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- funnydale, on 10/11/2007, -5/+292Wow, you linked to the original source instead of Lifehacker? Just for that, I'm giving this a digg.
- mrgono3, on 10/11/2007, -13/+115@swifty
u killed the joke - skyfire1, on 10/11/2007, -4/+99I prefer to call them gimpy old men.
- RedTroll, on 10/11/2007, -8/+68Please don't mention Adobe Photoshop around here, it makes the Linux zealots angry.
- mogoi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+58Still waiting for the Bollywood effect...
- mark1372, on 10/11/2007, -1/+48Color Saturation = 100%
- randomgeek, on 10/11/2007, -2/+41Which means it's a really good effect. Hollywood often sucks all the joy out of me. :(
- DeathBorn, on 10/11/2007, -5/+44Woah, it came out pretty awesome.
This can be done on GIMP as well.
http://i3.tinypic.com/681a1j4.png - mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -2/+38Get magic bullet suite plugin for premier or after effects. It does a much better job.
- etoiles, on 10/11/2007, -6/+41I think this is more like "Give your photos a video game cinematic effect" (the only thing missing is the specular bloom :-)
- MSTK, on 10/11/2007, -4/+35It's a tutorial for photoshop, not a marketing campaign.
- fnkydonuts, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34http://www.flickr.com/photos/40257736@N00/506370906/in/photostream/
my attempt - ThetaDot, on 10/11/2007, -5/+30I wonder if there is a way to save that as a macro and then apply it to frames of video?
Maybe Adobe Premier can do that? - proghead, on 10/11/2007, -9/+27'course, the "before" photo is a happy "tourist-vacation" type feel and the "after" has had all the joy sucked out of it...
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/11/2007, -13/+31Hollywood sucks.
- OBKenobi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Make those "boring" vacation tropical beach pics look like you spent your vacation in a grainy, desaturated WW2 movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
- Reziarfg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I think your attempt made the guy giving the woman whatever that is, a bit too blurry. In such a way that he looks like you're purposefully blurring out his identity.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Experiment with the Orton Effect on your photos for a bit of the 300 look.
For example:
- duplicate your layer twice (for an original backup)
- set top layer to screen mode
- merge down
- duplicate layer
- Gaussian blur enough to take out details
- set layer to multiply
I put that in a Photoshop action that halts on the blur step for input. ;) - therightclique, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16are trying to insinuate that gimp or paintshop are even in the same league as photoshop!?!?!?? you'd have to be mentally challenged. paintshop is lame. gimp i understand. easily the best free editor available for any OS. paintshop is a waste of time.
- Ladon, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17"Why would you cover up half the image by unnecessary widescreen bars? That is just retarded. If you really want to add those stupid black bars put them above and below the image, not over it."
You're not familiar with aspect ratio, are you... - drouk1556, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Duplicate Layer > Overlay > Gaussian Blur
- danger127, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=4uo2b8k
here's mine - exoendo, on 10/11/2007, -9/+19@ij00mini (#6782193)
welcome. - vhtrading, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Nice tutorial, but...
Am I the only one who's getting tired of this effect in the movies themselves? Too many films have this semi-colorized, bleached-out, filtered-all-to-hell look. On rare occasion it befits the movie, such as the green-tinted look of the Matrix or Spielberg's washed-out documentary look during the battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan. But too many directors are overusing these digital filters just because they can. It can be 12 o'clock on a nice, sunny day in the movie and it looks like the sky's going dark and green and a tornado is able to hit...Just gimme some real, natural colors. - dimplemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13yeah, and....what's your point?
- barkingfrog, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11I call it the Munich effect.
- grinding, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8What filter would you use in Magic Bullet to apply the same effect?
- EelfinnTy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Adobe CS3 extended will do some video editing by frame and you could create an Action to make the changes. I'm not sure if you can apply the actions to every frame. I have never tried it.
- bobbothegrayson, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Personally I think it looks best after the second step.
- Barryke, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10you forgot MS Paint.
version 5.1 really hits the limits of current graphical capabilities. - YoungDeezy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7@flashman
Is that Skreech? - Micherik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Well, this really is a bad tutorial in many ways.. Most steps are either resoution, or exposure dependant, it does not really explain how and what you really should do with _your_ picture. if you are a beginner with Photoshop, this in many ways only help you to make this effect with this particular photo.
- UCFartstudntJON, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7It's simply a tool to create continuity and style in a film, but I agree, overused.
- psycho79, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9This reminds me of a VG Cats comic...
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=224
Sometimes too much 'realism' = FTL - Flashman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7No. It's me.
(Oh well, I guess it's nice to be mistaken for a guy with his own sex tape.) - nextyoyoma, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6That looks nothing like this effect.
- dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6There's been very few films I've seen that use extremely heavy colour-grading to the point where I find it detracts from the film - Even PItch Black, despite being "over-graded" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1wdppJP6d4 # From about 1:30 in is how most of the day-time parts of the film look) I still think it adds something to the film.
Atleast with low- (or no-) budget films the biggest problem is *lack* of colour-correction or colour-grading, spending 5 seconds a shot making sure the colour is consistent, or applying subtle tints (When it makes sense, not just "because I can") and the likes can make a huge difference in how professional or "good" a film looks.
As for feature films, I don't think there's any huge jump-up in colour grading from all the processing done to films compared to colour-grading when they use DI - Most directors know what they want the film to look like, and will get it one way of another (Filters on the camera, film processing or DI grading)
Obviously the "Matrix-tint" on a grimy documentary is going to look silly, and there are times when ungraded film makes sense - I've not really noticed many out-of-place grading in films (Then again given the budget on them I'm not surprised), and I don't watch much TV where it might be more prevelant.
The reason behind "It can be 12 o'clock on a nice, sunny day in the movie and it looks like the sky's going dark and green and a tornado is able to hit" is that it's a lot easier to make a dark scene look good than it is to do a brightly lit set - Darkness hides things well, so you might get away with cutting of a day or two of set-dressing, or that extra layer of makeup on your actors - It's not really an excuse, and it's also easier (and more common, for what ever reasons) to make films about more "dark" events/people : I don't imagine you'll see much in the way of thunderstorm-graded skies in a kids TV show - It just doesn't make sense in such shows, but a lot of films do lend themselves to dark and scary lighting..
I don't think DI-grading (Digital replacement for film-post-processing, in case someone actually read the above text without knowing what it was..) is so much making directors over-use it for the sake of using it, as much as it gives them the flexibility to do what they want (If nothing else, by being able to experiment with different grades by playing with a computer, instead of having to wait for film labs) - robohoe, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Yah, I like the effect too. I think with some more effects, you could turn out something pretty neat.
- cambob76, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I like to draw with crayons.
- otep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I wish there was a "duhh" button.
- Supurcell, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Very nicely done. It really feels like a screen capture from a movie.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5***** you!
- dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Haven't used Premier for ages, but there should be a "Export to > Filmstrip file" that you can open in Photoshop as a (huge) image. You then open the image in Photoshop, apply the effects to the entire image (Which may take a while, so it'd be an idea to either make an action and let it run while you do other things, or write down the settings for each filter so you don't have to wait 10 minutes for the preview to show up) and save it (Which should update the video im Premier).
Since it'd be a pain to manually for each frame, it'd be easier to do the letterboxing in Premier (Although I dislike letterbox, either shoot in 16:9 or mask of your viewfinder and crop it after you capture the footage..)
Photoshop CS3 has direct video-editing features in it, but the Filmstrip file support as been in Premier for ages and will do what you want..
..although, you should be able to get this effect with Premier's built-in colour correction tools, the Hue/Saturatoin and Exposure settings are definitely there, the lens-blur may be slightly more time-consuming (Unless you want the lens-blur static regardless of camera movement or people/objects moving etc - Pretty sure they used a similar tilt-shift blur in Heroes and it worked quite well..), but still do-able. The "Film Effect" is just vignetting which there should be a filter for (if not a black-slug and a layer-mask will do it), and there should be a noise filter. - Flashman, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9Here's mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035552668@N01/506786069/
- jubba, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Nasty.
"Here's how to make a picture look like a blurry, oddly coloured and low resolution version of its former self." - nickstl77, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@secondimpact
Figured it out, in CS2 when you click on the brush, you also have to select "Exclusion" in the drop down box for the properties of the brush instead of "Normal". - InsomniaSlim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Here's my modest attempt, with a link-back:
http://www.clintandrewhall.com/blog/2007/05/new-picture-technique/
(and no, I'm not trolling... I don't have any ads on my blog. I just want to share, s'all) - JCDenton513, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4What looks good is good but you used way to much blur on the sides. Makes it look like the viewer had tunnel vision.
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4It looks more like some game I can't really remember... Some version of Resident Evil, I think.
- lefrat, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6GIMP "translation" of the tutorial if anyone is interested: http://gimpology.com/submission/view/make_your_photo_look_like_a_hollywood_movie/
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