Final image given the Lomo make over.

The original photo taken with a Canon Sure Shot.

It’s funny, whenever I’m looking for something, a tutorial, effect, something I remember from the good old days of E6 and C41 film, I find a way to stumble across it, almost blindly, but as if it were meant to be. For quite some time now, I’ve been wondering how best to digitally replicate the effect of processing E6 film as C41 negatives. I certainly could have found this online at any time, I’m sure, by searching for these keywords, however, being a busy person who spends more time behind the lens and less time online, I just never got around to doing the search. Yet, I managed, via twitter, to stumble across exactly what I was looking for. I found this tutorial, How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography from the website Digital Photography School. The thing is, though, that this tutorial isn’t so new, it’s been out there since the end of 2007, but still, it was just the sort of thing I was looking for, and just stumbled across.

You’ll see in the top photo to the right the finished effect, below that, the original, untouched, downloaded image. Now, as this was my first go at this, I used any old photo I had at hand, in this case, it was a photo I took with a Canon Sure Shot (not my big fancy professional Nikon). However, it should be easy to see the difference between the original, and the one I created following the tutorial.

Like I said, I may not have choosen the right image, and I could have played around with it a bit more, but I’m pretty impressed with the results and am so happy to have read and done the tutorial.

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