{"id":672,"date":"2011-03-24T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=672"},"modified":"2011-03-24T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:05:45","slug":"1940s-color-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2011\/03\/24\/1940s-color-film\/","title":{"rendered":"1940s Color Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started with this photo. <\/p>\n

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\nI know I’ve mentioned several times that I’m working on a vintage film action for photoshop but I don’t think I ever shared why I’ve been so engrossed in it. I blame the Library of Congress! If you are not already a contact of the Library of Congress archives on flickr<\/a>, I highly recommend you become one. Every Friday they release around 50 public domain photos from the archives. They are fascinating. But this one I just fell in love with — the color, the focus, just something about it really drew me in. So I set about trying to imitate it. <\/p>\n

Now we all know that there are a thousand and one vintage recipes out there — mostly they involve upping the blue and magenta in the file. I’ve borrowed heavily from Veerle<\/a> but altered her color curves and added a few tweaks to the highlights and mid-tones. So what does it look like? Well, you’ve seen some of them on my flickr stream. Here’s a couple of samples:
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But I think you really need a before\/after shot to get the full flavor:
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Vintage-ified shot is on the left and standard processed is on the right. Cheryl<\/a> has offered to help me test this out — anyone else interested? Right now I’ve only got it working in Photoshop — I use a command {select > color range} that isn’t available in Elements so until I find a work around for that, I’m afraid it’s a Photoshop only action. I know. I’m sorry! I’m also not entirely happy with how it handles skin tones. My teenage sons thought it made people look like sick vampires. Yikes! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It started with this photo. I know I’ve mentioned several times that I’m working on a vintage film action for photoshop but I don’t think I ever shared why I’ve been so engrossed in it. I blame the Library of Congress! If you are not already a contact of the Library of Congress archives on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-aQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}