Lomography

Added: Mar 14, 2005 Rating:

Level: Experienced Software: Photoshop

Simulate the effects of a high contrast lomo camera.


	1. Open the image for editing.

	2. Duplicate the current layer and set the blending mode to "Overlay".

	3. Add a new "Curves" adjustment layer (Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Curves). Set the "Input" to about "95" and the "Output" to about "150". Click OK.

	4. Create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N) as the top layer.

	5. Select the canvas (Ctrl+A) then border the selection (Select> Modify> Border). The border size you select will be the size of the vignette. Click OK.

	6. Feather the current selection (Ctrl+Alt+D) with the same value you've used to border your previous selection.

	7. Fill in the current selection with the colour black and duplicate the current layer (Ctrl+J).

	8. On the top layer, set the blending mode to "Multiply" and reduce the opacity. Select the layer below and set the blending mode to "Overlay".

	9. Add a "Channel Mixer" adjustment layer (Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Channel Mixer) as the top layer. Select the "Blue" output channel and set the "Blue" to "90%". Click OK.

	10. Rollover the image in this step to see the original image before this technique was applied.