Lomo Pres

Main tute I used:

http://www.slrlounge.com/the-ultimate-lomo-photography-effect-tutorial-lomography-photoshop-video-tutorial

THE PROCESS

•Use a raw file so you can tweak everything easily!

•Lower exposure

•Lower black, crush!

•Increase contrast

•Increase clarity

•Increase vibrancy

•Warm up temp

•Make new layer

•Create a vignette

•Use lasso and draw a rough circle around where you want the vignette to show up

•Feather (250px) the selection so there are no hard lines

•Invert the selection ctrl shift I

•Create a level adjustment layer

•Pull up shadows

•Add curves layer

•Pull high lights up

•Pull midtowns down

•Deepen shadows

•Add another curves layer

•Adjust each individual level R,G,B

•Reds up in highlights down in shadows

•Green up in highlights and down in shadows

•Blue drop highlights increase shadows

•Merge layers

•Add hue saturation layer

•Boost saturation

•Merge layers

•Add new layer

•Filter lens blur

•Radius high 44 ish  

•Add a mask

•Paint brush tool B opacity and flow 50% each

•Make sure black is selected

•Paint where you want the sharpness layer to come through

•Click to white if you want to increase the blur around edges

•Sharpen underlying layer,

•Filter, sharpen, unsharp mask

•Strengthen any area you want sharp.

 

Before

After Lomo Effect!