Boats in the river - using X Equals Kodachrome as a starting point.

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the Lightroom Develop presets relased by the team at X Equals. They have a few different packages available, all of which I’ve previously reviewed. If you don’t remember those reviews or just want to see them again, follow these links to the reviews and then head over to X Equals and pick the presets up for yourself.

• Creative Production Presets
• Cold Storage Volume 1 Presets
• Cold Storage Volume 2 Presets – Color
• Cold Storage Volume 2 Presets – Black and White

With the very recent demise of the famed and much loved Kodachrome, X Equals has gathered together of the their Kodachrome presets into one pack and made it available as a free download. In addition to the previously available versions, there’s a new one called Kodachrome Memorial that seeks to capture the essence of a Kodachrome slide. You can follow this link to download these presets for free. Each preset comes with 4 different options – default, grain, mix and tone. The new Kodachrome Memorial features a fifth option called toning.

Kodachrome presets

Here you can see the different presets at their default as well as a straight from camera, unprocessed shot. These have had no further processing done on them – normally I use presets as a starting point and do some extra editing to them, but for purposes of this post I haven’t.

Strraight from camera

Kodachrome 10 v1

Kodachrome 10 v2

Kodachrome 25

Kodachrome 64

Kodachrome 200

Kodachrome Memorial