FAKE LOMO TECHNIQUE
File: Open: the picture you want
Image: Adjustments: Brightness/Contrast: increase contrast by 20
(yes, I say never use this… but for this technique, OK)
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
(for my 4000 pixel image I set to the max 250 pixels)
(menu) Select: Inverse
Layer: New: Layer
Change your foreground color to black. Fill the selection (on the new, blank layer). (edit – Fill – black)
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Layer: Duplicate Layer (Command – J)
Now select your base layer (the one with the picture on it).
Layer: New: Layer
Change your paint bucket tool to the Gradient tool
Change your Gradient Type to Radial Gradient or Spherical or?
(I have been playing with this and sometimes I like linear gradient, explore and play)
Change your Gradient Shading Style to “foreground to transparent”
Change your foreground color to white.
With the gradient 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).
you are in control… play with where you place your start point of the gradient.
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay
Change the Opacity of this layer to 80% or less
Make it into an action…
what type of photo is best to start with, a high contrast photo or a low contrast photo?
test them both.
use your raw files. make one version low contrast, one version high contrast, let me know
some skip steps 4-10 explore play this is a start point
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography
http://www.flickr.com/groups/fauxlomo/discuss/104472/
http://www.ehow.com/how_2049862_make-digital-photos-look-like.html
http://www.openobject.org/modmania/Digital_Lomography
http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-getting-that-great-x-pro-lomo-look/
Light leaks
http://lukeroberts.deviantart.com/art/Quicktips-Lomo-Light-Leaks-25341213
http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-light-leaks-pt-1/
http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-light-leaks-pt-2/
http://www.stilljournal.com/default.asp?tid=12
from flickr: Tarkeena says:
Here’s a simple formula for “lomo-izing.” It got it from the “other lomo group” (Lomo Fakers League or something like that.) I use PSP 9, but it should work for other editors.
1. Increase contrast and saturation by 20%
2. On a new layer blended in “Overlay” mode, fill with a black-to-transparent gradient with the black part on the edges and the transparent part in the middle. Rectangular style is best for the gradient. I messed with the built in black fade gradient to reduce the percentage of black to 20 or 30% of total.
3. Gaussian blur the new layer to the maximum extent.
4. Create another new layer blended in Overlay mode. (I place this layer under the black one: don’t know if it really matters.) Fill with a white-to-transparent gradient in spherical mode, with the transparent part of the gradient on the edges. Reduce opacity of this layer to somewhere between 60 and 70%.
