Photoshop: Creating a Stylised Lomo Effect In 5 Steps

[AHCloudy]

Omg, you're awesome. But, I can't catch up with your speed! HAHA! :D

[Nanitaff]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!

[KimZierPhotography]

Fantastic tutorial thanks

[emoxmasochist]

Thank you, it's awesome and very clear.

[441greenleaf]

God bless you for this tutorial..<3

[Hiheyhelloyo]

Dude you're awesome

[jamieboyrockon]

Props to a great tutorial. But, you know, there is a much simpler and much cheaper way of doing this.

It's called buying a Lomography Camera. Go out and get yourself a nice Holga, Diana, or a Lomo LC-A+. It's as simple as that.

Plus, photos taken with those cameras have a sort of effect that cannot be captured with a DSLR.

[dimage1985]

@jamieboyrockon I agree that you can get some great looking photos using the Holgas and similar (which is why I made this tutorial to imitate the effect), but it's hardly easier and certainly not cheaper.

A Holga is like $50, plus another $10-20 for 1 film and processing and to get one good shot you're likely going to need to take a few rolls of film.

With this method, you can use your current camera and pretty much any graphics program (Paint.net, Gimp are two free ones).

[HaylieGrace]

Great tutorial!

I was wondering if you could explain to me how to import the old paper texture to me in more detail.. I own photoshop cs5 and I can't figure out how to get it opened up like you did! I would really appreciate it.. thankyou so much! =)

[dimage1985]

@HaylieGrace I just had the paper texture opened in photoshop in a tiled window (rather than full screen), so I had moved it off to the side.

That was really just for the video, so I could easily move over and drag-drop it on to the main canvas.

You should be able to go to something like Window > Arrange > Tile and that will let you drag and drop images on to your canvas with the Move Tool. Hope that helps.

[HaylieGrace]

@dimage1985 thankyou, and thankyou for answering so quickly! yes it did help!

i just have one other question.. I figured out how to open the paper texture in a tiled window and I had quite a high quality photo.. but when I went to drag it onto the photo I'm editting, it came up really small, no where near fitting the actual photo size. How do I get this to work?

Thanks once again!

[dimage1985]

@HaylieGrace You will either need to find a higher resolution paper texture (not too hard to find) or shrink down your original photo. You could also use the Transform tool to resize the paper texture (CTRL + T), but if it's too small, it will look blurry and not very nice.

I'd recommend finding some good, high resolution paper textures on Deviantart, Flickr or somewhere like that.

[vlastoo7]

good job.



[hansenb1]

what is the music? title and artist, thanks

[dimage1985]

@hansenb1 The music is by Lomov. The title is 'Obvist'. There's a link in the description where you can download it (it's free on Lastfm).

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

Great tuitorial, with surprizingly cool music to accompany it. :)

[Spinb96]

i love this video!

[Johnninito]

cool lesson

also audiotrack nice,how it's named?

[BellENDwanKer]

Helped alot, thanks so much. :)

[manus21]

very good Tutorial and different from the other Lomo-Tutorials that only focus on the vignette and changing the contrast of the Red/Green Channel :)

I'd LOVE to have a real Lomo-Cam, but they are quite hard to get...and if you have one, it's getting harder and harder to get the right film. I guess developing a film yourself is a total different experience than playing around with photoshop...but I really enjoy doing it anyway :)

[fishrule1942]

I used to develop my own black and white film, I switched to digital in 2004. Exactly what part of the creative process am I missing out on again? Film was very predictable if you were a decent photographer with good darkroom skills, unless the camera you used was a total light leaking POS with an out of sync shutter.

Stop hating on digital because its different, if you have to rely on faulty film technique to simulate effects haphazardly thats just your own shortcoming as a photographer.

[maoy009]

filter and distort then lens correction..

much easier way of adding vignette..,,

[dimage1985]

@maoy009 while that is true, it doesn't let you put the vignette on to a new layer. it has to be applied straight on to the photo, so you can't apply any blend modes or anything to it. It also means you can't edit the effect later on - say 10 minutes later when you realise you want a larger vignette but with less opacity.

[lethalxxlori]

thanks so much!

[hattsoffboysfarm]

Hello :)

I've just imported my old paper texture, and desaturated it.

When I go to switch it to hardlight, the option isnt available.

I can only choose linear dodge, but all the ones in the same secion as hardlight are unavailable.

What do i do?

[dimage1985]

@hattsoffboysfarm that is strange. what colour mode are you in? Make sure it's RGB colour by going to: Image > Mode > RGB Color.

[Assiacracra]

waw

[P0rndoll]

very helpfull ;D

fanksssssss

[zombiepm]

hello sir where can i download the old paper you used thank you so much!!!

[DANMVIDEOS]

how do you make the light leaks?

cos you used motion blur?

but im using cs3 and when you do motion blur it gives you a setting box. and i was wondering what settings you used?

thanksx

[dimage1985]

You just adjust the rotation angle (usually to 0 or 90 degrees) and set the length to 999 (the maximum). Or just experiment and see what looks best :)

[jiniton]

just buy a lomo camera and discover the thrill of taking pictures and the suprise that awaits when you get it developed

[giladigital]

@jiniton

totally dude.

Digital-lover-people cant ever get this feeling. The waitig part and not knowing how they are gonna reslut ... Doing that in photoshop is a crime!

[dimage1985]

@giladigital I agree - I have done both and there's really nothing like that feeling when you first see the images, or watching the photo develop before you in the dark room. But as film gets harder to come by and more expensive, it's nice to have an alternative to still get that old style look. It's also nice to have some control over the outcome, whether you're applying the effect as part of a work project or applying this technique to other, non-photographic images.

[potmechut]

Could you describe how to import the layer with old paper? I dont know how to open second window with the picture and how to import it to the original picture. Thanks

[dimage1985]

If you're using CS4, they've made it a bit harder. You'll need to go to Windows > Arrange > Float all windows (or one of the other "arrange" styles).

Otherwise, you can just cut the whole paper texture and paste it on to a new layer on top of the photo.

[dimage1985]

Oh and when the windows are next to each other, you can use the normal "Move Tool" to drag the layer from one document across to the next one, then it will automatically create a new layer (unless the document is 8 bit, then you'll need to go to Image > Mode > RGB Color)

[potmechut]

How to import a picture with old paper? Thanks

[smbunation]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

[gezreel4]

cool!! now i know!! tnks

[TheCHIKIEE]

hi! my old paper texture and my picture arent the same size. is their a way that i can resize it?? thnq amazing tut.

[dimage1985]

If your paper texture is too big - use CTRL + T (or Edit > Free Transform) then scale the paper size down.

If you paper isn't big enough, then find a larger texture. A smaller one that has been resized to be bigger will look blurry and not very nice. There are lots of free giant paper texture resources around.

[deby815]

cool, that was great :D

[Laur3ntLapo]

cool tutorial

yes it's not unpredictable like real lomo but it's just for fun, just to try wath your picture would look like

[tan88uk]

Thanks, this would save me some money from developing the 120 film from the pro labs!

[SessyMelia]

I definitely think this is more than FIVE steps!

[dimage1985]

Hah, i guess it depends on what you count as a "step". I've listed the steps in the description. Like "Create a Vingette" is one step, but that includes making a gradient, setting it to soft light and so on, so that might count as a few steps if you're fairly new to Photoshop.

[D3L1R10US]

GREAT tutorial!

[xinjuechen11]

i love photoshop very much~

[CultureShock54]

word.

nice tutorial, but is there an irony in using photoshop to get a lomo effect?

[CusackPresents]

great tutorial. Fantastic effect, I'm looking forward to re-creating and expanding on it. The only downside is the choice of music you played in the background... but that's an each to their own decision.

Thanks :)

[ShutterBug717]

Eh...it's not the same. People need to try the Diana/Holga to understand. The point of the Diana/Holga is that they are unpredicable. With photoshop it's given what your trying to create.

[TheOn3LeftBehind]

This is SUCH an awesome tutorial! I use this technique to do all my digital darkroom photos. I linked your video on my deviantart page. : ) You rocketh. XD

[DacheeKun]

wow + O + <33

lomography is love c:

[tenrobso]

Thanks very much for the tute. The result is peachy actually and I'm stoked.

[alllownogo]

bravo! thanks a bunch

[rbngrafico]

Great great tutorial and nice soundtrack... what's the name of the song/artist?

[dimage1985]

The music is by Lomov. The title is 'Obvist'. There's a link in the description where you can download it (it's free on Lastfm).

[rbngrafico]

thnx :)

[hahn666666]

wordless..hey if i send u mia pix wil u edit it for me plz?thakies

[whatsoever69]

thank you very much for putting your time and effort into this tutorial. I already bought a holga lomographic camera , but it's very useful to know how to apply these effects on your pictures taken with your digital cam...

[photo4meow]

very interesting vid!

But I am so lost when you do the light streaks and use motion blur. How come when you click on that it blurs the color horizontaly? When I try it it just makes the color blury.

[dimage1985]

You might need to change the angle of the blur. In Filters > Blur > Motion Blur, the angle should be 90 degrees or 0 degrees, depending on if you want horizontal or vertical blur.

You might also need more random blobs of orange, so that the distance the pixels get blurred is more varied.

That's all i can think of without seeing the photoshop file

[FrozenKrystal]

In the end (6:17) you make all the layers invisible except the background. What key were you holding to do that? It's very cool, and would save me a lot of time ;)

[dimage1985]

ALT+click the layer eye icon to show only that layer ;)

[pelon956tx]

how do u add the paper background? i tried to just copy it on top but it has a big X on it

[dimage1985]

In the video, i just drag and drop it onto the photo. If it's not working properly, you could try selecting all (CTRL+A) and copying (CTRL+C) the paper texture.

Then make a new layer on the lomo photo image. Then paste (CTRL+V) the paper on top.

If it still doesn't work, the only other thing that would stop it from pasting in would be if the original photo is a GIF or similar, with only 256 colours. Then you'll need to go to Image > Mode > RGB Color (make sure it's 8 bit as well)

[yeahyeah911]

seriously the best and most useful photoshop tutorial i've seen here

do you have a deviantart ??

anyways thanks a lot

[dimage1985]

Glad you like the tutorial. And in fact i do have a deviantart account - lukeroberts. deviantart. com

[AndrewFuckingRichie]

AMAZING

[Lucifer9387]

Thank you, this was very very helpful! :)

[Daniel513555]

um..... 5 steps?

[dimage1985]

yes - see the description

[GhettoRaineR]

Hi everybody..PLZ HELP... i am lookin for a program that u can cut faces or sth from a photo and make it animated in a another existing video...plz if anybody knows,tell me... and sorry 4 my english/..intresting video

[pcampbell0]

adobe after effects.

[fooddudeone]

Someone asked earlier..

..but how did you make your brush spit out funky airbrush/lines/etc when doing that light blur effect.

I undestand how to do the effect...im just curious on the actual brush, as when you were 'brushing', it didnt look like an ordinary brush (very inconsistent/all over the place; but cool)

[dimage1985]

Oh yes, that's a good point. I was using a graphics tablet, so you can vary the pressure of the brush and make it fatter or thinner depending on how hard you press. It shouldn't matter though. Just use a big, soft brush and it will be fine - you're blurring it all so much anyway

[ekd7755]

thanks for the great tutorial.

[phototrip]

Amazing! Thanks!

[dannysuru]

Dude that was pretty SICK!!

nice bgm too

thanks man

[tribalecho]

That's pretty amazing, what you did. Not the picture. But bothering to post this great video. I live on the internet, poli/market junkie-wise, but I hate directions and the techy part of my computer. Still, I have a desire to learn more about what I can do, especially visually, on my magic box. Your video gives me hope and makes me curious. Still, should someone like me invest in Photoshop?

[dimage1985]

Well, you could try downloading the trial from Adobe and seeing what you think. Or get GIMP which is similar to photoshop, but completely free.

[iampaul123]

thats hella tight, but I think its more trouble then its worth. If youve got that time on your hands, then kudos to you, but I think its cheaper to buy a lomography cam...

[empirenightmare]

it is not cheaper if your working for a client who gives you these photos with a low budget. Not to mention this took 6 minutes, it isn't that much trouble.

[klimg]

where did you get the old paper texture?

[dimage1985]

you can find some on deviantART or just google images for old paper texture and search for Extra Large images. Hope that helps!

[klimg]

thanks!

[ekamil88]

I promote this tutorial to my friends. <333

[Othecryman]

thaks

[Othecryman]

how do you record like that? i use camstudio

[dimage1985]

i used Camstudio as well - just set it to follow the mouse.

In later videos i set it to record fullscreen then in Vegas i zoom in to the details

[icedog0]

sweet this reminds me of like a james bond picture on golden eye

[fivepointsix]

this is the enemy of art. i don't use a lomo but i use similar cameras. why would you want to do this? it's completely pointless. nobody will ever take these images seriously. just buy yourself the camera and a roll of film and shoot some pictures. it's fun you know....

[dafatguyus]

hey everybody can do photoshop , not everyone can do cool lomoshots .. so i mean whats your point faker ? u proud now ? hehehe..

[thecaveman]

but this is too much work! haha. and lomo isn't all about this effect :)

[RIPEMOTIONALHARDCORE]

O_o

"photoshop: Creating An Authentic Lomo Effect..."

this makes me want to cry...

[dimage1985]

yeah i guess you're right. I've changed it to "Creating a Stylised Lomo effect" :P

[designedinfatuation]

i got lost at the light leaks, how do u do that with that brush ?

[dimage1985]

Get a big soft orange brush (maybe the 300px one) and draw some lines randomly on a new layer. Then go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and set to something large and at the angle you want. Finally, set that layer to Vivid or Linear light blend mode.

[kworld01]

you are truly a windows user

[dimage1985]

what do you mean by that? (i'm writing from Xubuntu at the moment)

[iam980]

Great!

[ekamil88]

I like this tutorial.

[harvity]

vale la pena tanto trabajo? o solo es espontanedad?

[sazz21]

Lomo pictures are usually shot from close range, have vibrant colors, a little bit of light leaks and uneven vignetting effects. The pictures are sometimes blur. But this is a good tutorial. cheers.

[dotsfrazer]

would you not just go buy a lomo all that messen around would stress you out

[BeatsBacharach]

The trick to cam studio is to take two "shots" for each thingy. One close up and one "full screen". Then edit between the two in a video editor were you start zoomed out, then cut to the close up version for more detail. I hope that helped the mouse tracking prob.

[dimage1985]

Thanks for the tip. I use a new way now. I just take the whole thing full-screen and use Vegas to zoom in and pan. Much easier to do it in post-production now and i can zoom in and out with ease :D

[Ballardian]

Since when do Lomo shots have wallpaper texture?

I'm sorry: the video is well presented, but what you've done does not look like an "authentic" Lomo effect at all.

[girlnfight]

Thank you so much! it actually helped me a lot.

[Bortacus]

I wish more photoshop tutorials were as easy to follow as this one.

[Airnutz1]

Great Job

[Bloominglotus666]

this looks very helpfull and neet.

I go try it soon

thank you very much!

[ozonze]

Do you call this a Lomo effect?

I think you need to see more lomo shots...

But thats a nice transformation anyway...

[Theatreoftragedy85]

wow, in fact you made a piece of art, and you are helpin alot here, by giving them the first step. i love it . and great music too ;)

[jessebajenaru]

Awesome video lukeroberts, thanks for sharing your secrets.

[Nitoofnorway]

Cudos man. This was a great video. Probably one of the best videos I have seen on youtube. Only thing is that the mousetracking was annoying after awhile. How's that CS3 working out faor ya?

[dimage1985]

Yeah, the program i used seems to have really dodgey mouse tracking/scrolling. You can make it smoother, but then it scrolls really slow. And i didn't want to record the whole screen, because then you wouldn't really be able to see what's happening.

CS3 is good. It's not too different, but the things they have changed i find hard to live without when i use older versions. The new Camera RAW importer is fantastic and the interface is laid out better. The extract tool works a lot better now too.

[52stars]

Do you have a link to that image so we can see it?

[thewaz]

thanks, i learned alot from this, im going to try it...

[MattTheLoneWolf]

This is fantastic, I always wondered how you got such good effects on your photos. How easy do you think it would be to do this in a darkroom, as opposed to Photoshop?

[dimage1985]

Hmm, i'm not sure how well it would translate the the darkroom. You wouldn't need a few of the steps, but you could do the vignette and probably the lightleaks. They would be a bit unpredictable, though, i would think.

For the old paper texture you probably wouldn't find any old photographic paper that would still be useable. Maybe in photoshop, make a texture, print and photocopy it onto a transparency, then lay that on top of the paper when you expose the print. That might work.

[MattTheLoneWolf]

*nods* I think I know what I'm going to try next ;)