Old Film Edit

An idea of mine was to try out an 'old film grain' effect. I thought this could add a more obvious symbolism of film to the picture. I have always been interested in this textured look and wanted to try it out for myself. I found a youtuber called NowPhotoshop with a tutorial on this edit, which is how I learned the technique.

To practice giving my pictures the old film grain effect, I used a picture of myself that I took while practising with the camera. I chose to use this picture because its very simple and has a plain background so I thought it would be easier to edit for my first try.

The original picture

First I duplicated the layer and added the pointilise filter at 0.3, the gaussian blur at 0.9 and overlayed the layer.

Next I used the black and white effect and lightened the highlights on the red and yellow.
I used the layer effect 'difference' and turned down the opacity to dull the red and yellow tones.

Now that the photo was ready, I layered pictures of slate, grain or scratches over
 the top and used the 'hard light' layer effect and changed the opacity if needed.

After the texture was done, I then altered the pictures how I felt necessary.
For this picture I used a black and white filter as I thought it worked better than in colour.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0oztts-DI - The tutorial I learnt this technique from.