▷Vintage Photo Editing & Retouching

Learn how to use Luminar Neo’s photo editing features to create a vintage look for your photos. Create a dreamy, black and white filter that makes your images look like they were taken with an old film camera.

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Vintage Photo Editing (Explained)

If you are looking to create a vintage style photo should start by planning the clothing and scene. Even though you could add this effect to any photo, a vintage look is recommended to show, and old style look in both areas, content, and processing.

In this edit I will use an easy workflow thanks to Luminar Neo´s smart AI. To accomplish the result, I will basically convert the photo to black and white, adjust contrast, shadows, add noise and that´s it!!

The fun part is that the software will do all the heavy lifting in converting the image to black and white with just one click.

How to create a vintage photo edit in Luminar Neo

The workflow of a vintage photo editing process is very simple. You will need to focus only in four things:

Contrast: Old photos tend to be low in contrast, so we will be reducing contrast to a point that it looks faded enough.
Shadows: Apart from lowering contrast, I will lighten the sahdows, in other words I don´t want the shadows to be too dark.
Film grain: film noise or grain was always present on pictures shot in the old times. I will add a some of this grain noise to the photo.
Vignette: In this tutorial I used white vignette to simulate photo fading borders, but if you like a dark fade vignette, it will also work.

Let me know in the comments below if are going to use this effect in your photos. Remember that to have a great photo the clothing and scene setting of the subject should match that of an old style.

Until the next straight to the point tutorial!

Blessings,

José

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