October ’98 + Dead Poets Complete Workflow Collection

Two distinctive Core Look collections. One organized Lightroom workflow.

Bring October ’98’s nostalgic autumn color and Dead Poets’ dark-academia moods into one collection, with shared tools for refining portraits, backgrounds, sky, light and the final finish. You do not need either standalone pack to use this collection.

What’s included

• 42 Core looks: 24 October ’98 looks and 18 Dead Poets looks.

• 83 distinct workflow tools, with equivalent shared tools consolidated rather than counted twice.

• 14 optional Creative Profiles and their matching preset selectors.

• Five additional profile definitions required by specific Dead Poets looks.

• One desktop installer, a new 21-page combined workflow guide, a quick-start file and a complete included-items list.

What the workflow tools do

• Starting point · 3 tools: Auto tone and color, Auto white balance or the camera’s As Shot white balance.

• Subject, background and sky · 23 tools: Refine subject brightness and detail, control background tone and texture, add atmospheric depth or haze, and target sky, ground and foliage.

• Color casts and washes · 14 tools: Correct blue, green or magenta casts on a subject or background, or choose from eight distinct background color washes.

• Portrait · 12 tools: Refine skin texture, uneven lighting, redness, orange casts and shine, plus eyes, teeth, hair and clothing. The combined retouch covers skin softening, eyes, teeth and hair; other controls remain separate.

• Lighting · 14 tools: Eight distinct light spills, directional subject light, negative fill and inner-edge lightening or darkening. Fit the supplied gradients to your photograph.

• Finishing · 10 tools: Refine color intensity, midtones, highlights, shadows, contrast, clarity and texture.

• Grain and vignette · 7 tools: Choose fine, medium or heavy grain, soft or strong post-crop edge darkening, or switch either effect off.

One group, with clear choices

Find the collection in the October '98 + Dead Poets Presets group. Ten navigation headings organize a single list; they are not collapsible folders or extra effects. The guide explains which tools replace one another and which can combine. All eight washes are alternatives within one family. Light spills have separate left and right families.

Important: profiles replace, they do not stack

Autumn Folklore, Ghosts in the Library, Weathered Parchment, Copper Elegy and Old Hollywood require their included matching profiles. Choosing a Creative Profile after one of these looks replaces its profile component. The result is a deliberate variation, not the complete original look plus a second profile layer. Save a baseline and choose one Core look at a time; switching looks does not necessarily clear previous masks or settings.

Compatibility and practical limits

Designed for current Lightroom Classic on desktop and standard SDR photo editing. The guide also covers Lightroom desktop and mobile installation. Mobile support varies by app, device and Adobe plan; iPhone/iPad profile setup uses Lightroom desktop cloud sync, not Lightroom Classic alone. AI tools require supported paid Adobe features and compatible devices.

Update and inspect AI selections for every photograph. Fine edges or small features may need manual refinement. Skin softening does not remove blemishes, background softening is not lens blur, and highlight adjustments cannot recreate detail clipped at capture. Preset Amount, Profile Amount and Mask Amount are different controls; availability varies.

Delivery

Digital ZIP download containing the inner installer and customer guide. No physical product is shipped. Adobe software and subscriptions are not included.

Product questions or installation help: benrekemeyer@gmail.com