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Create a customizable lomo style action in Photoshop
If you are a fan of lomo style cross-processed photos then this should be right up your alley. We will create a time saving Photoshop action, you can later on use on your photos.
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If it's the first time you are creating a Photoshop action, I would suggest you to go through a short How to create Photoshop action tutorial. It's not necessary, but it will be easier for you to follow this one.
Open a photograph.
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Go to Actions and click the Create new action button.
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Name your new action and click Record.
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In the menu click Layer -> New Adjustment Layer and choose Curves...
Click OK.
Now in the Curves Adjustment Layer settings, choose the Red channel.
Create a same curve as I did. Simply click and drag the curve at the same points as I did.
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Choose the Green channel.
Create a same curve as I did. Simply click and drag the curve at the same points as I did.
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Now choose the Blue channel.
First, click and drag the start and end point of the curve the same way as I did.
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And create the same curve as I did by clicking and dragging at 3 additional points on the curve (see picture).
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We now got that lomo style, cross-processed look we went for. All we need to do now is to adjust the levels a bit.
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In the menu click Layer -> New Adjustment Layer and choose Levels...
Click OK.
Only slightly drag the black slider to the right and the while slider to the left.
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You can now close the Adjustment Layers setting windows.
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Our Lomo Photoshop action is complete, click the Stop playing/recording button.
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Here's my end result.
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Let's now try to apply the Lomo/Cross-process action we just made to another photo and let's see if it works the way we imagine it should.
Open a new photo.
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Go to Actions, click the Cross-Process action we made and click the Play selection button.
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Pretty neat right? From now on you can use the Cross-Process action button for all the photos you want to apply the lomo effect to without the need of going through the whole curves and levels setting process.
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And what's even cooler, as we used the Adjustment Layers, you can simply double click the icon next to them ...
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... and the Adjustment Layer settings window shows up. You can now fine tune the image if you are not quite satisfied with the default settings we made.
Enjoy your "lomography"
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