Lomography
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
Lomography Photoshop Tutorial
Lomography Photoshop Tutorial
Follow this retro Photoshop tutorial to add a retro lomographic look to your photos.

  1. Begin by opening any photo into Photoshop.
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  2. Click on the New Adjustment Layer button in the Layers pallet and select Levels.
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  3. The Levels tool should appear. In the Levels tool, select Red from the drop down menu at the top and then move the left and right sliders towards the center a little bit. Watch the image in the background to make sure that you get the effect that you like.
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  4. Now select the bottom Photoshop layer.
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  1. Go to Filter> Distort> Lens Correction and in there, adjust the vignetting to add a vignette that you like. Usually with lomo photos, they have a very strong vignette.
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  2. Now select the Levels layer and then go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Brightness/Contrast. It should appear as the top layer.
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  3. In the Brightness/Contrast, checkmark use legacy if you're using Photoshop CS3. If you are not using Photoshop CS3, then you don't have to checkmark anything. Now reduce the contrast to -25. This simulates the low contrast of lomo cameras.
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  4. Here's the final results of this lomography Photoshop tutorial.
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