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Bringing back the Lomo Effect Tutorial

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Posted by Sasha on Jul 2, 2010 in Basic Tutorials, Downloads, Featured, Headline, Photography, Photoshop | 0 comments

Bringing back the Lomo Effect Tutorial

I recently published an article about a new set of actions that I have created – the Lomo effect action set and I have had a bunch of emails sent through to me asking for a tutorial, showing step by step how to achieve it, so here it is :)

Difficulty: Basic – Intermediate

Completion time: 1/2 to 1 hour

Tools: Adobe PhotoshopCS +

Resources

Your image

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The stock image used for this tutorial is from TwiggXstock and can be found here.

What you’ll be creating

Note: For Mac users, the correspondent keys for CTRL and ALT are CMD and OPTION.

STEP 1

Open the image that you want to create the lomo effect in photoshop and apply a brightness/contrast adjustment layer.

The settings that I used:

Brightness – 10

Contrast – 10

STEP 2

Then apply the following settings to a levels  adjustment layer.

The settings that I used:

Red Channel – shadow input level -39 and highlight input level – 223

Green Channel – shadow input level -39 and highlight input level – 223

STEP 3

Create a new blank layer and fill it with white, setting the blend mode of the layer to multiply. Then go to Filter>Distort>Lens Correction and apply the following setting: Lens Correction : -100. Leave all the other settings at the default.

STEP 4

Press crtl-shift-alt-E to create a merged copy of what you are working on. Go to Filters>Blur> Gaussian Blur.

The setting that I used:

Radius – 10px.

Optional

If you’re  so inclined you can also add a light leak to your image by using a gradient adjustment layer.

STEP 1

Apply a gradient adjustment layer to the top of all of your layers.

The colour I have used here is: #ff6e02

To create your own gradient open up the  gradient editor and place three different stops along the bottom like the screenshot:

  1. location 0%
  2. location  8%
  3. location 100%

Then make sure that you have 4 opacity stops at the top.

  1. location 0% with opacity 0%
  2. location 8% with opacity 100%
  3. location 20% with opacity 0%
  4. location 100% with opacity 100%

You can also change the colour of the light leak or the intensity by moving the stops around.

STEP 2

Change the blend mode of the adjustment layer to pin light and the opacity to 90% and you’re done!

You can also download the lomo action set, which contains 8 different lomo effects and 3 light leak effects.

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And preview the 8 different effects in this post: Lomo Action Set

Here’s a couple of examples of the actions in action :)

Stock Image:  ~hatestock

Stock Image : ~Alraunie-stock

The Lomo Effect Action is also available for download at the AllyKatDesign Shop.

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