Professional to amateur

Greetings!

I know there's a lot of tutorials on the web on how to make an amateur photograph look professional. But is there a way to do the opposite...make a professional picture look amateur? In the same vein, a professional picutre look like it was taken with a cell phone?

Eugene

Anybody?

Eugene wrote:

Greetings!

I know there's a lot of tutorials on the web on how to make an amateur photograph look professional. But is there a way to do the opposite...make a professional picture look amateur? In the same vein, a professional picutre look like it was taken with a cell phone?
Eugene

On 21 Dec 2006 15:09:03 -0800, "Eugene"
wrote:

Anybody?

Eugene wrote:

Greetings!

I know there's a lot of tutorials on the web on how to make an amateur photograph look professional. But is there a way to do the opposite...make a professional picture look amateur? In the same vein, a professional picutre look like it was taken with a cell phone?
Eugene

I've never seen a cell phone picture, but I would imagine it's slightly out of focus, grainy, and undersaturated. Could you just try using those functions in PhotoShop? (the Blur filter....the Noise filter, and the Saturation adjustment).
I'm not sure if that will work for the amateur look that you want, but you could try.

Talker