Vintage Photo Filter
Apply a vintage treatment built from real ingredients: a warm sepia tint, lifted shadows, drained saturation and a soft vignette — each one adjustable. Processed entirely on your device.
Privacy-first: every image is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or transmitted to any server.
What makes a photo look old
A convincing vintage look is not one effect but four small ones, and knowing which is which lets you dial the result rather than accept it. Colors were less saturated on old emulsions and have faded further since. Contrast is lower, because prints lose their deep blacks as they age. The tone drifts warm, from the paper, the dyes and the toning. And the corners fall off darker, because early lenses could not illuminate the whole frame evenly.
This page starts with all four applied gently: partial sepia, reduced saturation, slightly softened contrast, a small brightness lift to keep the shadows from closing up, and a moderate vignette.
Tune it instead of accepting it
Every ingredient stays on its own slider. Push sepia up and saturation down for something closer to a genuine antique print; keep sepia low and lean on the faded contrast for a 1970s snapshot feel; drop the vignette to zero if the darkened corners read as heavy-handed on your image. For a monochrome vintage result, take black & white to 100% and keep the faded contrast and vignette.
Because everything previews live and the compare button shows the original on demand, finding the version you actually like takes a few seconds rather than a round trip through an editor.
Consistent across a set, and completely private
A retro treatment is most convincing when a whole series shares it. Drop in the full set, adjust once, and export them together as a ZIP in JPG, PNG or WebP. No upload, no sign-up and no watermark — the entire effect is rendered by your own browser.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my image uploaded to adjust it?
- No. Every adjustment is computed on a canvas inside your browser, so the photo never leaves your device and no server ever sees it.
- How do I make an image black and white?
- Set the “Black & white” slider to 100% — or click the B&W look, which also adds a little contrast so the result does not look flat. Noir goes further with a much harder contrast curve.
- What does inverting the colors do?
- It replaces every color with its opposite, which turns a photo into a negative: white becomes black, blue becomes orange. It is how you read a scanned film negative, and a quick way to flip a screenshot to a dark version.
- What is the difference between brightness and contrast?
- Brightness moves every tone up or down together, so the whole picture gets lighter or darker. Contrast pushes light and dark tones apart, which adds punch — or, in the negative direction, flattens the image into a soft, hazy look.
- What does Auto levels do?
- It measures each color channel of your photo, ignores the extreme 0.4% at each end, and stretches what is left across the full range. Washed-out, hazy or underexposed shots usually snap back to life with a single click.
- Can I adjust many photos at once?
- Yes. Drop in as many images as you like — the settings apply to all of them, and you can download the results individually or together as a single ZIP.
- Will adjusting reduce quality?
- The adjustment itself works at full resolution with no downscaling. Only the re-encode matters: choose PNG for a lossless result, or keep JPG/WebP at a high quality setting.