Jitu’s
Creative Works: How
to convert a simple digital image into complete retro analog images with
addition to some vignette, blur and lighting effects.
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By
Abhijit Kumar Misra
I recorded all the steps and saved the file in .psd format so that you
can refer when you needed. I am not a skilled Photo designer and a certified
Photoshop user. Neither I did any kind of learning course on this application
nor did I consider myself a good designer. What I written below is a outcome of
my experiment which is based on the little knowledge I have on PSD and I
believe that there are many scopes of improvements and further modification.
In free times; I prefer to spend my times in experimenting images in
Photoshop. Thanks to Google for YouTube, Lynda for online video Library and
various e-books without which this would not have been so easy and refined.
Well work load killing the free times and I am losing my passion somewhere!
Anyways, follow the following steps:-
1.
Open the picture in Photoshop.
2.
Crop the image and use
Hue/Saturation to give it a reddish look and Liquefy it where you find necessary.
3.
Use tools like Clone Stamp and Spot
Healing Brush to erase the unnecessary marks. I have a red mark on my forehead
and a flower over my right ear.
4.
Make a copy of the original image
by pressing "Ctrl + J" and rename it as ORIGINAL.
5.
Click on the adjustment layer
icon and select “Curves” from the Menu.
a.
Select the red channel and shift
the upper and lower corner a little bit to darkling the darker areas and
lighting the lighter areas of the images.
b.
Select the green channel and do
the inverse of the above to make the image looks more vibrant and effective.
c.
Now select the blue channel and
repeat the step b. Also shift the lower end point a bit to enhance the darker
areas.
6.
Click on the third icon from the
left in the adjustment pallet which when done will affect all the layers below
the existing layers.
7.
Click on the new layer icon to
add a new layer.
8.
Click on the foreground colour
and then select 300% for Hue, 100% for Saturation and 100% for Brightness and
then click OK. Press Alt + Delete to fill it with the colour. Select Soft light
for the blending mode from the menu. Bring down the opacity to 20%.
9.
Press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E to
get a composite snap shot of the image and then press Ctrl + J to make a copy.
Now go to Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur and blur the image to 5 pixels.
10.
We are going to blur the edges of
the image so click on Add Layer Mask from the layer tab and press B to select
brush tool. Now paint the middle area of the images that needs to be
highlighted.
(Make sure
your foreground colour is black and opacity is set to 100 %)
11.
Click the new layer icon to add a
new layer and then click on the foreground colour to pop – up the colour picker
box and select the red and draw as shown in the given picture. Select blending
mode to linear dodge and opacity to 75%.
12.
Press Alt + Ctrl + Shift + E to
make a snap shot and add a new layer.
13.
Now go to Elliptical Marque Tool
and draw a circle by dragging from the upper left corner to lower right corner.
Then go to Select – Transform Selection and make the necessary adjustments and
then press enter to accept the adjustments.
14.
Now go to Select – Refine Edge
and shift feather up to 118% and Shift the Edges to 90% & Click OK to
accept. We need to invert the selection so I am gonna press Ctrl + Shift + I.
Press Alt + Delete to fill it with black. Finally Press Ctrl + D to get rid of
the selection. Change the blending mode to Soft Light and Opacity to 70%.
15.
Press Alt + Ctrl + Shift + E
again to make a snap shot and add a new layer. Press B for brush tool and press
] to change the size of the brush. Click once or twice on the porting you
wanted to highlight. Select Soft Light for the blending mode and opacity to
70%.
16.
Take another composite snap shot.
Open the colour picker box and select Yellow or # eee000 and press OK. Press
Alt + J to fill the new layer with yellow colour. Select Soft light and bring
down the opacity to 60%. This will give a yellowish touch and give a view of
older authentic photo.
17.
You are almost done. To give an old
photo look to your image you can use any texture. Instead of filled colour
shown above you can copy the texture (Ctrl + A = Select and Ctrl + C = Copy)
image and paste (Crtl + V) in a new layer. Use soft light and necessary opacity
settings to give a final look.
