Mastin LabsReviews of mastinlabs.com

I bought lightroom preset for mobile. They didn’t mention you need lightroom on your computer to use it !!! Of course they change the description after I contacted them, but they didn’t refund me. I can’t use the presets and I am really disappointed. It is not worth it ! I was hoping for a goodwill gesture or a solution but they absolutely don’t care. Worst experience of buying things online by far.

Really bad presets.. thought I would invest in these to make my life easier and let the experts handle the colour work.. turns out my own presets work significantly better for Fuji files. I purchased the Portra originals pack and Portra 160 looks like Portra 400, and Portra 400 is over saturated and over contrasted to the point where I just deleted them. Would not recommend at all!

So disappointed with these presets and the customer service and after talking to other professionals- I am not the only one. The presets look terrible and when I talked to customer service they were very unprofessional and unhelpful. Do not purchase these!

Unfortunately, they do not give a refund when you are really not happy with your purchase. I tried to explain why the preset I bought did not work for me but they were not a big help. I thought customer satisfaction should come first. I was wrong.

Too much contrast and saturation. Once you apply a preset, you would have to spend so much time tweaking it in order to get some resemblance with film. They do chose their marketing materials wisely. However, when it comes to real life work the quality of presets is so low. Again what you can see on their web site was selected carefully to give you the right impression. I've been shooting film for years and never have I ever had an image edited with Mastin Labs that would look like film. I'd say poor mimicking, that's all. Interestingly enough, they only show you positive four and five star reviews on their web site and when I wrote mine giving it a one star, it never came through. I'd not buy it again.

I rarely leave reviews here but the case of Mastin labs is just outrageous. It is a complete joke. From all the presets and profile makers those are the most tasteless and dodgy despite Kirk Mastin claiming he made it based on real film scans. In reality they are not true to real film and quite a long way from those doctored images he uses in his samples gallery. Also this guy seems to be using an army of bots and fake websites to create an illusion of support. After my own experience with this vendor I can only reiterate what others say: avoid.

Disappointed with the quality of Mastin's Kodak Everyday pack. Not true to real film at all, inaccurate, poor results. Only 3 presets in the package, look like VSСО copies but simplified and poorly designed compared to the originals. The price of $99 is absolutely inappropriate for what it is. Avoid this seller by any means, it's a scam.