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Old School Photo effect help please!
Tom Mann
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Here's what comes first to my mind:
1. A long, large aperture telephoto lens was used to get the nice blobby out-of-focus highlights in the background. This is the foundation of the whole rest of the look of the image.
2. Posterization of both the tonality and colors was obviously used. Medhi has a nice, free plugin called Posterizer that can separately set the degree of posterization of the luminosity and hue.
3. Some sort of diffusion / grain effect was used to get the colored speckles (eg, around each of the OOF blobs). This could be something like PS's "Glass", Richard Rosenman's "Diffuse", or anything similar.
4. To get the black speckles, they might have added a thresholded "Poster Edges" effect. Lots and lots of other ways to do this, as well.
Good luck with it.
Tom M
1. A long, large aperture telephoto lens was used to get the nice blobby out-of-focus highlights in the background. This is the foundation of the whole rest of the look of the image.
2. Posterization of both the tonality and colors was obviously used. Medhi has a nice, free plugin called Posterizer that can separately set the degree of posterization of the luminosity and hue.
3. Some sort of diffusion / grain effect was used to get the colored speckles (eg, around each of the OOF blobs). This could be something like PS's "Glass", Richard Rosenman's "Diffuse", or anything similar.
4. To get the black speckles, they might have added a thresholded "Poster Edges" effect. Lots and lots of other ways to do this, as well.
Good luck with it.
Tom M
Tom Mann
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You're welcome! BTW, don't ask me how the underside of the nearest player's legs got so weird, especially considering that the underside of the legs of the more distant player (ie, also shadowed about equally) only has a hint of this effect. If u figure a way to do this than is not purely manual work (eg, a brush), let me know, LOL.
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