distressed /scratched film effect

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:10:43 -0400, "frankg"
wrote:

I posted this under a different heading without luck.

Actually you got two answers that I can see.

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In article <Qu4Pe.388$
says…

I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
F

The ones that I looked at, seemed to have a reticulated pattern on them, and the lower-key contrast and desaturation of color of the photo helped the look. I’ve got several "reticulation" pattern filters, most from Andromeda, but I’m not sure what was used here. Also, a Layer with fill, then reticulation, and Opacity change, plus Blending Mode (maybe Lighten, or Soft Light) could well have been used. If Reticulation is not handy, one might try Noise>Add Noise.

Just thinking,
Hunt

"frankg" wrote:

I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

I tried this too, you will find the result at:

http://tinyurl.com/dst6u

If you like the effect, feel free to download the zip archive containing the PS file to learn how I did it. Be warned that the file is rather large.

IMHO, images of an old wall, ceiling, or road with cracks were used at least for some of the pictures at the site you referenced.

Peter

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask
is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

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I tried this too, you will find the result at:

http://tinyurl.com/dst6u

If you like the effect, feel free to download the zip archive containing the PS file to learn how I did it. Be warned that the file is rather large.

IMHO, images of an old wall, ceiling, or road with cracks were used at least for some of the pictures at the site you referenced.
Peter

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Thank you for this – it’svery good.

Can you tell me more about some of the layers/steps you made, particularly : -the third one "inverted destaurated" &
-the fifth one "flatten red channel"

I think you are right about the texture maybe being a concrete/cement wall ?

Why don’t you mail him….and ask him?

JJ

"frankg" wrote in message

I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer

mask

is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
F

On 2005-08-25 18:42:12 +0200, "JJ" said:

Why don’t you mail him….and ask him?

You shouldn’t post peoples e-mail addresses here, I bet he won’t be happy when spam starts pouring in…

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On 25 Aug 2005 03:02:15 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

In article <Qu4Pe.388$
says…

I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?

Some ideas, which I can’t articulate and haven’t tried. Mostly doing an effect and then fading it a lot, but that doesn’t account for the webbing stuff, unless one did it really dark and faded one heck of a lot. Otherwise some nearly transparent watercolour washes could do a lot of the subtle colour variations. Especially if done with a sponge brush. The specks could be selections done with noise added.

Or the painfully simple way for some that has already been suggested. He printed them and then crunched them in dirt or wet them somewhat and then did the watercolour trick of tossing on some salt.

Some look as if they’ve been reduced to sepia and then had washes painted over.

But thank you for giving his URL. I like his work.

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"frankg" wrote:

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Thank you for this – it’svery good.

Can you tell me more about some of the layers/steps you made, particularly : -the third one "inverted destaurated" &
-the fifth one "flatten red channel"

I think you are right about the texture maybe being a concrete/cement wall ?

The third layer is there to reduce the contrast of the original photograph which was taken under a bright spanish sky. Contrast reduction can be done by desaturating a copy of the original – this prevents color casts – then inverting it and mixing it in soft light mode. This results in reduced contrast, since areas of the mask which are darker than 50% grey will darken the original and areas lighter than 50% grey will lighten it. A negative is by definition particularly dark in light areas of the original and vice versa. By changing the opacity of the masking layer the amount of contrast reduction can be controlled. Some of the authorities suggest to slightly blur the mask layer in order to prevent artifacts, but this is not important here.
When you look at the red curve in the fifth layer, you will find that it is flattened. This mimicks the deterioration which occurs with some colored images on storage under suboptimal conditions and I felt it would come close to the discoloration of the images at Mark Tucker’s site.

Peter

Thank you for this – it’svery good.

Can you tell me more about some of the layers/steps you made, particularly :
-the third one "inverted destaurated" &
-the fifth one "flatten red channel"

I think you are right about the texture maybe being a concrete/cement wall ?

The third layer is there to reduce the contrast of the original photograph which was taken under a bright spanish sky. Contrast reduction can be done by desaturating a copy of the original – this prevents color casts – then inverting it and mixing it in soft light mode. This results in reduced contrast, since areas of the mask which are darker than 50% grey will darken the original and areas lighter than 50% grey will lighten it. A negative is by definition particularly dark in light areas of the original and vice versa. By changing the opacity of the masking layer the amount of contrast reduction can be controlled. Some of the authorities suggest to slightly blur the mask layer in order to prevent artifacts, but this is not important here.
When you look at the red curve in the fifth layer, you will find that it is flattened. This mimicks the deterioration which occurs with some colored images on storage under suboptimal conditions and I felt it would come close to the discoloration of the images at Mark Tucker’s site.

Peter

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Thanks again Peter
I think the only place that I’m still a little stuck on is the "inverting it ".
I cant quite understand it.

Are you Duplicating the original/background layer and then going to Image>Adjust>Destaurate.
And then to Image >Invert and changing the blending mode?

And then Image>Hue/Saturation to reduce Cyan saturation (or Master?) etc.

frankg wrote:

I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
F

probably a mix of filters and layered textures

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"frankg" wrote:

Thank you for this – it’svery good.

Can you tell me more about some of the layers/steps you made, particularly :
-the third one "inverted destaurated" &

….

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Thanks again Peter
I think the only place that I’m still a little stuck on is the "inverting it ".
I cant quite understand it.

Are you Duplicating the original/background layer and then going to Image>Adjust>Destaurate.
And then to Image >Invert and changing the blending mode?
And then Image>Hue/Saturation to reduce Cyan saturation (or Master?) etc.

That is exactly what I did. The third layer reduces the contrast of the original, excessive cyan was reduced in the fourth layer. Peter