Film look

SanduG

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Hey guys, So I've been looking into a lot of tutorials and forums etc online about this but haven't actually found a proper tut or any good answers. I mean there are many tutorials but they don't cover exactly what I'm looking for. I'm pretty new to photos so i don't know much advanced stuff on using photoshop and lightroom and etc. Would anyone happen to know how to turn a digial photo to look like film? and get that 35mm saturated look to it with the lightleaks and people with the pink skin. here are some examples of what i am talking about. thanks :)



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On1 Photo Suite has all sorts of 'filters' for recreating different film types. The free On1 Effects may or may not include some of those film filters.

Furthermore, On1 can be used as a host program for the free Google Nik Collection , which also includes a module for emulating film types.

On1 is currently $110 (marked down from $120), but it's often in sale for less than that.
 
Thanks Glen. I never thought of trying drag and drop to launch the tools!
I tried it that way first, and thought it sucked. Not only does it not work with every module, but the basic (very basic) "Save As" is absent. So that means whatever image file you open is the one that will be edited.

Want to edit, save, edit some more, and save again to a different location or as a different name? Fat chance.

Want to close the photo you're working on and open a different photo? Not without closing the application and starting the drag-and-drop from scratch.
 
Why do you want to simulate a film look using digital? It will always be inferior. It seems like a lot of work with software. Just shoot film. I do when I want a certain look or print size. I also reverse process for an unusual look that I am after. Most labs will reverse process for you if you do not do too many rolls, because it effects their chemistry.
 
DXO Filmpack emulates 80 "legendary analog films". In their list I see things like Velvia, Ektachrome, Kodachrome, Polaroid, etc. Plenty of B&W films too (Tri-X, Pan X Plus, etc). There additional custom "looks" of DXO's own design.

Standalone or Plug-in for Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, Optics Pro. 30-day trial available.

I tried it, it works, but I wasn't $50 interested.

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It's possible (at least part of what) you are looking for is a cross-processing look. Film, basically, was designed to be processed using a specific chemistry. Weird colors could be achieved by using the "wrong" development process. Try searching for "cross processing".

Also, color film is balanced to be exposed under either daylight or tungsten light, and weird colors can result from using one type of film in the other type of light. You said you're new to photography so I'm making generalizations and simplifications, and not going into practice or terminology like "color temperature".

Using Photoshop or Lightroom or Gimp, you could achieve these looks by altering the colors and contrast of your image.

Lightroom has a suite of one-click "presets" that include film looks. They don't emulate one type of film, like "Velvia", but a look like "Bleach Bypass".

The Nik Collection is now free from Google, and includes some film effects.

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

I believe the Nik Suite is not a stand-alone program, and you will need an application to launch it. Like, Lightroom. VSCO is another suite of filters that emulates film types.

https://vsco.co/store/film

I am not aware of any way to emulate light leaks except through your own artistry. You would have to use Photoshop or Gimp or some similar program, and do it yourself. You could probably do a simple one inside Lightroom with a graduated filter.
RE: the Nik tools

In Windows at least, most of the Nik tools can be used as a stand alone editor, but oddly, don't have the ability to select and and load an image. So if you create a shortcut on your desktop for the NIK tool in question, and then "Drag and Drop" an image (no raw) onto that shortcut icon, the tool in question will load that photo and run as a standalone editor. Some of the NIK tools will save the altered image in strange locations (not always in the same folder as the originating photo). In Windows at least, the images frequently get saved to the "Documents" folder. I haven't tried all of the NIK tools as a stand alone editor but the ones I have tried seem to save the changed images according to odd default locations. you might need to search for some completed photos until you learn their default saves.
 
I'd like to add him to mine, as well - but I can't seem to work out how to do it. Any chance of a quick reminder, please?
 
I don't understand why so many people took the original post seriously.

I suppose it is just possible that that somebody might want to try to reproduce the terrible quality of the first two images, but a light leak?????? A beginner wouldn't have the slightest what a light leak was.

Personally I enjoyed the joke (but I got taken in by the OP's other post a few months ago). However, I cannot condone the OP's insulting language in one of his replies and he is probably going to get banned.
 
I'm still not so sure the OP was a "joke" as such. But I've found SanduG's responses pretty unpleasant, and I've filed a complaint against him for the crack he made about me "only contributing to get more posts on record" and also on Glen B's behalf when OP's words of wisdom were "Useless post"
 
I'd like to add him to mine, as well - but I can't seem to work out how to do it. Any chance of a quick reminder, please?
Go to the bottom of any of their posts. There is a line which says:-

"Reply to Thread" "Reply with quote", "More options" and "Complain"

Click on "More options" then click on "Ignore user" from the menu that pops up.



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Ian
 
I'm still not so sure the OP was a "joke" as such. But I've found SanduG's responses pretty unpleasant, and I've filed a complaint against him for the crack he made about me "only contributing to get more posts on record" and also on Glen B's behalf when OP's words of wisdom were "Useless post"
I have filed a complaint about his reply to Fog City. I don't want to repeat what he said in case I get banned as well.

Change - I think that his reply has just been deleted.

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Chris R
 
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Thanks Glen. I never thought of trying drag and drop to launch the tools!
I tried it that way first, and thought it sucked. Not only does it not work with every module, but the basic (very basic) "Save As" is absent. So that means whatever image file you open is the one that will be edited.

Want to edit, save, edit some more, and save again to a different location or as a different name? Fat chance.

Want to close the photo you're working on and open a different photo? Not without closing the application and starting the drag-and-drop from scratch.

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Hmm...

The latest version of Colour Efex Pro 4 (probably the most useful of the Nik tools for the OP) does seem to have a "Save Image as" option as well as an "Open images" option (only seems to work on .jpg files). It might be worth your while downloading the latest version.

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Just remember theses are Photoshop plugins with just the minimal wrapper to turn them into standalone .exe's

Ian
 
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Thanks Ian. Mission accomplished.
 

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