Wednesday, 28 November 2012

JC: Photoshop VCR effect development


- First, I created 3 extra layers for the red, green and blue layers of the image. The layer type for these was changed to 'Exclusion'.
- Another two background copies were created for the TV lines effect, which was 'Soft Light', and one more for colour correction 'Luminosity'.

I then created a fill layer which was half light grey and half white. By applying a gaussian blur of two pixels, and adding some noise, this created the TV line effect.


To create separate colour layers, I selected each one, and set the output level for each colour to 0 corresponding to what colour I wanted to create, e.g.: Red layer - Red: 100, Green: 0, Blue: 0, Blue Layer - Red: 0, Green: 0, Blue: 100.

I then moved the red and green layers slightly left and right in order to create the damaged tape effect.


Lastly, I created some distortions to further imitate the notion of damaged VCR tape. This included warped sections of the image and sections with altered colour. I did this by using the select tool on the background copy and giving the selected section a gaussian blur and added noise.
For the distortion I used the rectangle tool and made the selected shape a light grey colour. I then changed this shape layer to soft light and also added gaussian blur and noise.
For some other images I used different layer types such as 'Saturation' and 'Overlay', which gave different results, such as drained colour, and more vivid, defined sections of noise.

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