11/06/2008

Playing with PhotoShop

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The "Lomo" Effect. 

Here is a picture I worked on in PhotoShop of Levi. 



Here's how if you have PhotoShop: 
  1. Open Image
  2. Create a Classic Vignette (dark edges) 
  3. Select the Freehand Lasso tool
  4. Set the Feather (top tool bar) to 80-90px
  5. Draw a circle around the photo
  6. Invert the selection (Shift-Ctrl-I)
  7. Add a “Levels” Layer (little half black, half white circle at the bottom of the layers window) 
  8. Adjust to desired darkness (somewhere around .50) 
  9. Merge both layers
  10. Add a “Curves” Layer (same layer button as before)
  11. Make the line be a slanted “s” 
  12. Create a “Solid Color” Layer (same layer button as before) 
  13. Select a Black fill
  14. Double Click the layer to open the 'effects' window and 
change the ‘Blending Mode’ to “Hue” and reduce the opacity to about 40%.
  15. Merge all 3 layers
  16. Go to Image>Mode>Lab Color
  17. Select the “Channel” tab (next to Layer tab on right)
  18. Click on the “Lightness” channel 
  19. Go to Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask
  20. Set Amount to 50% (or whatever you want), Set Radius to 50%, and Threshold to 0
  21. Go to Image>Mode>RGB Color 
  22. Save.

1 comments:

Kami said...

It's pretty useful. That's how we edit our photos of the internet in GT class.

November 08, 2008 9:11 AM  

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