Kodak Portra 400 — what was once a name known only to film photographers has now found a place among digital photographers around the world.

Known for its professional use in the film world due to its balanced and vivid tones, user-friendly nature, and remarkable exposure latitude, Portra 400 has seamlessly moved into the digital realm through photography presets.

If you’re looking to replicate the Kodak Portra 400 look in your digital photos but unsure where to start, look no further! Whether you shoot landscapes, portraits, urban scenes, or anything in between, our curated list of Portra 400 Lightroom presets and filters will guide you through capturing that iconic Portra look in your digital photos.

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All-in-One Portra Lightroom Preset Pack

Get the iconic look of Kodak Portra film with the Ultimate Portra Preset Pack! This collection of 16 presets is a tribute to the charm of Portra, including 160, 400 and 800. Whether capturing sun-kissed beach days, serene sunsets, or portraits of your loved ones, these presets infuse each photo with that Portra touch. With just one click, transform your photos by blending their original beauty with the timeless aesthetic of Portra.

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Ultimate Portra Lightroom Presets

Portra Film Look Lightroom Presets

Recreate the charm of Portra with this Portra 400 film emulation preset pack! These 3 presets for Lightroom desktop and mobile blend a vibrant, retro palette into your photos, making them perfect for naturally-lit portraits, landscapes, and travel shots. Elevate your photos with the rich, punchy tones and timeless beauty of Kodak’s most popular film stock!

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Portra Film Look Lightroom Presets

Lightroom Analog Preset Pack

Bring the perfect analog charm to your photos with this Lightroom Analog Preset Pack, featuring 35 presets crafted exclusively for desktop. This collection offers both color and black and white looks inspired by iconic film stocks, including Portra. Perfect for photographers of all levels, each preset provides a simple color profile and texture conversions, adding the authentic film look to any of your digital photos!

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Lightroom Analog Preset Pack

Indie Vibe Portra Presets

Add a touch of indie vibes to your photos with this indie-inspired Portra pack. This pack of 9 presets captures the soft colors, natural skin tones, and subtle grain of Kodak Portra film — perfect for rustic and wilderness settings. With options for muted black tones or rich contrast, these presets suit a variety of lighting conditions and enhance portraits, lifestyle, travel, and more, with a unique, film-inspired finish.

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Indie Vibe Portra Presets

Pushed Portra 400+ Preset Pack

Capture the flexibility and warmth of Portra 400 film with the versatile Pushed Portra 400+ preset pack. With 20 Lightroom presets, these edits are designed to replicate the medium contrast and warm tones of Portra, ideal for both outdoor and lower-light shooting. Perfectly recreating the technique of ‘pushing’ film, these presets mimic increased film sensitivity for enhanced exposure latitude — making it easier to achieve fine-grain results across changing lighting conditions.

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Pushed Portra 400+ Preset Pack

Cool Toned Portra Lightroom Presets

Add a subtle, cool blued twist to the classic Portra look with this cool-toned Kodak film preset pack. These 10 presets reduce vibrancy and emphasize cool blue tones, adding a faded, film-like finish to photos. Perfect for creating a softer, understated aesthetic while maintaining Portra’s signature color fidelity.

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Cool Toned Portra Lightroom Presets

Vibrant Portra 400 Lightroom Preset Pack

Embrace the iconic Portra look with this vibrant Portra 400 Lightroom preset pack. These 15 presets, along with 5 grain texture adjustments, bring Kodak’s signature warmth and color depth to your photos. From soft, natural tones to high-contrast, vibrant hues, each preset celebrates Portra’s classic feel, enhancing skin tones and adding a beautiful, organic quality to every shot.

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Vibrant Portra 400 Lightroom Preset Pack

Portra Presets Bundle

This Portra preset bundle comes with a versatile collection of 13 presets for Lightroom desktop and mobile. Inspired by the daylight-balanced characteristics of Kodak Portra film, these presets add that iconic Portra vibrancy and texture to your photos. They’re optimized particularly for portrait photos, ensuring skin tones are rendered naturally, without heavy alterations. This bundle brings a blend of that classic film look with digital precision!

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Portra Presets Bundle for Lightroom

Warm & Vibrant Portra Presets

Experience the rich colors of film photos with these warm & vibrant Portra presets. This collection offers 10 presets for Lightroom desktop and mobile. Designed to mimic the Portra film look, these presets focus on warmth and saturation, enhancing the earthy tones of brown, yellow and orange. They’ve been tested in a wide variety of photos, from intimate portraits to sprawling landscapes, ensuring every shot is infused with a cozy, vivid vibe.

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Warm and Vibrant Portra Presets for Lightroom

Kodak Portra 800 Preset Pack

Get yourself the classic high ISO Portra look with this Kodak Portra 800 preset pack. This 5 preset pack draws inspiration from the characteristics of Portra 800 film. These presets enhance warmth while deepening contrast, making them ideal for portrait photography. Recreate the essence of Portra’s beloved look in your digital photos by adding a touch of timeless film to those portraits.

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Kodak Portra 800 Preset Pack

Kodak Portra V2 Preset

The Kodak Portra V2 preset is a singular Lightroom preset for desktop that masterfully recreates the film aesthetic of Kodak Portra. This preset adopts a muted approach to saturation, delivering a refined, understated elegance. It fades the shadows, adding depth and character to your photos. A unique feature of this preset is its ‘film amount’ adjustment, granting you flexibility to tweak the strength of the effect, ensuring your photos get the Portra look with just the right intensity.

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Kodak Portra Muted Presets

Pastel Portra Presets

Dive into the delicate hues of these Pastel Portra presets, a collection of 9 Lightroom presets available for Lightroom desktop and mobile. These presets are an homage to Portra film, adapted for a variety of photo styles, including studio work, lifestyle photos, and travel. They offer a stunning pastel look, subtly fading saturation in certain colors while accentuating blues and skin tones. This balance creates a soft, yet vibrant look, adding a touch of film elegance to your photos.

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Portra Pasel Preset Pack

Kodak Portra Pro Presets

Explore the rich legacy of Kodak film with these Kodak Portra Pro presets, exclusive for Lightroom desktop only. This pack comes with 10 presets, each designed to replicate the full range of Portra film stocks from 160 to 400 and 800. Dive into the authentic classic feel, characterized by a subtly faded saturation that embodies the vintage, unaltered Portra look.

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Kodak Portra Pro Presets for Lightroom

Kodak Portra Film Presets

Discover the essence of film photos with this extensive 20 preset pack for Lightroom desktop. This pack spans the full spectrum of Portra film, from 160 to 400 and 800. These presets stand out for their realistic emulation of the classic Portra look, avoiding excessive editing in favor of maintaining natural, authentic tones. Whether you’re a pro or just a beginning enthusiast, these presets bring the timeless beauty of Portra to your digital editing workflow.

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Portra Film Look Presets

Enhance your portrait photos with these Portra Lightroom presets. These presets are designed to emulated the faded, classic look of Portra film, making them ideal for portrait photos. They’re crafted to not only respect, but also enhance natural skin tones, ensuring your model looks their best. Additionally, these presets subtly add a beautiful blue overtone, adding a serene and balanced feel to your photos.

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Portra Film Look Presets

Vibrant Portra Preset Pack

This select suite of 3 Lightroom presets will bring a high-quality, studio level finish to your portrait photography. The presets are designed to ensure flawless skin tones and adaptability with various lighting conditions. Beyond portraits, they excel in bringing out the rich tones of landscape and urban photos, making them a versatile set for photographers looking to add vibrancy and depth to an array of subjects.

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Vibrant Portra Preset Pack

Kodak Portra Warm Presets

The single Kodak Portra Warm preset for Lightroom desktop enhances the warmth of the classic Portra 400 look. This preset increases the temperature, enriching warm colors from inviting browns to vibrant yellows and rich oranges. It’s an ideal choice for capturing golden hour or adding a sun-kissed glow to portraits, ensuring each photo radiates with warmth and depth.

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Kodak Portra Warm Presets

Retro Portra 400 Presets

This trio of Portra 400 presets for Lightroom desktop and mobile are crafted to blend effortlessly into your workflow. The presets are versatile in various lighting and color conditions, with a special focus on enhancing portraits. They bring out warm tints in skin tones, faithfully recreating that beloved Portra 400 look in every shot.

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Kodak Portra 400 Preset by El Oasis Market

Cool Toned Portra 400 Lightroom Presets

This preset pack perfectly handles both over and under exposure, channeling the Portra 400 versatility into your digital photos. These presets are crafted to replicate the light and airy feel synonymous with Portra film in bright settings, especially when overexposed by a stop or two. The result? Bright, vibrant, and rich detailed photos that bring the classic Portra look to life.

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Portra 400 Lightroom Presets by Daily Creativo

Moody Kodak Portra 400 Presets

Moving from bright and airy, these presets introduce a darker, more contrast-rich Portra look. This collection emulates Portra 400 film when underexposed by a stop or two. In traditional film, underexposure results in a darker, moodier aesthetic, and this preset pack replicates that effect, bringing deeper, more dramatic tones to your photos.

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Coloritual’s Kodak Portra 400 Preset

Bold Kodak Film Lightroom Presets Bundle

This loaded Portra Lightroom preset pack offers the complete lineup: Portra 160, 400 and 800. Its standout feature is its customizability, allowing you to fine-tune the film effect to complement, not overpower, your digital photos. The presets preserve your photo’s original integrity while infusing them with that analog Portra charm. A perfect tool to rediscover and enhance your photos.

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Kodak Mobile Presets (Portra 400 Included)

Embrace warmth with this Kodak mobile preset pack, featuring 10 presets that mimic that Portra style. These presets are versatile, enhancing any photo, from portraits to lifestyle and even blog photos. They bring out the warmth in tones, adding subtle grain and exposure adjustments for a true film-like appearance. Perfect for giving your mobile photos a classic, warm film touch.

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Kodak Mobile Presets (Portra 400 Included)

Golden Kodak Portra Presets

These presets replicate the look of Portra 400 film with a golden twist, offering color grading, lighting adjustments, and grain levels that mirror film photography. Loaded with 10 presets for Lightroom desktop and mobile, these presets add punchy tones, soft contrast and balanced highlights and shadows to photos. If Portra 400 film is out of reach, then these presets are your perfect digital alternative.

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Golden Kodak Portra Presets

Portra 400 Flash Presets

Capture the charm of flash-lit photos with these Portra 400 presets. They work best when used with flash photography, perfectly suited for snapping vibrant and candid moments. Transform your digital photos with a click, combining them with the nostalgic, vivid look of flash-lit film.

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Portra 400 Flash Presets

Light & Airy Portra 400 Presets

These 6 Lightroom presets capture the essence of Portra 400, especially designed for lighter and airier settings. Perfect for bright interiors, overcast days, or portraits in well-lit environments, they infuse your photos with the Portra 400 look, emphasizing light and brightness. Ideal for transforming those vibrant, light-filled photos into pieces of art.

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Light & Airy Portra 400 Presets

Portra 400 Film Emulation Presets

Featuring a diverse range of presets, these edits emulate popular Kodak and Fuji film stocks, with a special nod to Portra 400. The demo images vividly show their versatility and adaptability to everything from portraits to landscapes and the myriad of colors around you. Whatever the subject, these presets are equipped to enhance and transform your photos with a touch of film-like magic.

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Portra 400 Film Emulation Presets

Portra 400 & More Film Bundle

This wide-ranged preset pack comes with not only Kodak Portra, but also Fujifilm and Ilford Presets. The Portra presets capture the essence of Portra 400 perfectly, complete with accurate tones, shadows and highlights. The pack also includes matte overlays that mimic expired film’s faded look. Covering a spectrum from Portra 160 to 800 speeds, this pack is a versatile tool for achieving a variety of film aesthetics in your photos.

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Portra 400 & More Film Bundle

Muted Portra 400 Presets

This preset pack’s approach to recreating Portra 400 is designed to suit a broad spectrum of photo styles, from vibrant street scenes and landscapes to the beauty of nature and intimate portraits. It creates a distinct muted Portra look, versatile for an array of subjects. Additionally, the pack lets you cool or warm the tones of your photos, along with an optional grain preset for those who favor a grittier look reminiscent of Portra 800.

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Muted Portra 400 Presets

Bright Portra 400 Preset Pack

This Portra 400 preset pack gives a straightforward one-click solution, effortlessly converting your digital photos into film with the classic Portra look. It accentuates the blues while refining the warm yellows and oranges, crafting a balance that is both striking and authentic. It’s a simple, yet effective way to infuse your digital photos with that Portra charm.

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Bright Portra 400 Preset Pack

Saturated Portra 400 Preset Pack

Loaded with 15 presets, this collection recreates the Kodak Portra aesthetic perfectly. The pack provides an expansive selection of color and grain adjustments along with a wide range of lighting options. The versatility comes from choosing your favorite preset and then fine-tuning it to achieve your desired look. This pack is all about exploring and finding the right Portra inspired touch for your photos.

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Saturated Portra 400 Preset Pack

E-Chrome Lightroom Presets

The E-Chrome Lightroom preset pack is a collection that celebrates favorite films from Kodak and Fuji. Central to this pack is the ‘Perfect Portra’ preset which is designed to recreate the Portra look with precision. However, don’t be shy to explore others like ‘Extra Golden Kodak’ for a sun-kissed feel, and ‘Moody Fuji Superia’ for a deeper, more intense mood. Each preset is designed to offer a unique film touch to your digital photos.

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E-Chrome Lightroom Presets

Film Look Portra 400 Presets

This Film Bundle of presets for Lightroom delivers an extensive package of 40 presets. Besides Portra 400, this pack includes presets inspired by Fuji film stocks and Polaroid. It enhances your creative control with 12 additional grain setting presets, letting you fine-tune the film grain in your photos. Ideal for photographers looking for a wide range of film styles.

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Portra 400 Preset (from Lightroom Presets Bundle)

Free Portra 400 Presets

Are you on the fence about which of these Portra 400 presets to go with? Don’t stress! We’ve got a few free Portra 400 preset options below for you to try out.

Free Summer Portra Preset

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Free Portra Summer Preset

Free Portra 400 Preset

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Free Portra 400 Preset

Kodak Crisp Free Preset

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Kodak Crisp Free Preset

Free Kodak Portra 400 Preset

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Free Kodak Portra 400 Preset

Free Portra 400 Film Preset

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Free Portra 400 Film Preset

Why is Portra 400 So Popular?

Now if you’re curious, here’s why Portra has become so known. Kodak Portra 400 is a favorite among photographers since its latest emulsion release in 2010. This film has earned a special place in the hearts of photographers, from professionals to enthusiasts for a myriad of reasons.

  • Portrait Photography Design: Tailored for portraits, Portra 400 excels in capturing skin tones naturally, ensuring people look their best no matter the lighting conditions, from soft indoor ambiance to bright outdoor settings to specific studio setups.
  • Box Speed & Fine Grain: With a box speed of 400 and a finely tuned grain, this film is designed to be scanned, providing high-quality digital copies without losing the essence of that film look.
  • Exposure Latitude & Colors: Portra 400’s great exposure latitude allows for a range of exposures without losing details. Its muted colors and signature Kodak warmth give photos a timeless look.
  • Versatile Beyond Portraits: Initially designed for portraits and studio work, Portra 400’s versatility expands to other photography needs, including nature, lifestyle and architecture, making it ideal for various scenarios.

Portra 400’s versatility and flattering tones make it a superb film for all photography types. However, its rising cost has become a barrier over the years. This is where presets that emulate the look of Portra 400 come into play. Through the presets listed above, you’ll be able to achieve the timeless aesthetic of Portra 400 with your digital photography!


Which Portra 400 preset is your favorite? Are there any that we’re missing? Let us know in the comments below!

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