How can I create a vintage portrait look in Lightroom?

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I’d like to give modern portraits a vintage atmosphere similar to an old print/film look. Is there a built-in or well-known Lightroom preset for this, or is it better to build the effect manually? I’m especially interested in the warm tones, lower saturation, grain, and textured background look.

user85449 · Accepted Answer

This effect can be obtained with adjustment layers, with the advantage that these layers can be applied to different images without altering the original. Of course, the type of shot and scene influence the final result. Starting from this image

First of all, the example photo has grain. This is obtained with a layer, gray 50%, with a noise filter 12%, Soft light mode

Adding an adjustment photo filter layer, dark brown color (#362221 in this example) at 90%, Saturation mode:

Desaturate the photo with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, saturation= -30%:

To even out the yellowish-white of the paper, another photo filter adjustment layer, yellow (#ffe243) at 25%:

Edit after @Tetsujin comment

I didn't see it, there's a texture of brush strokes throughout the photograph except for the skin of the model. A top layer with the masked models filled with a pattern of this texture, overlay, 25%

How can I create a vintage portrait look in Lightroom?

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