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Getting the lo-fi Holga look

Getting the lo-fi Holga look - Photoshop Tutorial

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Getting the lo-fi Holga look

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The Holga attachment that we looked at earlier, the Lensbaby lens that we looked at earlier, certain filters that you might put on a lens, all of these allow you to create a grungy beat-up low-fi toy camera look. This is a look that most people are familiar with through applications such as Instagram and Hipstamatic. Those applications simply take a normal picture and postprocess them using image editing tricks to create their toy camera looks. And there's no reason you can't do the same thing here in Photoshop. And I'm just going to show you a few little things here that allow you to create a more beat-up toy camera effect. The first thing you might do is what I'm going to do right here, and that is to crop your image to a square. Most of the low-fi looks are built around the square format, because then you look like you're working with an old box camera or any one of the old square film formats. So I'm just going to take that out to a square and then I'm going to open my image in…

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