Using Textures To Enhance Photos.
Jul 29, 2009 Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials
I have always wanted to try adding textures to my photos but I’m not sure how to go about it. I come across a tutorial on how to add textures to photographs from Digital Photography School and I am surely going to try this soon. The article said that there are tons of freebie textures from Flickr and Deviantart. And I’m now off to hunt for these free textures.
9 Photoshop Techniques.
Dec 1, 2008 Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials, Tips & Techniques
I was browsing my bloglines clippings and came across these great post-processing tips.
High Contrast Color.
Boosting the contrast in a color photo can produce some stunning results. Bump up the contrast, play with the colors, and add that sort of “grunge” mood to your photo.
Vintage Look.
Making a photo look older than it really is gives it a lot of character and mood. To get this look, you can toy with color saturation, color tinting, and adding imperfections.
Lomo Look.
The real lomo photos have a very distinct look to them, but it’s a look that can be replicated through post-processing. They tend to be saturated in a very interesting way.
You can find more tips and photos at Epic Edits blog.
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.
