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Bleach Bypass Effect

Kelly Anne Wills — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:42:38 +0000

It’s been used in the films Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, and others. Bleach Bypass is actually an effect you can achieve on film when you skip bleaching while processing color film, leaving the silver retained on the negative. In the end, what you get is an image with high contrast, graininess, and reduced saturation. If you would like the grainy feel in your image, visit my Realistic Film Grain tutorial!

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Faded White and Pink Effect Inspired by Nylon Magazine

Kelly Anne Wills — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:40:21 +0000

Well pretty much everything is in Nylon. Photo toning is probably my favorite thing to do in Photoshop. Well that and play around with layer masks, but that’s neither here nor there today. I’ve been thinking of turning this into a series since there is just so much in that magazine that gets my creative juices flowing.

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How To Warm Up Your Photos

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:41:22 +0000

This is easy to do and the technique is very flexible and simple to adjust on the fly, have fun!

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The Better Way to Vignette Photos

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:43:21 +0000

It’s imperfect like real vignettes are, the transitions are smoother, my life is filled with sunshine and rainbows. LIFE CHANGING.

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Quick and Easy Sepia

Kelly Anne Wills — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:12:45 +0000

Sepia is the dark brown pigment that comes from secretions of the ink sac of a Cuttlefish. That ink was then mixed in with other chemicals that resulted in the tones of the photograph to be in shades of brown instead of gray, back in the 1880s. They have since developed artificial toners and now with Photoshop you don’t even need the chemicals. Or the Cuttlefish. Pretty neat.

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Effect Inspired By Coldplay’s Violet Hill Video

Kelly Anne Wills — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:42:33 +0000

So when I saw the Violet Hill video I loved the somewhat dark and gritty feel of it. And now the tut is born.

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Zoom Effect

Kelly Anne Wills — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:43:06 +0000

Sometimes even when you have a zoom lens on your camera, you may not have the patience to nail it. I don’t, so I just do it post-production. Either way it’s great and an interesting effect to try on your photos!

If you’re interested in achieving this effect using your camera, check out this great post at the Digital Photography School.

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Boosting Contrast

Kelly Anne Wills — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:10:50 +0000

For the little amount of effort involved, this technique gives you a lot of bang for your buck!

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Soft Focus Effect

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:41:58 +0000

I am also going to be using a photo of Hilarie Burton, who plays Peyton on my FAVORITE TV show – One Tree Hill, in honor of it returning last night. So great! If you aren’t watching it, you need to be. Oh, yes. So there’s your free promotion, One Tree Hill. You’re welcome.

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Tip: If the Soft Focus effect is too much for your taste you can change the opacity of the layer.

Realistic Film Grain

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:50:28 +0000

Experiment with the amount, sometimes a subtle effect looks much better.

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