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

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Lomo Photography or Lomography has gained quite the cult following in recent years. And it's no wonder. These little Lo-Fi cameras, such as the Lomo LC-A, produce some really cool and compelling images. Aside from the Lo-Fi look of the Lomo, the other main feature of Lomography is the cross processing of the Color Slide Film.

A while back, I was trying to recreate this look on my digital photographs. However, the few tutorials I found online, while they were a start, didn't really get me to the final Lomo look that I was trying to achieve. So, I made my own process, and now I have turned it into a full in depth tutorial for all of our SLR Lounge peeps.

We have broken this tutorial into two distinct parts. In Part I, we are going to take a look at Lomo Photography and dissect the images effects so that we know exactly how to reproduce them in Photoshop. In Part II, we are going to start Photoshopping our image from start to finish. So, if you want to get straight to the Photoshop part of this tutorial, skip to the second video.

In Part I, we identified the steps we need to turn our digital images into great looking Lomo style images. Specifically, those steps are:

Distinct Features of a Lomo Photograph
1) Cross Processed Colors
2) Increased Saturation
3) Blown Highlights/Clipped Shadows
4) Heavy Vignetting
5) Film Grain
6) Sharp Center/Blurred Edges

So, let's get on to the good stuff and actually create our Lomo image in the Photoshop video tutorial below.

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[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!

[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!

[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!

[emmibemmi100]

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

[The5jerry]

@dikirbaratkelate okk



[tomasdeshi]

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

[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!