Kodak Portra 400 look for Lightroom & Sony Alpha
Portra 400 is the portrait negative most digital shooters are actually chasing: forgiving latitude, soft contrast, skin that lands warm but never orange, and greens pulled back so they never compete with the subject. Understated by design.
How to shoot and edit it
- Overexpose slightly. Portra's signature comes from a dense negative, which means bright midtones.
- Keep greens muted — that restraint is what separates Portra from a generic warm preset.
- Add grain sparingly. At 400 speed it is present but fine.
What you'll get
A Lightroom Classic preset you can import as a .xmp, a Sony Alpha Creative Look recipe for new-menu bodies, and a Picture Profile recipe that works on every Alpha back to the A7 III — all tuned to this look, in one generation.
Generate it nowRelated looks
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Gold 200 is the drugstore film that turned into an aesthetic: a golden overall cast, punchy yellows and reds, shadows that lean slightly green, and blacks that never quite reach black. Cheap film chemistry became a look people now deliberately buy.
Make your own version of Kodak Portra 400 look
Adjust the description, add a reference photo, or import a preset you already own — Preset Lab returns the Lightroom values and the in-camera settings together.
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