LOMO Effect in Photoshop
What follows below was originally on {http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/}
As the site seems down, I decided to post the info, as it might be of interest to others.
Please not that the images are presented at the size of 110×83 (from google) and not the original 300×226 as I did not get the chance to save them.
Visit kottke.org for example photos.
Also see this post regarding more advanced actions which subtly change certain parts of the picture, adds blur, noise and distortion.
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I made some actions for all you fakelomo fans. There are 3 different ones, each give a little different flavor lomo, hope you like them. They should work on any picture, of any dimensions, though for pictures larger than 600×600 I recommend changing the feather amount accordingly. Here are some examples of the effects, original one first, then the 3 types:
Here are the actions
(NOTE: these actions are not the original ones but from www.blancha.com/blog)
In case you didn’t know, put them in …/Photoshop/Presets/Photoshop Actions/
Enjoy!
Here is the "old" tutorial, it is more size/shape sensative than the actions, so it may benefit you to download them anyway.
File: Open: the picture you want
Image: Adjustments: Brightness/Contrast: increase contrast by 20
Image: Adjustments: Hue/Saturation: increase saturation by 20
Choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool (your basic selection tool)
Change feather amount to 1/12 the width of your picture (if your picture is 600px wide, as all mine are, then you will set your feather to 50px.
Select your entire picture note: using select: all, will not work
Select: Inverse
Layer: New: Layer
Change your primary color to black. Fill the selection (on the new, blank layer).
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Layer: Duplicate Layer
Now select your base layer (the one with the picture on it).
Layer: New: Layer
Change your fill tool to Gradient
Change your Gradient Type to Spherical
Change your Gradient Shading Style to “foreground to transparent” (I believe this is the default).
Change your primary color to white.
With the fill tool selected, click in the middle of the picture, and drag the line out to the farthest edge of your picture (if it’s a portrait, use top or bottom, if landscape, use left or right).
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Change the Opacity of this layer to 80% (or whatever you see fit, you’ll see what I mean).
Now you are actually pretty much done. You can merge the layers together if you wish. I hope this was easy enough to understand. I may have made it much more difficult than it should be, but I don’t know enough about photoshop to make it any easier on myself. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, I would be happy to help. I will try to make my actions available by the end of next week.
June 20th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
Faking Lomo
I was browsing around yesterday for good photoblogs when I came across Tracey’s photoblog, Shutterbug. I think a good chunk of her images are amazing. I noticed she took her earlier pictures with the same camera that I use, the…
June 20th, 2004 at 9:07 pm
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to find a site with instructions on how to do the lomo effect and most had the broken link.
July 3rd, 2004 at 2:34 am
I tried to download the actions but when I try to load it I get an error message that says:
“Could not load action because and unexpected end-of-file was encountered.”
I’m not sure if something is wrong with the file, or if it just isn’t downloading completely (it didn’t even take it a second to download)
Is there any place else where I can find this or could it possibly be emailed to me. I’ve been going crazy looking for this. I would be so thankful!
July 4th, 2004 at 2:44 am
Thanks for posting the tutorials and the actions. Unfortunatly I am having the same problem as Laura. Anything you can do to help would be stellar.
Thanks
July 9th, 2004 at 2:53 pm
lomo-effect
一開始是在redscreen的blog看到這一個action in photoshop. 測試過後覺得挺有意思。將一般拍攝效果感覺普普的圖片拿來 ”lomoize”，果然挺有Lomo LC-A那種鮮豔無比、色偏、曝光不準的lomo style. 沒有lomo相機又有興趣的不妨試試看:p。
July 10th, 2004 at 4:25 pm
I got that warning too. I’m using Photoshop CS on XP.
July 11th, 2004 at 12:04 am
same warning as the others teddy. fix it!
note: instead of placing the actions in the given directory, users can simply load it using the actions panel.
If good ol theodore doesn’t fix the file, just make it yourself.
1. in the actions panel, make a new set of actions
2. press the record button (the circle one)
3. follow the instructions to make the ‘lomo’ effect.
4. when complete, press the stop button. and then save the actions.
5. next time you need the actions, simply load it and then press play, and the affect will be applied.
July 11th, 2004 at 6:11 pm
Sorry everyone, thanks tony for posting
Hmm I’ll make a set of actions and upload them soon, I was away in sunny Queensland!! hehe
Edit:
Ok I found someone else with actions.
Or download off this site here.
July 31st, 2004 at 3:21 pm
thx! i dont quite see where to save ‘actions’, or even ‘presets’ on photoshop 5…am i missing something?
September 8th, 2004 at 12:35 pm
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November 1st, 2004 at 11:19 am
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Hi, yoly. I’ve never used Photopaint before so I’m not sure what features it has.
The simplest way to get the lomo effect in any basic photo editor is to increase contrast, increase saturation and darken the corners and edges.
That’s essentially what the above actions do in Photoshop. There are more complicated ways of distorting the image (using other actions, see the other lomo posts on this blog).
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