Night System, an archive of the dark

Black point deep. Noise respected.

Night System files the whole night in one box: blue hour, sodium street, the core, star trails, a meteor, the moon. Black point set, noise left honest. Runs in the free Lightroom app on iPhone and Android and in Lightroom Classic.

For night landscape and astro shooters who plan by the curve of the dark.

144 presets · 8 collections · one download

Get Night System for $199 Open: all 144 presets

The rooftop at dusk: sky deep blue, the first windows just warming, nothing blown.

open

One box, opened

Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Cables at the end of the light

Sodium coming on, orange cut

Box one is the city. Blue Hour City is the reference dusk grade, sky deep blue against the first lit windows, with members for a single lit office window, evening traffic with the trails held against the blue, and the moment the lamps come on. Sodium Street pulls the vapour orange and accepts what that leaves: a near-mono frame graded honestly, with Cyan Guard to stop the cool pull swinging the pavement teal.

Box two is the deep sky. Night Sky is the wide-field baseline: black point deep, shadow tint cool, one variant per object from the Pleiades to an eclipse corona. Milky Way Core carries the dust lanes on texture, warm core against cool arms, global saturation held near neutral so noise is not lifted with it. Deep Sky finishes a stack: faint signal lifted, the emission bands separated, green treated as the noise it mostly is.

Box three is events. Star Trail keeps a long stack's sky gradient smooth, contrast carried by a curve rather than a slider, with dither added on purpose to break up the stepping. Meteor Watch holds the streak bright while the sky floor drops; it cannot recover a trail the sensor did not record, and the notes say so.

Box four is the moon, the daylit subject in a night set. Lunar Detail recovers the limb, raises crater texture along the terminator and pulls the disc to neutral. Below, a few presets from each box on the same frames.

the archive

The Boxes

144 presets across 4 territories

City, deep sky, events, moon. Open a box for its collections and a few presets on the same frames.

City after dark

box

Deep blue against the first lamps, then sodium cut to whatever honest colour is left.

Blue Hour City 18 presets
Sodium Street 18 presets

Graded with Night System: Sodium Lamp on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Sodium Lamp on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Ungraded version of the same scene — Sodium Lamp on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Sodium Lamp on Cables at the end of the light — Sodium Lamp on Cables at the end of the light

Graded with Night System: River Wall on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — River Wall on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: River Wall on Cables at the end of the light — River Wall on Cables at the end of the light

Graded with Night System: Lamp Warmup on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Lamp Warmup on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Lamp Warmup on Cables at the end of the light — Lamp Warmup on Cables at the end of the light

Deep sky

box

Black point deep, faint signal lifted, the core's dust lanes carried by texture.

Deep Sky 18 presets
Milky Way Core 18 presets
Night Sky 18 presets

Graded with Night System: Lane Shadow on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Lane Shadow on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Lane Shadow on Blue hour, box one — Lane Shadow on Blue hour, box one

Graded with Night System: Floor Pedestal on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Floor Pedestal on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Floor Pedestal on Blue hour, box one — Floor Pedestal on Blue hour, box one

Graded with Night System: Andromeda Smudge on Cables at the end of the light — Andromeda Smudge on Cables at the end of the light

Graded with Night System: Andromeda Smudge on Sodium coming on, orange cut — Andromeda Smudge on Sodium coming on, orange cut

Graded with Night System: Shell Rim on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Shell Rim on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Shell Rim on Blue hour, box one — Shell Rim on Blue hour, box one

Events in the sky

box

Trails brightened over a smooth stack gradient; the streak held while the sky floor drops.

Star Trail 18 presets
Meteor Watch 18 presets

Graded with Night System: Seam Blend on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Seam Blend on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Seam Blend on Cables at the end of the light — Seam Blend on Cables at the end of the light

Graded with Night System: Fireball Arc on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Fireball Arc on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Fireball Arc on Cables at the end of the light — Fireball Arc on Cables at the end of the light

Graded with Night System: Hourly Count on Cables at the end of the light — Hourly Count on Cables at the end of the light

Graded with Night System: Hourly Count on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Hourly Count on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Moon

box

Highlights held, crater texture up, the disc pulled to neutral.

Lunar Detail 18 presets

Graded with Night System: Rim Wall on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Rim Wall on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Rim Wall on Blue hour, box one — Rim Wall on Blue hour, box one

Graded with Night System: Ejecta Ray on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held — Ejecta Ray on Boats before the harbour wakes, black point held

Graded with Night System: Ejecta Ray on Blue hour, box one — Ejecta Ray on Blue hour, box one

how it works

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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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Night System

$199

All 144 presets · one-time payment · instant download

Works in the free Lightroom app · keep forever

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

questions

Asked and Answered

Does it remove noise?

It respects it. Smoothing sits where a long exposure needs it and stays low where it would erase a faint trail or a star. Every slider stays yours.

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 144 presets from Night System 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.