Old Film Look in PS?
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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:
- ETM0
Digital Film Grain
http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/0…
- fredddddd0
Thank you for the info. Is it possible to do the bottom one in photoshop from a normal photo without it looking fake?
- lvl_130
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!
- inteliboy0
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
- mikotondria30
Playing around with the channels in curves is always fun.
- fadein110
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.
- kalkal0
There's actually a Wizard of Oz preset within the Alienskin Exposure plugin for photoshop.
- http://www.alienskin…
The last imagekalkal - How convincing it is, is very reliant on what sort of source material you havekalkal
- I haven't used Alien Skin in over 10 years. They look so cheesy these days.fooler
- 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 goodkalkal
- some pretty bad cheesy plugins, exposure is goodkalkal
- Exposure looks ok but I haven't seen anyone use chrome bevels and drops shadows in decades.fooler
- http://www.alienskin…
- pumpaction1
The first step would be to crush the blacks
- fresnobob0
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.