How To Achieve The 'Old Photography Effect'

waddup okay so on twitter i showed my edited pictures and 4 or 5 people asked me how i made it  look the way it did and wanted me to make a tutorial, Charlotte thought it would be useful too as there are only like 3 proper tutorials in the whole 'internet world', here you go !

this is one of those effects where it looks like it was taken from the 80’s/90’s, not one of those shitty vintage filters you find on instagram are you picking up what im laying down

you will need:
photoshop
pictures to edit
a brain
swag

here are some cool examples:

! you don’t have to follow these exact steps, play around with them !
 this is what i made pre-hand, your edit should look similar to mine:
credit to the owner of this beautiful photography
ignore the pictures i'm using for this tutorial it doesn't really matter


1. Duplicate your picture ( Ctrl + J ) > Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur:

you can put anything between 1.0 to 1.9, it’s up to you.

I set it to screen and fill is 50% 

2. Duplicate your original image again > Filter > Blur > Motion Blur

I set the fill to 30% and kept it Normal, this determines how blurry your photo will be, so the higher the percentage, the ”blurryer” your photo will be.

4. Duplicate your original image once more > Filter > Render > Lighting Effects:

you can make the circle as big as you want, i set this to fill 26% keeping it Normal.

5. Flatten all of your images > window >  adjustments (if the tab isn’t up yet) > brightness/contrast

*make sure you’re always moving the arrows to the left

6. Adjustments > Levels
*always move the middle arrow to the left and the black output levels arrow to the right

7. Adjustments > Exposure
*don’t move the top arrow but move the bottom two to your right until you find your desired effect ( don’t move the middle arrow that far because it gets too bright ) 

8. Adjustments > Curves > Cross Process 

these are my settings for the cross process:

flatten your images!

9. Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Colour

10. The colour code is #a3a3a3

10. Filter > Lens Blur 

11. Here are my settings, there’s no point changing these around as it won’t make much of a difference.
Press OK

12. Duplicate that layer > select the one you just duplicated > filter > blur > gaussian blur:

* put anything between 0.5 and 1.0

Here are my settings:

AND VOILA! you’re done!

you can add a leak to your picture if you want to, just search for ‘light leaks’ on google or tumblr.
if you don't know how to use leaks, it's basically:
drag your leak to over your photo > screen > change the opacity and shit

to make it look darker flatten all of your images then change the BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST.

END RESULTS:

without leak

with leak

IF YOU WANT ME TO MAKE AN ACTION FOR YOU GUYS TO USE AND DOWNLOAD THEN TELL ME :-)




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