Vintage fade: warm, faded colour with a family-album grain
Faded warm blacks, soft whites, muted colour and sepia-tinged highlights, with the most grain of any look.
True to cameraVintage fade
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| What it does | Faded warm blacks, soft whites, muted colour, sepia-tinged highlights and grain |
|---|---|
| Good for | Heritage venues, family-archive feel |
When we'd reach for it
Heritage venues, family-archive sets, and a few frames inside a modern gallery for contrast.
When we wouldn't
A whole wedding. A full gallery in this look can date quickly.
The recipe
These are the settings stored in the look, drawn rather than listed. They sit on top of your camera's own colour and the exposure and white balance CullTone sets for each photo, so the same look lands a little differently on every frame.
Every look has a strength from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit, at 1 the look as drawn here, and above 1 more of everything it does. More on reading curves in tone curves for photographers.
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Try Vintage fade on your own photos
Start a trial, create a project and pick this look. The studio shows it on your frames, at any strength, before anything renders.