As a follow up to my previous post, I decided to put a simple tutorial on ow to create a lomo effect for your digital photos — scanned or otherwise. Of course, it won’t be exactly the same as an actual lomo photo, but it pretty much emulates the effect.
So here goes…
- 1. Open your photo to edit. Let’s use this one as a sample.
- 2. Apply a Lens Correction Filter (follow the steps below)
- a. Filter
- b. Distort
- c. Lens Correction
- d. adjust the VIGNETTE and MIDPOINT to your liking
your image should look like this:
- 3. Select the Channels Tab in your workspace and click on the Red Channel
- 4. Adjust the brightness / contrast (follow the steps below)
- a. go to Image
- b. select Adjustments
- c. select Brightness / Conrast
- d. increase the contrast to your liking
- 5. Select the Green Channel and repeat Step 4
- 6. Select the RGB Channel to see the results
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- 7. You can take it a bit further, by Adjusting the Levels (CTRL+L) and use the slider to your liking…
- 8. …and even one step further by placing more color on the photo by Adjusting the Hue / Saturation (CTRL+U)
and your final photo will look like this:
good luck on your experiments… ^_^
McShutterLovin 