Muted earth tones look for Lightroom & Sony Alpha
The understated travel and lifestyle palette: saturation pulled back everywhere, colour steered toward terracotta and olive, shadows kept warm, skin left natural. Quiet enough to work across a whole feed without any single frame shouting.
How to shoot and edit it
- Its strength is consistency — it holds up across a full set better than a stronger grade.
- Steer greens toward olive; that single move does most of the work.
- Keep skin out of the desaturation, or people start looking ill.
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.
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Classic Chrome is Fujifilm's documentary profile — modelled on the muted, slightly cold rendering of reportage slide film. Saturation drops across the board, shadows pick up a teal cast, greens slide toward olive, and highlights stay clean and faintly warm. It flatters overcast light and city streets far more than bright sun.
Nostalgic Negative is built on American new-colour photography of the seventies: amber shadows, faded lifted blacks, golden skin and a general sense of a print left in a drawer for forty years. Warm without being orange, faded without losing structure.
The last hour before sunset, amplified: amber highlights, glowing skin, soft lifted blacks and just enough haze to feel like the light is physically in the frame. Warm without tipping into orange, soft without going flat.
Make your own version of Muted earth tones 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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