This is a great blog post on how to recreate popular photo effects, used commonly by professional photographers. All the tutorials require Photoshop, in order to recreate the photo effects. The post showcases all the most popular effects from HDR, lomo, light leaks, vintage. You name it the effect has been included in the round-up. This is certainly worth bookmarking, for future reference when you want enhance your photos.
1. Retro Photo Effect
Retro photo effects are all the rage! There’s plenty of apps to give your photos the vintage look in your iPhone, but what about your desktop images? Follow this super quick Photoshop tutorial to easily add a retro effect to your images in 3 simple steps, or just skip to the end and download the Action.
2. Lomo Effect
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past 10 years then you’re probably familiar with the look of Lomography or “Lomo” style photos. These photos typically feature unique coloring, high contrast, soft focus and dark vignettes. The movement was started in the early nineties when the founders were inspired by the images produced from cheap Russian toy cameras like the Lomo LC-A.
3. Vintage Photo Effect
This is a short but insightful tutorial. The post is a great video tutorial on how to create a vintage photo effect using Photoshop.
4. Movie Style Photo Effect
Everyone loves photo effects, especially those that are super easy to create and really transform your photos. Today we’re going to take a look at retouching a photo to create a cool cinematic movie effect with high contrast and blueish tones.
5. Instagram Photo Effect
We all know how much fun Instagram can be. Adding some really stunning effects to your smartphone images in the click of a button is great. But adding them in Photoshop can also be fast and simple, if you know the right moves. Lets take a quick look at how to accomplish an easy “Instagram Look” in just a few steps.
6. HDR Photo Effect
We all know how much fun Instagram can be. Adding some really stunning effects to your smartphone images in the click of a button is great. But adding them in Photoshop can also be fast and simple, if you know the right moves. Lets take a quick look at how to accomplish an easy “Instagram Look” in just a few steps.
7. Light Leaks Photo Effect
In this quick tip tutorial, we will explain how to create light leaks and lomo effects for you photos using actions in Photoshop.
8. Color Photo Effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to apply a color effect to a photo.
9. Desaturated Film Style Photo Effect
A great tutorial on how to create a great desaturated film style photo effect.
10. Comic Book Photo Effect
In this tutorial you will explore the process behind creating a comic book cover photo effect for a book titledTour.
11. Dark Processed Lomo Photo Effect
Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns. The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation.
12. Halftone Photo Effect
The halftone effect is a popular effect you usually see in retro poster designs. This trend seems to have died out, nevertheless i thought it would be a great idea to show you how to recreate this type of photo effect. The tutorial is short, but insightful and takes no time to achieve the end out come.
13. Engraved Illustration Photo Effect
A great tutorial to create a very unique photo effect.
14. Hipstamatic Photo Effect
If you are on Facebook or Twitter, chances are you’ve seen your friends post vintage, retro, worn, or decayed looking photos to their profile using apps like Instagram or Hipstamatic. Mobile apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic make it easy to produce these types of effects on your mobile device but unfortunately, it can be quite difficult and time-consuming to produce a similar effect using Photoshop alone. In this tutorial, author Mark Heaps will introduce you to Retrographer, a fantastic plugin for Photoshop that will allow you to apply similar effects to your photos in minutes with powerful fine-tuning control not possible in fixed preset applications.
15. Cinematic Photo Effect
There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait, for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!
16. Tilt / Shift Photo Effect
The blur effect helps to trick your eye into thinking your looking at something close up versus far away. So you naturally think the items in the photo are very small.
17. Retro Analog Photo Effect
Back in the days of analog photography imperfections were part of the job. Colour washes, light leaks, vignettes and blurs were all common problems that appeared during the processing of your film, particularly from cheap cameras such as the Holga, or simply down to human error. While these problems don’t affect digital cameras, we can recreate the cool effects in Photoshop to give our shots that cool lo-fi retro effect.
18. Antique Photo Effect
Nothing tells a story like an old photo. You can find sometimes find them by the box fulls at antique shops and thrift stores. Not only are they fun to look at, there also fun and easy to create in Photoshop with a couple of adjustment layers and a good grunge texture.
19. Polaroid Photo Effect
Follow this step by step guide to giving your photos a cool vintage Polaroid style effect in Photoshop. We’ll adjust the colours of the image with adjustment layers then use Photoshop brushes to distress the photograph for an aged appearance.
20. Money Style Photo Effect
A nice technique to create a simple money style illustration using a regular photo, it’s not as perfect as the money illustrations we see in the dollar bill for example, but it’s a quick tip. There might be different ways so if you know another one share with us, this was the one I came up with and it’s very easy
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