The Darkroom

“I know I’m not exactly inventing the wheel here, but I have been treading one moderately well-trodden path recently: attempting to recreate the look of a few types of film I know and like. The method I chose was the simplest possible: attempting to create a set of Photoshop curves I could use to give photos these looks with a minimum of fuss. I don’t even pretend to aim for accuracy. It wouldn’t really help much in any case, since the photos on which I want to use them come from a variety of cameras and converters, and therefore no single method would be applicable to all of them. I haven’t done any side-by-side comparison shots of film versus digital, although I have compared my results against some scans I’ve made previously — and nope, they’re not exact matches, nor, I think, will they ever be. But they do go at least a part of the way towards recreating the feel I used to create by my choice of film stock.”

From Petteri’s Pontifications

Check out this interesting article about simulating film effects  with Photoshop!