October '98 Complete Collection

October ’98 Complete Collection

A complete Lightroom editing collection inspired by late-’90s nostalgia, cinematic color, and the atmosphere of October.

Explore warm indoor light, muted autumn foliage, cool evening tones, softly faded photographs, and darker Halloween moods. October ’98 gives you a range of creative looks, along with targeted tools for shaping the light, refining portraits, and finishing your photographs.

Includes 24 core looks, 75 workflow tools, and 14 creative profiles, arranged in one Workflow group with nine navigation headings. Auto Settings comes first; grain and Vignette Soft, Strong, and Off sit at the bottom. Choose a core look, adjust its strength, then refine exposure and white balance. Core looks change the editing sliders. The October ’98 look includes the skin-balance update, and Cloud Recovery offers Neutral, Cool Storm, and Warm Sunset variations.

More control inside the 75 workflow tools

These are targeted editing presets for refining your photograph alongside the Core looks. Many use Lightroom’s AI masks to select the subject, background, sky or detected portrait details.

• Portrait refinement: separate controls for uneven skin lighting, redness or orange casts, and shine, alongside the skin, eye, teeth, hair and clothing tools described below.

• Background control: brighten, darken, warm or cool the surroundings, quiet distracting texture, or choose atmospheric depth or soft haze.

• Lighting control: shape light and shadow from either side of the subject, add warm or cool spills, and refine the inner subject edge for separation. Fit the gradients to your photo.

Apply only what the photo needs. Update and inspect AI masks; edges and small features may need manual refinement. Skin softening does not remove blemishes, background softening is not lens blur, and highlight recovery cannot recreate detail lost at capture. The guide explains which tools combine and which are alternatives.

What’s included

24 core color looks

Including October ’98, Pumpkin Spice, Vampyre Bite, Nightmare, Witching Woods, and Sleepy Hollow. Each offers a different palette and tonal character, with adjustable Preset Amount.

14 creative profiles

Creative profiles that add restrained print character, warmth, coolness, and atmospheric color over your chosen look. Adjust their strength independently using Profile Amount.

Adaptive subject and background tools

Lift your subject, control bright highlights, open shadows, deepen backgrounds, and refine separation using targeted masks.

Portrait retouching tools

Skin softening, eye-white brightening, iris detail, gentle teeth whitening, hair enhancement, and clothing adjustments. Includes a one-click portrait retouch preset combining the main facial and hair tools.

Landscape and sky tools

Target foliage, ground, atmospheric softness, shadows, and sky detail, or apply the coordinated Landscape Full Enhancement preset.

Creative lighting and color tools

Warm and cool light leaks, background color washes, and targeted color-cast corrections.

Finishing tools

Highlight and shadow adjustments, color intensity controls, midtone shaping, texture, grain, and vignette.

Installation and workflow guide

A 13-page PDF covering installation, backup-first migration, preset descriptions, combining tools, troubleshooting, and product support.

Compatibility and mobile installation

Includes installers for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom desktop, plus XMP presets for direct import into Lightroom on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Use an up-to-date app.

On Android, import the included creative-profile ZIP through Edit > Profiles > … > Import Profiles. On iPhone and iPad, import the 14 creative profiles through Lightroom desktop on a Mac or Windows computer, then sync them through Adobe cloud. Direct XMP preset import alone does not install these profiles.

Adaptive tools depend on your Lightroom version, Adobe plan, and device. Some specialized AI selections may require desktop processing. The collection is designed for standard SDR photo editing.

Delivery

Downloadable ZIP containing the collection and customer guide. Lightroom software is not included. The product-box imagery is a digital mockup; no physical product is shipped.

Product questions or installation help: benrekemeyer@gmail.com