Forthcoming Video Tutorials
Submitted by mitch on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 20:38.
Chat with me about this, if you would. I have a couple of new video tutorials planned for this coming week or two.
Giving Photographs An Aged Appearance
You can age a photo quickly by converting to B&W, applying a sepia tone, and adding some noise. The problem: the effect is not all that realistic. I'll show viewers how to create a faux aged effect with the following steps:
- Convert to B&W
- Apply sepia effect
- Apply film grain to an Overlay layer and apply Gaussian Blur for more realistic film grain effect
- Discard detail in the extreme highlights and shadows
- Fade the image with Levels Output sliders
- Apply a gradient for a gradual fade or radial fade from a light source
- Add yellow-brown tint to highlight fade
- Add a bit of handwriting for old-fashioned appearance.
- Fade handwriting
- Use Clouds filter to add random damage marks
Dragan Effect
Add a grungy, dramatic effect to portraits.
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Dragan Effect
Hi Mitch,
would love to learn more about the Dragan effect. I do like this pictures and their processing, and I also tried some presets for LightZone (one of the other image tweaking softwares that I use), but nothing actually came close to the original look. So, this would be a fantastic one to learn more about and try with some of the portraits that I had done. If you need a "guineapig" to try some thing or even process an image to post as an example, let me know.
Best regards, Thorsten