Soft Vintage Glow

This recipe builds on Fujifilm’s Classic Chrome film simulation, known for its muted tones and a nostalgic atmosphere reminiscent of Kodachrome. This recipe softens highlights and shadows to reduce harsh contrasts and preserve detail, while boosting colour and shifting white balance to create a warm tone by increasing the reds and adding richness to blues. A subtle addition of grain provides a tactile, film-like texture.

Overall, this recipe emphasizes a richly toned, vintage-cinematic look with smooth details and pronounced colour depth. The strong colour chrome effects accentuate colour nuances, while reduced clarity and modest grain promote an organic, film-like softness. This recipe is especially beneficial when you want a warm, nostalgic, film-like mood with gentle contrast.

  • Classic Chrome

  • Dynamic Range: DR400

  • Highlight: -2

  • Shadow: -2

  • Colour: +3

  • High ISO NR -4

  • Sharpness: 0

  • Clarity: -3

  • Grain Effect: Weak, Small

  • Colour Chrome Effect: Strong

  • Colour Chrome Effect Blue: Strong

  • White Balance: Daylight, +4 Red, -5 Blue

  • ISO: Auto (minimum of 500)

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Calm harbour with a small white and red boat docked, houses along the shoreline, and a clear sky during sunset.
Structures at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, during sunset, with the sun near the horizon and reflected on the water.
Peggy's Point Lighthouse in the distance at sunset, with colourful Adirondack chairs and wooden tables in the foreground.
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. A seaside house with white wooden siding, a shingled roof, surrounded by a wooden fence, with birds flying overhead at sunset.
Peggy's Point Lighthouse, Nova Scotia, with the sky displaying soft orange and pink hues over the ocean.
Houses on a rocky shoreline in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Calm water at sunset with clear sky.