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Should I Try Lomo?

Sep 29, 2008 Lomography, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials

While I am still thinking if I should try lomography, I tried editing some photos to make them look like lomo photos.

Edited photo is on the left.

I followed these steps which I got from Photoshop Tutorials.
Creating the vignette:
1. Open a photo to edit.
2. Follow the steps below according to the version of Photoshop:
* Choose Filter> Distort> Lens Correction.
* Inside the Lens Correction filter, adjust the settings in the Vignette section to create the vignette. (Amount is -100, Midpoint is +75}
Adjusting the color:
1. Inside the Channels pallete (Window> Channels), select the red channel.
2. With the red channel selected, use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) and increase the contrast. The higher you set the contrast, the stronger the color effect will be. I found that increasing the contrast by 50 produced the most realistic results.
3. Now select the green channel and use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) to increase the contrast by the same amount you did in the previous step.
4. Select back the RGB channel (Ctrl+~) to view the final results.

These are created at http://www.dumpr.net/lomo.php.