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Create Your Own Retro Analog Effect

The document provides instructions for creating a retro analog effect in Adobe Photoshop. It involves adjusting the curves of the red, green, and blue channels to alter tones. Adding layers set to soft light at 20% for magenta and 70% for red light leaks. It also includes adding a gaussian blur, layer mask, black stroke vignette, and noise to complete the retro effect.

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Create Your Own Retro Analog Effect

The document provides instructions for creating a retro analog effect in Adobe Photoshop. It involves adjusting the curves of the red, green, and blue channels to alter tones. Adding layers set to soft light at 20% for magenta and 70% for red light leaks. It also includes adding a gaussian blur, layer mask, black stroke vignette, and noise to complete the retro effect.

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Create your own retro analog effect

Once you have your photograph of choice, fire up Adobe Photoshop. This particular image I’ve
sourced from ThinkStock.

Add a Curves adjustment layer to begin altering the tones of the image. Using an adjustment
layer as opposed to the menu command gives you the ability to go back and tweak the settings,
or remove them altogether.
Change the drop down menu to the Red channel and begin manipulating the curves. Tweak the
line into an S shaped bend.

Move onto the Green channel, this time increase the green midtones by creating a large flowing
bend in the line.
In the Blue channel, add both a slight S shaped bend and move the start and end points above and
below the original curves line.

Fill a new layer with magenta, then change the blending mode to Soft Light. Reduce the opacity
of the layer to around 20% to tone down the effect.
Press CMD+A to Select All, then go to Edit > Copy Merged (CMD+Shift+A). Paste this
duplicate on a new layer, then add a Gaussian Blur. Add a Layer Mask to the blur layer and erase
the blurring from the main subjects, leaving spots of blurring creeping in from the edges and in
the background.

Dab spots of red using a large soft brush on a new layer. Change the blending mode of this layer
to Linear Dodge to create a series of light leaks. Reduce the opacity to around 70%.
Select All, then right click the document and select Stroke. Add a 100px black stroke to the
inside of the canvas.

Blur the stroke with maximum settings using the Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur option to form a
vignette. Set this layer to Soft Light at 70%.
Dab a large spot of white in the centre of the canvas to highlight the main subjects. Change this
to Soft Light at 100%.

Fill a new layer with black and add some noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise). Give the noise
layer a slight Gaussian Blur to take the edge off the noise particles, then change the blending
mode to Screen at 15%.

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