Question:
How to make a photo has this type of effect?
2010-08-01 07:31:33 UTC
http://www.chictopia.com/photo/show/2719…

I think it looks like an old photo but at the same time it still seems clear and colourful.
Four answers:
Gary B
2010-08-01 08:02:23 UTC
I'm going to assume you want to know about digital photography methods in general, rather than film-and-darkroom techniques.



When I look at that picture, I notice two things. The colors are very saturated. The model's skin tones are a bit green. I don't know what the original photo looked like, so I can't be sure what changes were made. I'm just making a couple of educated guesses.



One way or another, more green was added. There's a lot of green in the picture overall, so cranking up the saturation would add lots of green. On the other hand, in an RGB image, one of the basic color channels is green.



I would guess that either the green channel was boosted, the overall saturation was boosted, or both.



The reason that this looks "old-timey" to you is that, when film photographs age, some of the colors fade faster than others. That makes the slower-fading colors stand out more. Boosted green makes it look a bit like a film photo with reds fading faster.



If saturation is turned down, colors move toward grey. Turn saturation all the way down, and the result is a black-and-white picture. If saturation is turned up, colors move toward rainbow-like purity. Turn saturation all the way up, and the result is cartoon-like, looking too pure to be real.



If you have photo-manipulation software (like PhotoShop, but there are tons of 'em, some of 'em free to download) you could look for how to change "gamma" on individual color channels ('cause that's how you can boost just the green) and you could look for how to change saturation ('cause that's how you slide the whole pic toward cartoony-ness). Playing with those two things might get you the effect you're looking for.
Allie
2010-08-01 14:49:22 UTC
I'm pretty sure that was at a photo shoot. At such photo shoot, they have the (most likely expensive) equipment to make it look like that. It is probably the lighting.
Chillax
2010-08-01 15:06:10 UTC
You just change the white balance to a temperature lower than it is. It will come out orange-ish.



Seriously just must with the white balance it's not that hard.
Jessica
2010-08-01 14:35:39 UTC
Picnik.com



has a lot of different effects to use! :D Most people I know use it and say it works really well! Good luck! (:


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