Photo Quickies

PhotoQuickie first read about the Lomo effect from the A-list blogger Kottke, way back before we were even interested in photography. It seemed a bit neat, but we had no idea why we would want to use something like that, nor why it made photos better.

Well, PhotoQuickie was fooling around with Photoshop the other day, and decided to take a new stab about the Lomo effect. What is the Lomo effect anyways? Well it is the style of photography produced by LOMO cameras, frequently characterized by vignetting on the corners and saturated colours. PhotoQuickie understands better by seeing an example, so here is one:

Post-processing your digital photos with this effect is rather easily done by following a tutorial such as this. PhotoQuickie quickly got tired of following these instructions over and over and created a Photoshop action as suggested in the tutorial.

PhotoQuickie has had more success (to our eyes at least) however with this slightly more challenging tutorial to achieve the Lomo effect, which uses curves. I suggest trying a few with the former then moving on the to latter to get a much better presentation.

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