How to Make a Faded Black Effect in Photoshop

Photoshop Photo Effects

Since Photoshop is the preferred tool for creating a wide range of effects among numerous available applications and filters, allowing you to modify the look of any image to match your desired atmosphere, today I will show you how easily you can achieve a Faded Black aesthetic 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.

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.

Step 5

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

Step 6

Expand the "Curve" tab and be sure to select the "Point Curve". Click anywhere inside the curve graphic to add 2 new control points.

Step 7

Set the following Input and Output values for each point:

1. 0 - 30
2. 80 - 65
3. 170 - 175
4. 255 - 240

Step 8

Now expand the "Color Mixer" tab and apply the following settings.

Step 9

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

Step 10

Expand the "Calibration" tab apply the following settings.

Step 11

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 12

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

Step 13

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, open your image in Photoshop and go to Filter > Camera Raw Filter. In the Presets tab, select the "Faded Black" preset we've made in this tutorial and then simply click OK in the Camera Raw window to apply it.