Lomo LC-A with cross-processing in Photoshop
Because of my wife's battle with cancer I am now strapped for cash, so, due to the high cost of traditional cross-processing, I have begun to experiment with digital cross-processing via Photoshop. Yeah, I know, you're a Lomo purist and you hate Photoshop, right? Get over yourself ; ) In my humble opinion, Photoshop is a wonderful tool that just happens to get mis-used & abused by a lot of people...I'll hold that against the abusers, not the program.
Anyway, I'm actually quite happy with the results I've been getting, but it's true; I really miss those surprising, random flashes of beauty that come along with traditionally cross-processed slide film. I've been mostly sticking to Curve adjustments, but there are of course, many, many ways to achieve a cross-process look in Photoshop, including the Channel Mixer, Gradient Map, and Balance Color functions. This photo was shot smack-dab in the middle of a sunny day, on Fuji Superia 100, which is my current favorite film.
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4 Comments:
hey-- you are getting some great results. the colors are beautiful in this photo. may i ask of what steps you're using in photoshop to achieve the x-processed look? thanks! nice work :)
sending skyward whispers that your wife recovers quickly. she is a strong lady.
Hi irja, thanks for the kind words : D
I'm hella' busy at work today, but I promise I'll get back to answering your question...just check back in a day or two!
thanks
hey man, i love the photoshop tweaks too. I downloaded a bunch of actions and stuff from flickr posts, but the best tweaks come from learning how curves work and some gradient fills for the vignetting. here's some of mine. I'd also love to hear about your photoshop process, your tweaks are very subtle and they don't blow the picture out.
give your wife my best, my mom went through the same.
Hey, how do you go about cross processing? Can you just shoot color negative film with a regular 35mm? I've seen so many people using everything but that ...
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I am very interested in this technique, and I don't have photoshop nor can I afford it :P so I want to try traditional. Your pictures are very beautiful :o)
--Rachael
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