Lomography Look ?

[Roboday]

Ok, for some reason those links have been shortened.
[Obviously a vignette is easy enough].

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[Roboday]

Hey Dave, Im talking about using After Effects with shot HD footage [maybe I should have said that to start with].
Not stills.

TIA.

[Jay Blanchard]

Hiking up the contrast and saturation would be a good start; crush the blacks & add a fake fisheye effect.

[Roboday]

yeah, i’ve already been playing with those, but im not getting those looks of weird colouration across seemingly random areas, not yet anyway with just those 2.
If anyone gets close, dont be shy to show us.

[Steve Roberts]

I’d add a layer with the ramp effect applied, tinted in some fashion with a funky transfer mode over the hue/sat effected footage. If you need the same thing randomly applied across the frame, try a fractal noise layer applied the same way.

You might need to change those layers on every cut, to make the effect less noticeable.

Steve

[Roboday]

Ahhh yeah mate, its comming along a lot better now !

[Annaël Beauchemin]

[RobOday] “but im not getting those looks of weird colouration across seemingly random areas”

Basicaly, use curves to add contrast in different channels (RGB). To add contrast, you must do a S shaped curve. You can add global conrast to the RGB channel and then fiddle with R, G or B separately. I put this filter on an adjustement layer.

You then need to add a black halo using a radial ramp on a solid layer set to multiply. Then another, smaller, set to add, for the central bleach. You put those two layers between the source picture and the adjustement layer.

a composition is worth 1000 words:

https://junktape.com/lomo_test.zip

[Roboday]

“a composition is worth 1000 words”

I certainly agree, however your explaination was good too 🙂
I look forwards to checking out your file.
🙂

[Derrick]

Thanks for including a sample file, this always makes it easier for us novice guys to learn the techniques!

– Derrick

[Milesl2@mac.com]

Here’s another one that adds a slight “film look”. Apply Hue Saturation to an adjustment layer at the top of the comp and desaturate. Apply curves and adjust the individual R, G, and B to make the straight line look like a jagged line (maybe 8 or so points each?). Apply another Hue/Saturation underneath the curve effect and adjust saturation back up. Go back to your adjusted curves and fix to your taste (ie more green, less red, etc) Add salt and serve.