Vintage Portrait Lightroom Photo Editing
You can improve photo edit and transform your RAW or unedited images to make them look better and get that premium vintage tone in your photos by following step by step instructions given below. By following these editing settings you can learn about photo editing in lightroom mobile. And you can improve your editing skills. I will also provide attach before and after results below. When it comes to photo editing, In this photo editing tutorial I like to bring out the light, tonal curve and add saturation color tones to the photos. It almost gives your photos a professional look. These editing settings works for all types of vintage photography like portrait photos, retro fashion pictures, vintage indoor images, vintage photography pictures, aesthetic retro photos, vintage photography images and many more. Never stop upgrading or upscaling your editing skills always focus on creativity, innovation, audience understanding, consistency and adaptability. By following these editing tutorials you can transform from beginner to premium look.
Photo editing can be very hard and complex, even there's no right or wrong way in how to do it. If we start editing in adobe lightroom mobile, we have so many different curves, tools, color mixes, aspects and settings almost giving us endless combinations we can create with. So, that can make it really hard but it can also make it fun and professional. In this tutorial i will try to make you all understand editing and gain some knowledge of color correcting. So welcome to this vintage portrait lightroom photo editing tutorial.
How To Edit Vintage Portrait in Lightroom
To achieve Vintage Photography looks to your photos, i will provide you all settings below step by step. Just follow all the steps properly and try to understand which editing tool is for what. Always remember that before getting into editing process selection of photos matter's a lot always select the prefect image. So Let's start editing now.
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Step 1: Settings for light adjustments of the photo
Let's start with light option in the edit tab of Lightroom which includes base lighting and tonal curve of the photo. Move your slider carefully and according to settings given below or else you can also take reference from picture attached below.
Exposure: +0.00 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Contrast: -30 (decrease contrast to give that retro colours look)
Highlights: -30 (to darken the skin color tone to your subject in the photo)
Shadows: +20 (to brighten the subject a bit from the background)
Whites: -50 (whites to be decreased to achieve that dark brown tone)
Blacks: +7 (to make your subject bright from the background)
Now Let's move to most important part of photo editing which is tonal curve adjustment (know more about tonal curve).
You can take reference from the picture attached below i have provide light setting and curve settings for white, red, green and blue curves.
Step 2: Settings for color adjustments
Now let's move to the interesting part of photo editing which is adjusting color of the photo. Here you can adjust temperature, tint, saturation, you color grade and also you can mix color of your photo. For Vintage Portrait Photography look i have given the settings below.
Move to color option in the edit section and change these setting using the slider.
Temperature: +10 (increase temperature to get warmer tone to your photos)
Tint: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Vibrance: -10 (it will give softer colours of your whole photo)
Saturation: -20 (by decreasing saturation it will look vintage colours)
Take reference from this image for colour adjustments
In the photo to get that Vintage Photography look color grading and color mix are important aspects so now go to color grading part which includes shadows, mid tones, highlights and global as shown in the image above and these are the settings for color grading and mix.
Color Grading Settings:
Highlights:
Hue: +60 (by setting this value it will give yellowish green tone)
Saturation: +15 (increase this one to get vintage colours to your photo)
Luminance: +30
Blending: +50
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Color Mix Settings:
Red
Hue: -10 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -10 (increase to give retro photography tone to your image)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Orange
Hue: -21 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: - 8 (by increasing this it will compliment subject's colour tone with the retro photography)
Luminance: -9
Yellow
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -50 (it will enhance your yellow's of your photo)
Luminance: +20 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Green
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this vintage portrait edit)
Saturation: -70 (if there's any green things then it will reduce that green in your photo)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Teal
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -70 (decrease teal saturation value as it's not important for this tone)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blue
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -70 (decrease blue saturation value as it's not important for this tone)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Purple
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -50
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this vintage edit)
Pink
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this vintage tone)
Saturation: -50
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Step 3: Settings for Effects of your photo
Now move to Effects option in the edit section, by using this settings given above image, it will make your photo look crisp and high quality. This includes texture, clarity, vignette and grain.
Texture: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Clarity: +10 (by increasing this values it will get a sharp look)
Dehaze: +10 (increase this value it will give faded studio soft look)
Vignette:-
Amount: -17 (by doing this edges of the photo will be darker and will give a cinematic look)
Midpoint: +31
Feather: +63
Roundness: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Highlights: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Grain:-
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Step 4: Settings for Details
Sharpening
Amount: +12 (it will give crisp and sharp look)
Radius: +0.70
Detail: +10
Masking: +41
Noise
Noise Reduction: +11 (it will your whole photo a soft look)
Detail: +27 (it will help you to achieve details to your photo)
Contrast: +53 (by increasing this it will boost your colours)
Color Noise
Color Noise Reduction: +37 (it will boost your colours to look premium)
Detail: +17
Smoothness: +78
Optional Step 5: Optics
Turn on or Enable lens corrections to give the final touch to your photos but if you don't want you can skip this step.
By applying all these settings mentioned above you will achieve this look, you can see the final results below.
Preview of Vintage Portrait Tone Lightroom Editing (Before and After)
Note (Changes to make) :
These editing settings are a great starting point to personalize the look further, consider making some adjustments to the following settings.
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Highlights
- Saturation
Most importantly before applying this edits please select a photo which should be an outdoor, nature, adventure, fashion or portrait photos. So, that this edit will look good on it.
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FAQs
Which type of photos will be good for Vintage Portrait tone edit?
Answer: Photos like portrait, retro fashion, vintage photography photos. Before trying this edit please check the before and after result of the edit. Even you can know which type of photo to be used.
Can these settings be used on any photo editing software's?
Answer: We suggest to use Adobe Lightroom Mobile, Adobe Lightroom Desktop and Adobe Photoshop.
Does these settings works for video colour grading also?
Answer: No, These editing settings are only for photos not for video.
Does this edit works for retro, outdoor, vintage photography and fashion photos?
Answer: Yes, this edit is fully compatible for retro photography photos, outdoor vintage, vintage portrait photos, retro fashion images but it will not work for street, night, adventure and urban images.
