How to Make Old and “Damaged” Photos – A Vintage Effect

In this tutorial, I will try to explain how to turn your new, color photos into old and “damaged” photos. For this tutorial I picked a simple picture of Venice’s Canal Grande. We will turn this contemporary shot into a weathered and scratched vintage photo with torn edges. Follow the details in the tutorial and you’ll be able to turn your own photos into similarly “damaged” ones.

How to Achieve the Effect from the Movie “300″

In this tutorial I’ll try to explain how to adjust your images to give them a tone similar to the one that was used in the postproduction of the movie 300. A LOT has been written and published on the internet about different procedures for achieving this, but after trying many of them myself on different images, I found that the procedure that I’m about to describe works best on a variety of different images.

How to Create the LOMO Effect for Your Digital Photos

When the LOMO LC-A camera was first created in the early 1980’s, the photographers regarded it as a poorly-built camera and a poor photo-taker. The configuration of the camera is the main “culprit” for the unique look of the photos taken by it. Due to the unique look, the LOMO photography became immensely popular in the 1990’s and the popularity has been growing ever since. The photos taken by a LOMO camera are distinguishable for their off-kilter exposure, strongly increased saturation and a classic vignette (the photo is dark at the sides and the corners).