Easily Make a Soft Warm Photo Effect in Photoshop

Photoshop Photo Effects

Lightroom is the perfect tool to post-process your digital images, but since Photoshop is the preferred tool for most designers which rarely makes use of Lightroom, today I will show you how easily you can achieve a Soft Warm photo effect using only Photoshop's Camera RAW Filter. But before we begin, please, keep in mind that every image is unique, so the settings I will show you here should be taken as a basis for all of your images and yours may require some minimal values adjustments on each of the settings, but for sure will work on most of them.

But before we begin, and if you want to follow this tutorial exactly as described, please download the following free image from Pexels: Download.

Step 1

Open your image in Photoshop.

Step 2

Go to Filter > Camera Raw Filter.

Step 3

Expand the "Light" tab and apply the following settings.

Step 4

Now, expand the "Color" tab and apply the following settings to the Vibrance and Saturation options.

Step 5

Next, expand the "Effects" tab and apply the following settings.

Step 6

Expand the "Color Mixer" tab and apply the following settings.

Step 7

Now expand the "Detail" tab and apply the following settings.

Step 8

Before applying the effect to the image, we will save all these settings as a new preset to use it later over any other image. To do that, click on the "More Image Settings" icon and from the dropdown menu select "Create Preset".

Step 9

In the Create Preset window, give your new preset a name, select the following options and click OK.

Step 10

Lastly, simply click OK in the Camera Raw Filter window.

A Final Note:

The next time you want to use this photo effect on any of your pictures, simply open your image in Photoshop and go to Filter > Camera Raw Filter. Go to the Presets tab and select the "Soft Warm" preset we've made in this tutorial, then simply click OK in the Camera Raw window to apply the effect to your image.