Rich slide film tones with characteristic colour rendering for analogically warm photography.
- XMP · Lightroom Classic, CC & Camera Raw
- .costyle · Capture One
- .cube · 3D LUT (DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro)
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Slide Film
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Character and mood
Slide Film gives your digital photos the feel of scanned transparencies. Not a quick filter draped over an image, but a colour profile that works from within. The tones are warm, full and just slightly oversaturated for reality, yet precisely saturated enough to feel believable. That is exactly what classic slide film did: make the world look a little better than it actually was.
Technically, the preset pulls the highlights back slightly and pushes the shadows toward a warm, deep undertone. The midtones gain body. Reds and oranges become richer, blues cool down subtly, and the contrast between these colours gives the image a three-dimensional quality. Your photo gains depth without requiring manual adjustments. The colour rendering is reminiscent of Kodachrome or Velvia, but without the exaggerated character those emulations often carry.
The preset works best with photos that have plenty of colour and light. Street photography on a sunny afternoon, portraits in soft backlight, architecture with colourful details or landscapes shot in the late afternoon. Scenes where skin, stone, leaves or metal sit in warm light benefit the most. Flat, grey images with little colour variation give the preset less to work with. It needs something to bring out.
You reach for Slide Film when you want a photo that feels like a memory. Not a cool documentary style, not a hyper-accurate modern colour profile, but something with a little patina. It suits stories you want to keep, images that need to be more than a single moment. If you shoot analogue film and want to process your scanned files further, Slide Film picks up naturally where the film left off.
A practical tip: apply the preset and then lower the saturation by five to ten points if the overall look feels too intense. Slide Film is built with room for personal adjustment. Lifting the exposure slightly opens up the midtones without losing the warm undertone. Try the tint slider as well: a small nudge toward green cools the image down, a nudge toward magenta strengthens the analogue warmth.
Installation
Lightroom Classic & CC (desktop)
Unzip the downloaded file on your computer. Open Lightroom Classic and go to the Develop module. Right-click the Presets panel, choose 'Import Presets', and select the .xmp file. The preset appears in your list immediately and can be applied to any photo straight away.
Lightroom Mobile
Lightroom Mobile syncs presets via the cloud. Import the .xmp file into Lightroom CC on your desktop first. Once cloud sync completes, the preset is automatically available on your phone or tablet. An Adobe CC subscription is required for this sync feature.
Capture One
Unzip the file. Open Capture One and navigate to the Styles panel. Click the arrow next to 'Styles' and choose 'Import Style'. Select the .costyle file. The style is available in your library immediately. Works with Capture One version 21 and later.
DaVinci Resolve / Premiere Pro (3D LUT)
Copy the .cube file to your application's LUT folder. In DaVinci Resolve via Project Settings → Color Management → LUT folders. In Premiere Pro via the Lumetri Color panel → Creative tab → Look → Browse. The LUT works on both LOG and standard exposed video footage.
