photo trick : movievize your photo.

hello there. thanks for being patient with me (in other words, not bugging and pestering me to update this page with more tutorials. thank you! either that or no one is following this page and i'm just doing this syok-sendiri).

but if for some miracle that you are following this blog, i am terribly sorry. i know i havent been such an awesome info-dumper. forgive my lack of commitment. i have been lazy, i mean procrastinating, you know, taking my own sweet time scouring the Internet for more tips and tricks for you guys.

which brings me to this one particular photoshop tutorial that gets me all feeling funny inside. i just learnt this neat trick today when i came across this. so i looked around in my flickr to find a just the right photo that needs to be re-treated. i had to look far because it's been a while since i last taken any urban/street photos. i used to love doing urban/street photography but my lazyness and big-ass has gotten the best of me.

this tutorial that i found teaches how to give a cinematic effect on photographs. i followed and altered the steps a bit and i got this photo :




turned into this :



this was how i changed it. (i'm too lazy to print screen. and you guys are too manja. i hope you understand enough English to follow these simple steps)

1. open your file.
2. adjust saturation (Menu>Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation) and make the colours muted a bit by moving the saturation pointer to the left to the left
3. duplicate layer (layer>duplicate layer)
4. Add lens blur on the background copy (Filter>Blur>Lens Blur) and adjust according to your liking.
5. Still editing your background copy, select the Eraser tool from your toolbox. Make sure your master diameter is big and hardness at 0 so you'll achieve and smoother depth of field. Erase your selected point of focus.
   
6. Add a new layer (Layer>New)
7. Fill it with black. (Edit>Fill)
8. Adjust the opacity (go to your layer window, find 'opacity' at the top of the window and then move the curser to the left to the left)
9. Select 'Multiply' at your layer window (the one that says 'normal'? yeah, click that and it will open a list of technical shit. but you just need to select 'multiply') this will make your photo darker. don't fret. it's suppose to look that way.
   
10. Still editing your black layer, add some TV noise on in. (Filter>Noise>Add Noise) adjust it according to your liking.
    
11. Flatten your image (layer>flatten image)
12. Add cinemascope by adding black bars at the top and bottom of your photo (this is optional but it completes the look). first select your foreground colour to black and then select the rectangle tool at your toolbox.
    
13. taddaaaaa! you're not only a photographer, you're a cinematographer!