What you need to have: Adobe Photoshop
What you will learn: colour mood adjustments + depth of field effect + film effect
PS: ⌘ key for Mac users / CTRL key for Windows users
Colour mood adjustments
1. Adjust the Hue/Saturation: ⌘U/CTRL-U
2. Adjust the brightness and contrast: Menu > Image > Adjustments > Exposure…
Depth of field effect
3. Duplicate current active layer by dragging it to the ‘create a new layer’ button located at the bottom of Layer window.
4. Apply lens blur on the new layer on top: Menu > Filter > Blur > Lens Blur…
Adjust according to your own preference.
5. Click on the ‘add layer mask’ button at the bottom of Layer window. Then click and select the ‘Layer mask thumbnail’ (the white rectangle).
6. Select brush tool(b), set the master diameter to 400px. Then choose the focus point in the photo and click on it.
Film effect
7. Create a new layer by clicking the ‘create a new layer’ button located at the bottom of Layer window.
8. Fill the new layer with black colour: reset colour to default black & white (d), switch black colour to background (x), fill the layer (⌘-del/CTRL-backspace)
9. Set the opacity of the black layer to 70% by pressing ‘7′
10. Use erase tool(e), set the master diameter to 400px. Then start erase the center of the photo.
11. Flatten the image: Menu > Layer > Flatten Image and add noise: Menu > Filter > Noise > Add Noise…
Cinemascope (optional)
12. Add black bars on top and bottom of photo and it’s done!
Use Rectangular Marquee Tool(m) to select (drag) upper part of photo, hold the shift key and select the bottom part, fill with black colour (⌘-del/CTRL-backspace)
You can also add an extra step to twist the colour into this mood by using ‘Color Balance’(⌘B/CTRL-B). Drag the slider towards cyan and blue for Shadows, Midtones & Highlights.
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Thanx a lot for this tut dude. i ve been looking for this
I’ll be posting more useful tutorials from time to time.
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fantastic! thanks a lot. you’re bookmarked.
Cheers man really good tutorial, just tried it on a couple of pictures and they look ace!
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Great tutorial! I will surely use this! Thanks!
Great effect. Thanks for the tip.
Cool, why not make a litle action to people to download?
this is very nice !
thanks for sharing ^^
Loved the effect~!
Many people visited this blog after smashingmagazine.com and roscripts.com linked to this tutorial.
I’m glad that you guys can actually make use of this tutorial and apply it onto your own artwork. You can also contact me or leave a comment if you are wondering how to create certain effect that you have seen in somewhere.
very nice!
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yah, i just tired these on a photo, did not work. your directions suck, dude!
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this is a very cool effect.
thankx for sharing.
Very cool effect!
très sympa, merci !
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Such a cool effect
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Awesome tutorial, worked well with my test pic only I wish I had blurred it a bit less.
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Hi, veeeery nice tutorial… i have problems with step 10… maybe my image is too big…?, anyway.. is it too much to ask if you do the tutorial again and post it in youtube… (yep a video turorial…) hehehe THANKS.
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This is pretty cool… Is there anyway to apply this effect on an entire video?
I’m using Adobe Photoshop 7.0, but I’m not seeing “Exposure”… ?
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Step #6 Should brush mode should be set to difference or exclusion?
Nice one. I love stuff like this, HDR in HL2, DSLR cameras etc. Thanks heaps, I’m adding that rss.
Hey there! That’s a great tutorial, so much that it’s almost 4 AM and I had to try my hand at it! Here’s the result; I used a picture from last year’s trip to Toronto. What do you think? I think it came out pretty decent!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/hyo/Fu_Sien_Tong_by_Javier_Altman.jpg
Cheers!
Javier / The Outsider’s View - http://www.javieraltman.com.ar/blog
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Just wanted to add that this is totally possible in the gimp, even for an amateur.
bummer!!!
PS 8 had no Image>Adjustment>Exposure option!
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DS: If your photo is very big, you need to make the erase tool bigger by hitting ‘]’ before click to erase, adjust and test until you satisfy with the result.
Rosario: Photoshop earlier than CS2 has no Exposure feature. However you can try using ‘Brightness and Contrast’.
Jared: Since I am not sure what is ‘difference’ and ‘exclusion’ you mean, I’m just gonna tell you that the brush should be BLACK color in the layer mask thumbnail.
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Hi and thanks very much for the great tutorial! I used it to great effect on this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/m1kemu1r/505571395/
I put a link to the tutorial there too, in the comments.
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Ciao Ebin!
I found your tutorial so useful, I made a little action to automate most of the effects you describe. I just added a couple of tweaks to it: on a particular point you tell the users to flatten the image. I applied a Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E action instead, making a copy of all existing layers and then merging those!. At the end of the process, when you describe how to apply a blue filter to the resulting image, I added a simple “duplicate layer” action, so the effect is put on a new image instead of the original. I think it’s best this way, what do you think?
You may find the action on my site
Enjoy!
Hey ebin! I think you missed my comment, but can you tell me what you think of the results I got on my photograph? Thanks a bunch!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/hyo/Fu_Sien_Tong_by_Javier_Altman.jpg
Cheers!
Javier / The Outsider’s View - http://www.javieraltman.com.ar/blog
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Great tutorial. Thank you!
How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop? « ebin
What you need to have: Adobe Photoshop
What you will learn: colour mood adjustments + depth of field effect + film effect
PS: ⌘ key for Mac users / CTRL key for Windows users
Colour mood adjustments
1. Adjust the Hue/Saturation: ⌘U/CTRL-U
tut2-s…
Wow, this is great! Nice job. I’ll be adding your site to my del.icio.us.
Mine seems to go wrong at the Depth of Field, seems not to work….(nothing happens when using brush tool)
What version of Photoshop Elements is this tutorial in? I am currently using Photoshop Elements 5.0
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Very cool method.
I suck at Photoshop, but I just wanted to show off my pup’s picture after the film effect treatment:
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/5605/vladibkqp9.jpg
Fantastic!! Great job! Been wondering how they do it
wow!!
nice tip, thanks
i feel like a Steven
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ok welli have tried 2 pictures now and they come out looking dark as all hell, im following the steps exactly…
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Huzzah! It’s the “make everything i do look like something out of lord of the rings” tutorial…
shall still be doing it shortly to see how my pictures turn out. thanks.
Whenever I do this on the exposure step my picture is way too dark. I am doing a picture of me when I am standing outside and I can’t even see my face or half of the picture.
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Tried my absolute best to apply this directions word for word and did not succeed. I think it could be re-written just a little better.
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I tried this tuturial and I liked it!
this is before: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vladkuz/506923801/
this is after: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vladkuz/506923809/
Thank you!
Amazing can’t wait to try this! ~BookMarked~
would be great if you could come up with a Action Script for that.
Very nice tutorial. Thanks!
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thanks for the nice tip. i just worked on some of my photos. voila! it changed the whole thing! keep it up!
Thats this came in very handy and helped me with some of my picture in my album and they look really nice thanks to this article.
How about a tutorial on creating a Soap Opera effect like Day of our lives or any US daytime soap opera…
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Could you maybe post the same howto for GIMP?
This is a very cool tips. I like it.
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Although nifty, and a really helpful tutorial for those so inclined, all of these effects aren’t really required to make your photos look like stills from a movie. It really depends on what you’re photographing. For instance, the name of my company is LetterboxTen because of the cinematic effect my images have. Of course there is post processing, but I don’t use any crazy manipulated methods to produce my photos. Check it out if you want. letterboxten.com
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I need help~ i tried to follow your step by step procedure. Realised, when i wanted to go to Menu > Image > Adjustments > Exposure…, I couldn’t find the exposure selection, why?? I’m using photoshop 7.0. is there some application i need to downloaded from?
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Very nice, thanks so much
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Here’s my attempt on an image of Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richietown/506840007/
Very Nice!
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Very nice effect, and very simple to tweak for different styles.
Here’s my first two attempts with it:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/55800972/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/55805443/
This tutorial might as well be titled, “How to turn a good-looking photograph into a crappy-looking photograph.”
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Great tutorial! Looking forward for more
Works great… I think it would work great at a template, and not an action. If one has diffent sizes pictures….
here are my results.
Step one should read ‘rotate photo 2 degrees counter clockwise’
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Excellent tutorial. I had to tweak it a bit for my photos, but other than that, the general idea worked wonders. I just wish I had some pictures it would look good on.
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