How To Color Grade For That Vintage Look We All Love So Much

The Beat recently published a post on how to create the vintage look for our footage.

Vintage-graded image above is from here.

There are nine steps to the process. They are:

1. Use vintage lenses.
2. Keep it (slightly) soft.
3. Use film overlays.
4. Decrease the contrast.
5. Bring up the black levels.
6. Bring down the white levels.
7. Warm up the highlights.
8. Turn down saturation.
9. Add some light leaks.

For more details, check out The Beat article How To Give Your Video a Vintage Look.

I love the vintage look of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. (Image via Google.)