’s exactly what happened to Reddit user iusemydogshampoo, and after trying every recovery method out there—with no luck—he built his own solution: colorsuite app.

It’s simple to use—just drop a JPEG with Lightroom metadata into the site, and it extracts all the edits in a Lightroom-style interface. You can then save the settings as a new preset or LUT. And best of all? It’s completely free.

Beyond recovering lost presets, the tool also lets photographers analyse other edits to learn new colour grading techniques—though it also means people could potentially lift other photographers’ styles if metadata isn’t stripped before sharing. For those worried about privacy, the creator says everything runs in the browser, with no data being collected. They also plan to make the tool open source in the future.

You can try the coloursuite app here