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Lomography

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Simulate the effects of a high contrast lomo camera.


image 1 1. Open the image for editing.

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

image 3 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.

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

image 5 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.

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

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

image 8 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".

image 9 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.

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