What is NIPIK? Lightroom presets with their own camera profiles
A plain guide to what NIPIK makes, what comes in a collection, and who it is for.
The short answer
NIPIK makes Lightroom presets for wedding and portrait photographers. Each collection comes with its own camera profiles, called NIPIK Base, and with the NIPIK Installer, a free app that puts everything into Lightroom and keeps it up to date.
Our first collection is Riviera, by Danilo & Sharon, made for the whole wedding day. It works in Lightroom Classic and in Camera Raw in Photoshop, on Mac and Windows.
How is it different from a regular preset?
A regular preset is a saved set of slider positions. You click it, and Lightroom moves exposure, contrast, the tone curve, HSL and the rest to those values. The color it works on comes from the camera profile the photo already has, which is usually Adobe Color.
That is why a preset can look great on one camera and a little off on another. Adobe makes a separate profile for every camera model, and each one renders color slightly differently. The preset then moves the same sliders on top of different starting points.
NIPIK changes the starting point too. Riviera includes NIPIK Base profiles for 741 camera models, calibrated to match each other, and the look is built on top of them. We like to say that most presets just move sliders, while NIPIK rebuilds the color under them.
What comes in a collection?
Riviera has three parts.
- One look, in a preset for each kind of light: Riviera for daylight, Flash for the dance floor, Reception for rooms lit by lamps and candles, and B&W. There are JPEG versions of Riviera and B&W for photos that were not shot in RAW.
- 36 add-ons: small presets for the usual jobs after the look, such as recovering highlights, opening shadows, cooling tungsten light or taking the green cast of grass and trees off people. The AI add-ons use Lightroom’s own masks to find faces, the dress, the sky and the background.
- NIPIK Base camera profiles for 741 camera models, from Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Leica and more.
You can see every preset and add-on, and the price, on its page.
Which apps and cameras does it work with?
You need Lightroom Classic, or Camera Raw in Photoshop, on a Mac or a Windows computer. The installer sets up both.
The presets are made for RAW files, and the NIPIK Base profiles cover 741 camera models: Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Olympus and OM System, Leica, Pentax, Hasselblad, Phase One and more. If you shoot JPEG, use the JPEG versions of Riviera and B&W. Not sure your camera is covered? Ask Piko, the helper in the corner of this page, or write to us before you buy. A camera that is missing is added on request.
How do you install it and get updates?
After you buy, download the NIPIK Installer for Mac or Windows from your account page and sign in. Your collection shows up in the installer. Click Install, restart Lightroom, and the presets, add-ons and profiles are in place.
When we improve a look or add support for new cameras, the update arrives through the installer, free. You can use a collection on two computers, for example a desktop and a laptop.
What does editing with it look like?
Set white balance and exposure for the photo first, then pick the preset that fits the light. A ceremony in daylight gets Riviera, the dance floor with flash gets Flash, and a candlelit dinner gets Reception.
Most photos still need a small touch after that, because light, cameras and taste all vary. That is what the add-ons are for. The aim is a starting point that is already close, so a whole wedding takes fewer adjustments per frame and reads as one story.
Questions
Is NIPIK a LUT pack?
No. A NIPIK collection installs into Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw as presets and camera profiles, and you use it like any other preset. White balance and exposure stay yours to set for each photo.
Who makes NIPIK?
NIPIK is made by photographers. The first collection, Riviera, carries the look of Danilo & Sharon and is built for the whole wedding day, from the getting-ready room to the dance floor.
Can I use it with my second shooter’s camera?
Yes, if their camera is one of the 741 models NIPIK Base covers. Each camera gets its own NIPIK Base profile, so a Canon and a Sony start from color that is close together.
Are updates really free?
Yes. Buy a collection once, and new versions reach you through the NIPIK Installer at no extra cost.
About NIPIK
NIPIK makes Lightroom presets for wedding and portrait photographers, together with the camera profiles they sit on.
Every collection includes NIPIK Base camera profiles for 741 camera models, calibrated to match each other. Every NIPIK Base profile is a dual-illuminant camera profile: it is calibrated for two lights, daylight and tungsten, and Lightroom blends between the two as white balance moves. Measured across all 741 cameras, skin lands about 31% and foliage about 38% closer to the true chart colors than with Adobe Standard.
The first collection is Riviera, by Danilo & Sharon: one look for the whole wedding day, in presets for daylight, flash, lamp-lit rooms and black and white, with 36 one-click add-ons, for Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw on Mac and Windows. The presets for RAW photos are ISO-adaptive: Lightroom sets their noise reduction from the ISO of each photo, leaving it at the default up to ISO 600 and raising it in steps up to ISO 25,600.
You buy a collection once. The free NIPIK Installer puts it on two of your computers and keeps it up to date. A camera that is missing is added on request. See how NIPIK compares.