Old Film Look in PS? 1212 Responses

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fredddddd
What's the best way to get an old film look in Photoshop? or another program?
Decrease saturation, add noise, and save low resolution?
Like these:

Jun 29, 12, 6:07 p.m. – Permalink
nb
The top image has been be colourized from the original black and white film. You could desaturate completely and then paint the colours in by hand. Create a new layer, set it to colour, and use your brush tool.
- but haven't we executed Ted Turner for this by now?– CyBrainX
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 6:10 p.m. – Permalink
ETM
Ah, no. Although your technique suggestion is sound, the Wizard of Oz is not a colorized fllm. It was shot in three-strip Technicolor on set. The black and white sequences for enhanced with a sepia tone.
- for enhanced = were enhanced– ETM1/2
  That's true. It's only black and white in Kansas– CyBrainX2/2
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 6:29 p.m. – Permalink
ETM
Digital Film Grain
http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/0…
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 6:31 p.m. – Permalink
fredddddd
Thank you for the info. Is it possible to do the bottom one in photoshop from a normal photo without it looking fake?
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 6:32 p.m. – Permalink
lvl_13
sure. just mess around with levels/layers styles with noise.
could also duplicate a layer blur it a bit and then set it a couple pixels off with it's opacity turned down.
just mess around!
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 6:36 p.m. – Permalink
inteliboy
That digital film grain tute looks like a bad hipstamatic filter.
To get that technicolor look - painting in a b&w layer actually will work well as the colour was very separated and rich. Then perhaps have the original colour version as 30% opacity on top to dial it back a bit.
Grain, blur, film scratches are easy stuff to add on at the end.
- He's looking for an aged looked, not just by the coloration.– ETM
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 6:44 p.m. – Permalink
mikotondria3
Playing around with the channels in curves is always fun.
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Dog-earJun 29, 12, 11:32 p.m. – Permalink
fadein11
bottom picture doesn't look like an old photo - looks like a photo off screen of a VHS tape playing an old film - a lot going on.
- <– moldero
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Dog-earJun 30, 12, 1:34 a.m. – Permalink
kalkal
There's actually a Wizard of Oz preset within the Alienskin Exposure plugin for photoshop.
- http://www.alienskin…
  The last image– kalkal1/6
  How convincing it is, is very reliant on what sort of source material you have– kalkal2/6
  I haven't used Alien Skin in over 10 years. They look so cheesy these days.– fooler3/6
  This isn't like their older cheesy plugins, it's actually alright. I agree with you that they used to be terrible and still have some pretty bad cheesy plugins, exposure is good– kalkal4/6
  some pretty bad cheesy plugins, exposure is good– kalkal5/6
  Exposure looks ok but I haven't seen anyone use chrome bevels and drops shadows in decades.– fooler6/6
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Dog-earJun 30, 12, 5:12 a.m. – Permalink
utopian
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…
http://www.biorust.com/tutorials…
http://aceinfowayindia.com/blog/…
http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/blog/c…
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Dog-earJun 30, 12, 8:29 a.m. – Permalink
pumpaction
The first step would be to crush the blacks
- lol– sublocked
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Dog-earJun 30, 12, 1:51 p.m. – Permalink
fresnobob
for the black and white one, try printing it out with a fast/shitty print setting on your printer, and then scan your print, and then mess with the levels. if its still too clean and new looking, repeat as necessary... You can try not closing the scanner lid and bending/crumpling the print out so you get some natural blurry spots and a slight distortion.
- Proper thinking.– mikotondria3
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Dog-earJun 30, 12, 6:16 p.m. – Permalink

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