{"id":8082,"date":"2023-06-08T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2023-07-07T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:36:01","slug":"rps-digital-imaging-group-ecircle-processing-a-technical-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"RPS Digital Imaging Group eCircle Processing (a technical post)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this year I joined the Royal Photographic Society and as part of my membership I joined the Digital Imaging Group which runs smaller ‘eCircles’ where small numbers of people get together to show their work and discuss techniques etc. I joined one of these groups for processing images in Photoshop. Each month a member submits an image to the group for everyone to process ready for the following month where the techniques used are discussed – essentially we learn from each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month one one of my images was used – this is a view of Essex Bridge, a medieval stone bridge over the River Trent adjacent to the National Trust property of Shugborough. Below I show the processing I used to get the final image. But first I show the original and final image within a comparison slider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting image with basic exposure adjustments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Final image for an old picture effect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, the image has been deliberately downgraded to create the effect. So how did I get there? First I tried a vintage colour effect using the Camera Raw facility:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vintage Colour 03 effect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This wasn’t sufficient for me so I tried sepia toning. For this I have built my own routine which uses 3 layers: a Gradient Map, Hue Saturation, and a Curves adjustment. This image shows the layers in Photoshop (placed together in a group) that I used to produce the effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using Photoshop to apply plain sepia toning to the image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This, I felt, improved the ‘age’ of the photograph but was clearly insufficient – I needed an old decaying frame. For this I photographed the viewfinder on an old ‘Box Brownie’ type of camera which was pointing at a plain white background. After some editing it gave this image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edited box camera viewfinder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I used this 3 times in Photoshop: as is, inverted with the prominent mark removed, and enlarged and rotated to give a different look. This shows the effect as seen in Photoshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viewfinder image as applied to the image in Photoshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is beginning to look more like what I had envisioned but still not enough. I thought the sky was a bit bland so I decided to add a bit of texture to roughen it up. I used a photograph of a stone wall – this is placed in the layer stack underneath the Sepia toning group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stone wall to provide texture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stone wall layer in the layer stack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm, this is getting better but not quite there; old images were distorted and less sharp. For this I duplicated the background layer and (after reading how to do it!) created 2 smart filters, one with lens correction (custom setting with 100% pin cushion distortion) and the other with Gaussian Blur (4px).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voila! I have the effect I wanted. You may hate it but…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final image for an old picture effect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year I joined the Royal Photographic Society and as part of my membership I joined the Digital Imaging Group which runs smaller ‘eCircles’ where small numbers of people get together to show their work and discuss techniques etc. I joined one of these groups for processing images in Photoshop. Each month a member … Continue reading “RPS Digital Imaging Group eCircle Processing (a technical post)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,11,96,100,3,134,94,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-after","category-landscape","category-national-trust","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-rps","category-staffordshire","category-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8098,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}