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imagine imitating intimate imaging.
rannie has many an interesting link to photography tips, be they film choice, technique or photoshop trickery.
after reading a few of them through and then trying a small subset of them still, i've only successfully managed to pull off the faux lomo photo.
i am of the camp that believes in the lomo camera, but since i can't always have one of the toy ones around, it's nice to play "what if" with any existing photos.
here's one shot from bryant park, back in the sweltering august heat, which i sorely miss as i type.
parts of that just comes from contrast and saturation level changes, but i have to admit the shot becomes more rustic. for those of you who don't want to go through the steps, there's a melancholytron plug-in for photoshop that might make it braindead easy, but i don't feel like messing around with payware or something else that might otherwise freak out my setup.
meanwhile, i still want to get the cross exposure mimic down, but my experiments are, um, too wacky thus far. and this blurring technique doesn't seem to mesh with my first few test photos. but i try.
meanwhile, some photos don't need any doctoring at all (via kottke), except by conveniently adding yourself to the shot. inconspicuously yet casually, like you would be as a party circuit veteran.
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the faux lomo link has passed on, but thanks to the internet archive, the instructions can live on:
Here are the actions
In case you didn't know, put them in .../Photoshop/Presets/Photoshop Actions/
Enjoy!
Here is the "old" tutorial, it is more size/shape sensative than the actions, so it may benefit you to download them anyway.
File: Open: the picture you want
Image: Adjustments: Brightness/Contrast: increase contrast by 20
Image: Adjustments: Hue/Saturation: increase saturation by 20
Choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool (your basic selection tool)
Change feather amount to 1/12 the width of your picture (if your picture is 600px wide, as all mine are, then you will set your feather to 50px.
Select your entire picture note: using select: all, will not work
Select: Inverse
Layer: New: Layer
Change your primary color to black. Fill the selection (on the new, blank layer).
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Layer: Duplicate Layer
Now select your base layer (the one with the picture on it).
Layer: New: Layer
Change your fill tool to Gradient
Change your Gradient Type to Spherical
Change your Gradient Shading Style to "foreground to transparent" (I believe this is the default).
Change your primary color to white.
With the fill tool selected, click in the middle of the picture, and drag the line out to the farthest edge of your picture (if it's a portrait, use top or bottom, if landscape, use left or right).
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Change the Opacity of this layer to 80% (or whatever you see fit, you'll see what I mean).
Now you are actually pretty much done. You can merge the layers together if you wish. I hope this was easy enough to understand. I may have made it much more difficult than it should be, but I don't know enough about photoshop to make it any easier on myself. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, I would be happy to help. I will try to make my actions available by the end of next week.
