A vintage photo filter that never sees your photo
A free vintage filter for photos: faded film, 70s warm, sepia, instant or black and white, with real film grain and a vignette. Online, on your own device, nothing uploaded.
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Your image never leaves your browser — read and filtered on your own device, and nothing is uploaded to us or anyone else.
How to add a vintage filter to a photo
- Step 1
Add the photo
Drop it in, paste it, or pick a file. It's read on your device and never uploaded.
- Step 2
Pick a look
5 looks: faded film, 70s warm, sepia, instant, black & white. Each one sets the colour cast and the tone curve together.
- Step 3
Tune strength, grain and vignette
Strength blends back towards the original. Grain adds film texture in brightness only, the way real film does. Vignette darkens the corners.
- Step 4
Preview, then download
Compare it with the original side by side, then save it. The download matches the preview exactly, grain included.
The five looks, and what each one does
| Look | What it does |
|---|---|
| Faded film | Lifted blacks, warm highlights |
| 70s warm | Golden, soft and a little washed |
| Sepia | The classic brown print |
| Instant | Cool shadows, creamy highlights |
| Black & white | Silver print with grain |
A vintage photo filter is mostly a tone curve, not a tint. Old prints never reach true black or pure white: the blacks are lifted and the highlights roll off, and that soft, low-contrast range is what the eye reads as old. The colour cast comes on top, and the grain last: real film grain is clumps of silver or dye in the emulsion, so it varies the brightness rather than the colour, which is how it's added here. The darker corners copy vignetting, the fall-off old lenses had towards the edge of the frame.
Sepia uses the standard sepia colour matrix that photo editors have used for decades. The others keep some of the photo's own colour and shift it, which is why they look like ageing film rather than a brown wash.
Want the whole scene re-imagined instead, clothes and hair and all? The 80s AI photo generator puts you in a 1985 snapshot with AI. To bring a faded old print back the other way, try photo restoration or the photo colorizer.
Frequently asked questions
How do I add a vintage filter to a photo for free?
Add the photo here, pick a look such as Faded film or Sepia, adjust the sliders if you like, and press Download. It runs in your browser with no app, and you need a free Leaxor account to use it.
What makes a photo look vintage?
Mostly the tone, not the tint. Old prints have lifted blacks that never reach true black and soft highlights that never reach pure white, plus a colour cast as the dyes age, and grain. Each look here changes all of those at once, which is why it reads as old rather than just brown.
What's the difference between sepia and faded film?
Sepia turns the photo into a single brown tone, like an old toned print. Faded film keeps the colours but mutes them, warms the highlights and lifts the shadows, like a 1970s or 80s colour print that has sat in an album.
What app makes photos look vintage?
You don't need one. This page applies the filter in your phone's or computer's browser, with no install. Phone camera apps and editors also have retro presets; the difference here is the control over strength, grain and vignette, and that the photo never leaves your device.
Where can I find a free vintage filter online?
Right here: add a photo, pick a look and download it. The filter itself is free; you need a free Leaxor account to use the tool, and nothing is uploaded.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The filter runs on your own device's processor in the browser, and the photo is never sent to us or anyone else.
Can I make my photo look like it was taken in the 80s?
This filter changes the look of the photo you have. If you want an AI to re-imagine you in a 1985 snapshot, with the clothes, hair and flash of the time, that's the 80s AI photo generator, which runs an AI model on each photo and is priced on its own page.
Does it work on iPhone photos?
Yes. iPhone photos, JPG, PNG and WebP all open, and the result is saved as a high-quality JPG. On a phone, Download opens the share sheet so you can save to Photos.
Other image tools
Or make the vintage photo from scratch.
Describe the scene and the decade, and Leaxor's image models draw it. Then animate it into a clip on the same account.
See the image generator