Colour Systems, the wheel as a folio

Every palette. Every harmony. One wheel.

Colour Systems is a library of palettes and harmony schemes for any subject: warm and cool families, complements, splits, triads, and two ways to hold back. Works in the free Lightroom app on iPhone and Android, and in Lightroom Classic.

For colour-theory driven creators and colourists who grade by the wheel.

Get Colour Systems for $399 Open: all 252 presets

The rooftop at dusk as a complementary pair. Blue sky darkened, the warm lamps left as the lighter half.

Start with the wheel. Analogous Warm keeps red, orange and yellow and suppresses the cool bands; Analogous Cool keeps green, aqua and blue and suppresses the warm ones. Complementary Pair sets blue and aqua against red and yellow and empties everything between. Split Complement puts yellow against blue and purple. Triadic Balance carries yellow, aqua and magenta and holds down the bands between them. Each scheme is worked band by band in hue, saturation and luminance, so skin stays skin while the scheme takes the rest of the frame.

Then the named palettes. Copper Rose turns the reds pink and lifts them, folds magenta in, and restrains orange so faces survive. Ochre Field deepens the yellows, folds the greens in and suppresses the blues. Rust Iron is oxide red with skin kept off it. On the cool side, Slate Blue deepens the blues and folds aqua and purple in; Plum Dusk steers blue and magenta into violet; Moss Olive pushes green toward yellow and lifts the faces; Sage Room drains green to a pale grey-green.

Two collections hold back. Monochrome Hue is a single cyan scheme with every other band emptied. Neutral Accent is a near-neutral frame where one red accent carries all the colour.

Not on this wheel: Warm Cool Split, the network's exclusive split-tone set, sold on its own page only. The Palette Set is the smaller pack of named families; this folio is the palettes and the harmony systems together.

contents

The Wheel

252 presets across 4 territories

Warm, cool, harmony, restraint. Each department opens to its collections and a few presets on the same photographs.

Named warm

chapter

Copper rose kept safe for faces, ochre and sand, oxide red.

Copper Rose 18 presets
Ochre Field 18 presets
Rust Iron 18 presets

Graded with Colour Systems: Sandstone Face on A face and a street, on the wheel — Sandstone Face on A face and a street, on the wheel

Ungraded version of the same scene — Sandstone Face on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Sandstone Face on A sunny table, in harmony — Sandstone Face on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Maroon Oxide on A sunny table, in harmony — Maroon Oxide on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Maroon Oxide on A face and a street, on the wheel — Maroon Oxide on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Guava Flesh on A sunny table, in harmony — Guava Flesh on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Guava Flesh on A face and a street, on the wheel — Guava Flesh on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Paprika Dust on A sunny table, in harmony — Paprika Dust on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Paprika Dust on A face and a street, on the wheel — Paprika Dust on A face and a street, on the wheel

Named cool and green

chapter

Slate, plum and violet, deep olive, pale sage.

Slate Blue 18 presets
Plum Dusk 18 presets
Moss Olive 18 presets
Sage Room 18 presets

Graded with Colour Systems: Lapis Grit on A face and a street, on the wheel — Lapis Grit on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Lapis Grit on A sunny table, in harmony — Lapis Grit on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Chalk Sage on A face and a street, on the wheel — Chalk Sage on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Chalk Sage on A sunny table, in harmony — Chalk Sage on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Hops Cone on A face and a street, on the wheel — Hops Cone on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Hops Cone on A sunny table, in harmony — Hops Cone on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Grape Bloom on A face and a street, on the wheel — Grape Bloom on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Grape Bloom on A sunny table, in harmony — Grape Bloom on A sunny table, in harmony

Harmony systems

chapter

Neighbours on the wheel, opposites, the split and the triad.

Analogous Warm 18 presets
Analogous Cool 18 presets
Complementary Pair 18 presets
Split Complement 18 presets
Triadic Balance 18 presets

Graded with Colour Systems: Near Opposite on A face and a street, on the wheel — Near Opposite on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Near Opposite on A sunny table, in harmony — Near Opposite on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Umber Straw on A sunny table, in harmony — Umber Straw on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Umber Straw on A face and a street, on the wheel — Umber Straw on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Basil Teal on A sunny table, in harmony — Basil Teal on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Basil Teal on A face and a street, on the wheel — Basil Teal on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Rust Answer on A sunny table, in harmony — Rust Answer on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Rust Answer on A face and a street, on the wheel — Rust Answer on A face and a street, on the wheel

Restraint

chapter

One hue with the rest emptied, or a neutral frame with a single red accent.

Monochrome Hue 18 presets
Neutral Accent 18 presets

Graded with Colour Systems: Red Alone on A sunny table, in harmony — Red Alone on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Red Alone on A face and a street, on the wheel — Red Alone on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: One Tone on A sunny table, in harmony — One Tone on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: One Tone on A face and a street, on the wheel — One Tone on A face and a street, on the wheel

Graded with Colour Systems: Teal Ladder on A sunny table, in harmony — Teal Ladder on A sunny table, in harmony

Graded with Colour Systems: Teal Ladder on A face and a street, on the wheel — Teal Ladder on A face and a street, on the wheel

open

The same minute, kept

A face and a street, on the wheel

Produce, band by band

A sunny table, in harmony

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.

Netzah Elad Topaz, the photographer who makes these presets

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

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Colour Systems

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Instant download after payment. The download link is also sent to your email and stays available in your account.

questions

Asked and Answered

Will a harmony scheme wreck skin tones?

The orange band is turned only a few degrees in every scheme, and the members named for faces, Orchid Throat in Plum Dusk or Counter Weight in Complementary Pair, restrain it further. Start from the face-safe member and step outward.

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 252 presets from Colour Systems 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.