Kelsealoha Underwater

Kelsealoha Underwater Preset Pack — fix the washed-out blues from your dive trip photos

The gist: Underwater shots almost always come out flat and blue-tinted straight off the camera; this pack of 10 Lightroom presets is built specifically to fix that, by a photographer who shoots underwater professionally.

• Made by a working ocean photographer: Kelsey Williamson (@kelsealoha) is a Hawaii-based freediver and commercial photographer who has shot for Tahiti Tourism, Garmin, and DJI — these are the actual presets she uses on her own dive and snorkel photos.
• Three targeted categories: Colors (preserves skin tones and sea life vibrancy), Blues (keeps ocean depth true to its natural tone), and Environment (a flexible base for any underwater condition).
• Built for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC desktop: straightforward to apply if you're already editing travel photos in Lightroom.
• A starting point, not a one-click fix: the presets are meant as a base you fine-tune per photo, not a magic single-click filter.

As Gridfiti's guide to underwater photo editing notes, purpose-built underwater presets exist specifically to correct the color distortion and lost vibrancy that raw underwater shots suffer from — exactly the problem this pack targets.

Best for: travelers who snorkel, dive, or shoot beach/ocean content and want their underwater shots to look intentional. Skip it if: you never shoot underwater or already have a working underwater edit workflow. Runs ~$41 — check the current price before buying.