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Vintage faded

Washed analogue photo

Matte blacks, pastel colour and a warm cast — a photo that looks like it was printed twenty years ago and left in the sun.

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Vintage faded
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Demo image

Demo images are generated illustrations, not photographs taken with a specific camera. They show the direction of the look, not a guaranteed result.

The settings

White balance

Temperature
5900 K
Tint
+10

Light

Exposure
+0.10
Contrast
-20
Highlights
-15
Shadows
+20
Whites
-15
Blacks
+30

Presence

Texture
-5
Clarity
-10
Dehaze
-12

Colour

Vibrance
-5
Saturation
-20

Colour grading

Highlight tone (hue)
+50
Highlight tone (amount)
+20
Shadow tone (hue)
+320
Shadow tone (amount)
+14

Grain

Grain
+30
Grain size
+28

Why these numbers

  • A high Blacks value with low Contrast is what 'faded' actually means.
  • Low Saturation plus a warm highlight tone gives the aged paper feeling.
  • More grain than usual — old photos are never clean.

Adjust it for your photo

  • Too flat? Add +10 Contrast; the fade survives.
  • Reduce the yellow cast with Temperature down to about 5000 if skin looks ill.

Best for

Film-style portraitsSummer snapshotsNostalgic setsInstagram grids

A preset is a starting point, not a finished edit. Always check exposure and white balance afterwards — the same values look different on a different photo.

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