Some Post Processing Thoughts.

Before. and. After.

For Fen  and Amasou-Umasou ,

I’m not a Photoshop expert but I do have a few tricks on hand which I have learnt from websites or books over time.  I’ve taken some time to briefly explain how do I get the rusty soft vintage effect. 

1. Create a Copy of your JPEG File. 

Before you start editing your photo, always remember to create a copy of it. I’m sure most people will be familiar with this. If not, do give me a shout.

2. Increase the Brightness/Saturation by +20 (If you want, you can always increase the number)

3. Adjust the Red/Blue/Green Colour Curves.

To do that, click on “Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer” and Curves.

Select the Red Curve and you can try adjusting as follows;

Now,  The Green Curve.

And Finally, The Blue one.

4.  Go to Saturation, Tick on Colorize

and Adjust the Hue (+47) as indicated

and Adjust the Opacity to your choice (I Adjusted it to 27%);

5. Add a Red Colour Fill

To do that, click on “Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer” and Solid Colour and Choose Red.

Adjust the Opacity (5-20%) .

6. Add Vignette

Click on your original File > Filter > Convert for Smart Filters > Distort > Lens Correction

Adjust Vignette to -100.

And Voila!

 Examples of Photos i edited for the above;

Quarry

Gage Street, HK

Hotel Jen, HK

Strolls.

Do Play around with it and you can edit it to your liking. This is just a general guideline to what i do sometimes.

Hope it helps.

TGIF!!

And Happy Weekends!

The Motto for the CNY Week (Quoted from Charles : Feast first, Worry Later! )

 P/S : The Eggs photo is probably not the best photo to shout the post-processing effect but i used it just for illustration purposes.

Thanks to Angeline. I’ve found the original article that helps in my vintage style photos.