The Ultimate Lomo Effect Photoshop Tutorial - Creating Lomography from Digital Photography

[tomasdeshi]

omg.. That was BAD! Buy A lomo camera and some expired film, don't try to make it digitaly!!

[emmibemmi100]

did he say it looks pretty dope at one point? If so thats pretty dope lol

[fxckinglollipops]

Amazing editing. Thanks for sharing!

[NiggaHProduction]

i took a lowrider with hydraulic for the pic

it looks great :D

[sarahslapdash]

very good tutorial! simple and effective, thank you :)

[browniesandtequila]

Excellent video. Well explained and easy to follow. Thanks.

[MJCastellanos]

Brilliant!



[dikirbaratkelate]

thanks..i love u..no homo

[The5jerry]

@dikirbaratkelate okk



[pichlerbr]

instead using blur>lens blur, i've used Blur>RADIAL BLUR at 9-10px!! I got a relly really more acurate lomo effect ...

[apredol]

thank you. nice tutorial

[sarayLG]

best video i could find about lomography indeed ! i simply LOVE IT !

i love how you didn't miss anything ! great tips a big "THANK YOU" for the help !

[turbogiga]

why do you broke that good photo by photoshop?

[Reviewz11]

Hey everyone I need subs!!! im trying to get products to review on my channel.

when i get new subs i can get the products and review them PLEASE HELP.

I WILL HAVE GIVE AWAYS! :) thank you will also sub back

[MissKG1111]

Awesome and so helpful! Thank you for sharing! And you have a sexy voice too!:)

[skiggleboots]

hey SLRlounge, I love photoshop, I work on it almost everyday and I used to edit for a professional photography company for a while, so I know my stuff and I know that your video is great. Easy to understand, professional and smooth transitions into each step. Keep up the good work and thanks for the tips!

[1995Benzo]

This is so good!!! I just tried it and absolutely love the effect. Thanks!!!

[roblarosa]

I just have to say that this is the type of tutorial that I find the most valuable. You don't just say "do this" and "do that", you explain why you're doing something and explain the goal. That's the best way, so when you learn a method you can apply it to all photos not just the sample photos.

[thedarknessprevails]

this was really excellent to watch, very informative voiceover..I learned loads! Cheers man

[PhotoshopWonder]

i subbed as SOON as i heard "that looks pretty dope" by the way I love your camera, Canon Mark II

[payamjirsa]

@PhotoshopWonder lol, I am a Persian who grew up in Utah, spent summers in Cali, now lives in Orange County and speaks Cantonese and Mandarin in the home.... I guess I talk a little funny ;)

[PhotoshopWonder]

@payamjirsa haha i would have never even thought! and you should check my videos out, thanks for the response man.

[DrNJPhotography]

Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Thanks for doing this.

[roblarosa]

Killer - the best lomo-style tutorial I've seen so far.

[igniz92]

why does the feathers level only allow me select up to 50%.. mine is CS3

[07Patty]

great tutorial - explained very well and presented incredibly. thank you!

[JanErikEdvartsen]

Your video's are THE best on Lightroom and Photoshop. Hands down! :) BTW - can this process be done in Lightroom? I can't afford Photoshop :)

[CoolDudesJunk]

Great help

[SLRlounge]

I saw a comment on here regarding reducing the oval shape of the vignette. To control the smoothness and the oval shape, just play with the feather. The lower the feather, the less smoothed out your selection shape will be. But, keep in mind if your feather isn't strong enough, then you are going to see a clear edge where the vignette starts.

Enjoy!

[LesiureBoy]

Excellent, simply excellent. This is the BEST video about lomography, by far. Thanks for sharing your skills bro!

[fedezsur]

Quedé enamorado de tu tono de voz♥ Gracias x el tuto!

[The3DChris]

Thanks for the tutorial, some good ideas here that I will have to try out. But, there is one thing that is bugging me and I see it all the time. After creating all those adjustment layers just hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E to create a new merged layer of everything visible. It will keep your adjustment layers intact in case you what to change things. I mean why duplicate your background if your going to merge all the layers anyway?

[SLRlounge]

@The3DChris Chris, one thing that I am trying to do is make these tutorials very easy to follow for those that are novices to Photoshop. While I myself am always merging layers into new active layers, I didn't want those that maybe aren't as comfortable with layers to get confused as we sat there switching between and manipulating multiple layers.

But, yes when I work in Photoshop, merging to a single active layer (ctrl+alt+shift+e) is pretty crucial in my workflow. Hope that makes sense

[The3DChris]

@SLRlounge Seeing the complete workflow is oh so helpful for both beginners and more advance users. As a long time PS user I find myself developing bad habits. When watching other's workflow I can improve my own. I am ashame to say it but I didn't learn about merging visible to a new layer till about 18 months ago. I was doing it my own awkward way. :)

As long as the layers are neat and named, I think a novice should be able to handle it if they can understand curves and adjustment layers.

[SLRlounge]

@The3DChris The more I think about it the more I think you are right Chris. From here on out we will use the merge to visible on out on these multi-layer techniques. You brought up a great point which is that people are going to follow these tutorials exactly and learn bad habits by never actually learning the proper method.

My intent was to keep it simple, but I can see now how those that are new to Photoshop would never learn the appropriate technique. Thanks for pointing that out homie =)

[SLRlounge]

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback, if you like the video, please help us grow our channel by "liking" our videos and sharing them if you can.

Thanks!

[sailorbro06]

This is so cool!!!! Thanx bud!!! You are awesome!!

[Bobesque]

@SLRlounge i know thats what i am saying LOL the before picture was really good, i like it.

[SLRlounge]

@Bobesque Thanks amigo ;) 

[Bobesque]

@SLRlounge i am in no way attacking you and your artistic pov. im just saying after the blur added in the picture, the horse is not the point of interest anymore, therefore the picture losses the one and only point of interest. lol. im sorry if you thought i was attacking you or implying that i know better.

[SLRlounge]

@Bobesque Haha, don't worry I didn't take it that way, I am not easily offended. If I were, I wouldn't be on Youtube =)

Check out the actual before/after on our facebook page

I masked out the blur that was over the horse. The area is darkened a lot, but not blurred.

I am sure there are better images in our portfolio for these tuts, but that would require looking for them, haha. Typically, I just use whatever is on my hard drive and "works" for the tutorial. =)

[SLRlounge]

@Bobesque Crap, now I need to go remove my past comments so it doesn't look like I am talking to myself =)

[SLRlounge]

@Bobesque With this technique, you should be able to recreate flawless recreations of the Lomo LC-A look, I would love to see you try it out with one of your own images and see what you come up with. Post your image here, or on our SLR Lounge Facebook wall. Enjoy!

[SLRlounge]

@Bobesque The file is downloadable from the tutorial linked from the actual article at SLR Lounge.

The great thing about photography is we all see it so differently. Someone could see this photo and say, hey that is a really cool artistic rendition of a couple kissing. Others might really like the focus on the car and think it was meant to be a classic car shot. I look at this image and really enjoy the colors, which is why I thought it would make a good candidate for this tutorial.

[SLRlounge]

Thanks MrJKING, help us out share the love by spreading the word =)

[MrJKING520]

Great Video!!