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Hi,
I would appreciate advice/help/tips for the following:
I’m currently developing a work-flow strategy for
reproducing/recreating images from old glossy coffee-table photobooks from, say, the 50s. Mostly black and white. Perhaps you may have noticed this before, but these images have very specific characteristics. One of them is that you can see -if you look closely – that they were printed with (now) old fashioned type of offset plates. The greys are often soft and diffused, there are shadows/hues from the plates, there is a visible dot, loss of sharpness when compared to modern photography/print.
This effect is something that I’m striving to reproduce in Photoshop. I’ve been looking at halftone processes, but I think I need a special filter. Can’t find one, though. The other option (well, the one that I came up with) would be to have new cliché plates made, then scan these into the computer and tweak them in PS. This is something which will cost money and time, henceforth something to avoid.
Is there anybody that can give other tips and solutions to easily recreate this "special fifties feeling"? FIY, I work on Mac platform and prefer PS, although I can also use Quark or Illustrator.
Thanks for your replies!
I would appreciate advice/help/tips for the following:
I’m currently developing a work-flow strategy for
reproducing/recreating images from old glossy coffee-table photobooks from, say, the 50s. Mostly black and white. Perhaps you may have noticed this before, but these images have very specific characteristics. One of them is that you can see -if you look closely – that they were printed with (now) old fashioned type of offset plates. The greys are often soft and diffused, there are shadows/hues from the plates, there is a visible dot, loss of sharpness when compared to modern photography/print.
This effect is something that I’m striving to reproduce in Photoshop. I’ve been looking at halftone processes, but I think I need a special filter. Can’t find one, though. The other option (well, the one that I came up with) would be to have new cliché plates made, then scan these into the computer and tweak them in PS. This is something which will cost money and time, henceforth something to avoid.
Is there anybody that can give other tips and solutions to easily recreate this "special fifties feeling"? FIY, I work on Mac platform and prefer PS, although I can also use Quark or Illustrator.
Thanks for your replies!
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