Easily Create Lomo Effects with Photoshop Actions

Lomography or Lomo actually is a commercial trademark of 35mm film camera from Austria, but because of unique color-cast and style that they’re produce (may be by accidents). The word Lomography now become to emphasizes casual, snapshot photography, or photographs that have high-contrast photographs, with unusual saturation and color (and sometime noisy). This were created using the technique called cross processing. And of course can be easily mimicked with digital photographs.

Note: Cross Processing is dark room technique, which process film that intended for developing in slide chemistry (E-6) is processed in photographic negative chemistry (C-41), and vice versa.

At Addicted to Design (A2d) website, that creating high quality commercial and freeware Photoshop actions, Lomo Effect action is one of free action that available for download.

This action is absolutely free and easy to use. You can create cool Lomo camera effect to your photo at a click. After download you can simply load the action to photoshop (see Loading photoshop actions for detailed instruction). Open you image you want to apply and run the action call “Lomo (free)”. That’s it!

The Lomo effect in this action is achieved by modifying color saturation, tone and contrast and addition of visible edge vignetting. This action add “character” to almost any photo.

You can also try to simulate Lomo effect yourself. This allow you to custom your color, contrast and effect to best suit to your need. To have a good start you may check it out at Photoshop Tutorial website. They have step-by-step tutorial to simulate the effect of lomo camera in detail. (See Photoshop Tutorials - Lomography)

If you are not sure what Lomography or Lomo really are. You may check it out Lomography Official website. There are thousand of lomography photos. You can use it as your reference to fine tune your digital photo to get there unique effect.

Download: Free Photoshop Actions at Addicted to Design (A2D)

Compatible with Adobe Photoshop 5, 6, 7, CS and CS2 (PC/Mac)

Resources:

• Addicted to Design
• Lomography Official website
• Photoshop Tutorials - Lomography

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• What is Photoshop Action?
• Using Photoshop Action
• Saving and loading photoshop actions

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