Polaroid Filter
The faded, soft, gently warm color of instant film, on any photo.
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Presets in this editor
Polaroid
Loads automatically on this pageWashed instant-film fade with gentle warmth and a soft glow.
The exact values this preset sets, so you can rebuild or tweak it by hand:
iPhone 4
Soft edges, gentle grain, slightly warm 2010s smartphone vibe.
Grain 38 · Softness 32 · Vignette 18
Warm Digicam
Golden-hour point-and-shoot warmth with punchy colors.
Grain 28 · Softness 18 · Warmth 66
Cool CCD
Cleaner, slightly cool vintage sensor feel (subtle green/cyan lean).
Grain 22 · Softness 14 · Aberration 12
Flash Pop
Harsh highlights + glow like a built-in flash at night.
Bloom 20 · Grain 18 · Contrast 60
Soft Nostalgia
Dreamy, faded, warm — heavy softness + bloom for a nostalgic vibe.
Softness 48 · Grain 30 · Bloom 26
2000s Y2K
Warm, faded early-digicam color with soft grain and a gentle vignette.
Grain 30 · Fade 18 · Softness 16
Disposable Flash
Hard close-flash glow, warm grain, casual single-use snapshot energy.
Grain 26 · Bloom 24 · Softness 12
Huji-Style
Warm flashed glow with grain, made for the corner date stamp.
Grain 29 · Softness 14 · Bloom 14
Dazz-Style
Cool CCD glow with extra bloom and old-sensor color fringe.
Grain 22 · Bloom 14 · Aberration 13
Kodak Gold
Golden film warmth with soft skin tones and fine grain.
Grain 22 · Warmth 63 · Softness 12
35mm Film
Fine grain and restrained, true-to-life analog color.
Grain 25 · Softness 14 · Vignette 8
Film Grain
Fine, even film texture over otherwise natural color.
Grain 35 · Softness 10 · Fade 10
Lomo Punch
Dark toy-camera vignette with loud, punchy color.
Vignette 30 · Grain 23 · Saturation 62
Vintage Fade
Old-print warmth with lifted blacks and darkened corners.
Grain 28 · Fade 21 · Softness 20
Frequently Asked Questions
It recreates the color of Polaroid instant film: lifted blacks so the image looks softly faded, a gentle warmth, muted saturation, a slight glow, and a soft vignette. It is the washed, dreamy look of a developing instant photo.
Not at the moment. This filter focuses on the instant-film color and fade rather than adding a white frame. If you want the border, you can drop the exported image into any frame template afterward.
Add fade to lift the blacks, keep warmth gentle, pull saturation down slightly, and finish with a soft vignette. The faded, low-contrast feel is what separates instant film from a normal photo.
Yes, on mobile and desktop, including HEIC files from an iPhone.
No. All editing happens on your device, and nothing is uploaded.
About This Tool
A Polaroid does not look like a sharp digital photo, and that is the appeal. Instant film lifts the blacks so nothing is truly dark, leans gently warm, keeps color soft and a little muted, and fades toward the edges. The result feels like a memory caught mid-development rather than a crisp snapshot. This page recreates that instant-film color on a modern photo.
Load a photo and the Polaroid preset is applied as a base, soft and faded. The moves that matter are Fade, which lifts the blacks for the washed look, a gentle Warmth, and a small drop in saturation so the color stays soft. A light vignette and a touch of glow finish the instant-film feel.
One honest note: this filter focuses on the instant-film color and fade, not the white Polaroid frame. If you want the classic border, export the image and drop it into any frame template afterward. The hard part, the color and the fade, is what this page does well.
It runs entirely in your browser with no upload, works on mobile and desktop including HEIC, and is free with no sign-up and no watermark.
See the difference
How to get the Polaroid look
- 1
Upload your photo
Everyday shots and portraits suit the soft instant-film feel. Everything stays on your device.
- 2
Start from the Polaroid preset
The Polaroid preset loads automatically, with the blacks lifted for that washed instant-film look. Add more Fade to push it further.
- 3
Keep it gentle, then export
Hold warmth and saturation back so the color stays muted, add a soft vignette, and download at full size.
A Polaroid recipe
Prefer numbers? The faded, low-contrast feel is the whole point, so do not over-correct it.
Polaroid vs the other looks
The Polaroid look is faded, soft, and low in contrast, where the Kodak look is warmer and punchier and the 35mm look is sharper and more neutral. Note that this page does the instant-film color and fade, not the white border frame.
Best retro filter settings for portraits, street, and night
A slider-by-slider guide, including how to keep a faded look from going flat.