How do achieve 1970s retro yellowish pics?

[Ricardo O]

i have always seen pics like these in adv / magazines...

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/rinspeed-bamboo/#3891296

jus wondering : how to achieve the "background" colour - ie i wana be able to create those 1970s Retro look type of pictures...

any steps? use photoshop / elements ? or camera settings?

any youtube videos?

is there at theme to call these "1970s retro look" yelllowish type of photographys

 

[Mark S Abeln]

The color comes from one of the dyes fading in the print.

In Photoshop, you can convert your image to CMYK, and then adjust the curves to reduce the intensity of the cyan and magenta channels. Since the yellow color channel remains, your image will look more yellow.

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[Ricardo O]

hi
thanks for your reply...

In Photoshop, you can convert your image to CMYK, and then adjust the curves to reduce the intensity of the cyan and magenta channels. Since the yellow color channel remains, your image will look more yellow.

i am using Photoshop Elements 9, what function is that? ie (CMYK), ?
how about can i do it?

is that any youtube videos to show me?

 

[Tom_N]

i am using Photoshop Elements 9, what function is that? ie (CMYK), ?
how about can i do it?

Unless something has changed since my (much earlier) copy of Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Elements doesn't have that feature.

CMYK represents colors as combinations of Cyan, Magneta, Yellow, and Black. CMYK encoding is very common in high-end commercial printing equipment. Adobe keeps (kept?) CMYK support as one of the features that distinguish the full Photoshop from Elements, the better to ensure that commercial users will buy the former.

A lot of home inkjet printers are also CMYK devices. I believe what happens when you edit with Photoshop Elements and print to such a device is that the photo stays in the RGB space while you are editing it. When you go to print, the printer driver converts the transient data being sent to the printer into CMYK form.

 

[jaydensdaddy]

Do a search on Google for cross processing and lomography. There are different ways of producing the effect. One way is to use levels to adjust the RGB channels separately. Typically, using an s curve, especially in the red and blue channels. You can season to taste. The images you linked look to have mild cross processing.

By way of example, I took one of their images and applied a couple of curves for a more exaggerated effect:

Before:



After:



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[Ricardo O]

Hi jaydensdaddy

thanks for your 2 pics...that is what i am trying to ask....thanks!

can i add, since the CMYK function is missing from Elements 9, can i still perform the cross processing and lomography ?

does Element 9 allows me to do that?

if Elements 9 dont have that function - who other programs can i use?

cheers!

 

[jaydensdaddy]

Hi jaydensdaddy

thanks for your 2 pics...that is what i am trying to ask....thanks!

can i add, since the CMYK function is missing from Elements 9, can i still perform the cross processing and lomography ?

does Element 9 allows me to do that?

if Elements 9 dont have that function - who other programs can i use?

cheers!

I use Paint Shop Pro v7. It is over ten years old. I don't have Photoshop or Elements, so I can't speak to that.

But you don't need to convert to CMYK in order to produce the desired results. I don't have that option either. Just play around with the different RGB channels using curves. Again, for a how-to, do a search on Google for Cross Processing and Lomography.

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[Ricardo O]

i went to do a search and found this website ...

http://enlighten.jeshderox.com/

click colourshift action- it seems to be able to create the type of pics that i am after ...but it cost US 145 !. ..which is even more expensive than the photoshop elelements 9 - US $99

are there any other programs which will allow me to create the same effects ?

thanks!

 

[Mako2011]

this might help and it looks like it is free though not as robust as say PS

http://photography-rod.blogspot.com/2009/11/photoshop-elements-curves-plugin.html

 

[palincss]

i have always seen pics like these in adv / magazines...

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/rinspeed-bamboo/#3891296

jus wondering : how to achieve the "background" colour - ie i wana be able to create those 1970s Retro look type of pictures...

tobacco graduated filter? By the way, pictures did not look that way in the 1970s.

 

[jaydensdaddy]

i went to do a search and found this website ...

http://enlighten.jeshderox.com/

click colourshift action- it seems to be able to create the type of pics that i am after ...but it cost US 145 !. ..which is even more expensive than the photoshop elelements 9 - US $99

are there any other programs which will allow me to create the same effects ?

thanks!

It sounds like you are looking for a program or action to create this effect for you. Why don't you just do as I suggested, look at the many tutorials available on the Internet for free, and then do it yourself.

There are many advanced photo editing techniques. But this isn't one of them. It's really just a green/yellow color shift. Invest a little time in learning it, you won't regret it, and it won't cost you a dime.