How to Create the Vintage Look - Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to easily create beautiful vintage colors for your photos in #Photoshop without the need for presets!

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0:00 Intro
I have worked on this photo before but decided to give it another try. After playing around with a bunch of camera profiles I had the idea of applying a vintage look on it as the base image with the clouds in the sky was a good starting point. 99% of adjustments were done in the camera raw editor here, so this can easily be done in Lightroom as well.

0:28 1. Basic Adjustments
First, I changed the camera profile to “Modern 08”. This is not in the normal profile drop down menu, but in the bigger menu when clicking the browse button. This profile is the perfect base for the vintage look I was aiming for as it nicely adjusted the colors.

To make it look more authentic I increased the exposure to get a very bright, almost overexposed image. I then reduced the contrast, and further increased this effect by raising the shadows and dropping the dehaze. For a little structure I added clarity.

3:50 2. Tone Curve
I skipped the local adjustments and went straight to the tone curve. Here, I set a point in the middle, then raised the point for the blacks to fade them gently and added another point for the highlights to raise them.

4:47 3. Color Grading
First, in the hue tab, I dropped the yellow hue giving the field in the foreground more orange tones. Then, in the saturation menu, I dropped the yellow saturation slightly. Finally, in the Luminance tab I raised the blue luminance to brighten up the sky and the yellow luminance to brighten up the foreground.

For the split toning I added a warm tone to the highlights.

7:35 4. Photoshop
Here, I added the photo filter adjustment layer and lowered the density quite a bit to not make it too strong. Then, I added a vibrance adjustment layer increasing the overall saturation a bit. Finally, with a hue / saturation adjustment layer, I increased the saturation of the cyan tones.

Видео How to Create the Vintage Look - Photoshop Tutorial канала Christian Möhrle - The Phlog Photography