How to imitate the film style in later retouching? These two methods are efficient and simple

Although few people take pictures with film now, film-style photos are the eternal feelings of photographers. The nostalgic film texture is often durable and will never appear outdated.

What photos can be called film style photos?

Here are some movie photos of famous photographers Mori Youzhi and Hideaki Hamada. It can be seen that the biggest feature of film photos is a kind of "heavy feeling", which looks very retro and nostalgic. This heavy feeling is explained from the perspective of film repair:

The photo looks very transparent;

Black is immortal, white is not dazzling;

Generally, there are dark corners, which means that all four corners of the picture are dark;

Unique graininess;

Every movie has its own unique color and tone. Although most of the photos taken now are digital photos, the film style is not unattainable. For ordinary photographers, how to restore the texture of film works with only mobile phones?

In this section, two cases are used to describe how to use mobile phones to repair cinematic photography:

The software used is snapseed:

This is the 2 1 tutorial of the snapseed series.

Original film analysis: This is a photo taken by a mobile phone. The original film is very ordinary. If you want to make it into a movie style, what is the idea? Using the group of movie style pictures we just watched, the conclusion is as follows:

Transparency-the contrast in the picture below is a bit "excessive" because the right half of the picture looks "gray and dirty" and is not transparent enough.

Black is not dead, white is not dazzling-this picture is basically done, there is no large area of dead black, and there is no dazzling white, but the food part lacks details.

There are usually dark corners, that is, all four corners of the picture are dark-you need to add dark corners at the back.

Unique particles add particles.

After reading the analysis, start the operation directly.

Open snapseed- import pictures-make overall basic adjustments to the pictures:

For this photo—

(the overall darkness does not match the film brightness) to increase the overall brightness of the picture;

(overall grayer) reduce contrast;

(color is not strong enough) increase saturation;

(not heavy enough) to enhance the atmosphere;

(overexposure of white clouds) reduce highlights;

(There is no detail in the food part) Increase the shadow;

The green of trees and the blue of the sky are cool colors.

The adjustment parameters are as follows:

Screenshot, cut off the pedestrian walkway below, highlighting that it is the main body of food. The comparison before and after adjustment is as follows:

In the first case, introduce 1 a lazy way to bring out the film style. Snapseed itself has a set of film-style filters, and most of the pictures are very beautiful if applied directly.

Click on the coarse-grained film-there are many preset film filters that can be directly applied. X04 is recommended, which is suitable for most scenes:

After selecting the appropriate filter, you can also adjust the film grain and style strength of the filter separately:

Finally, except for dark corners, there is no "dark corner" function in snapseed, but there is an alternative tool "vignetting" with two options:

External brightness: refers to that the center point is unchanged (the center point can be moved), and the surrounding area becomes brighter or darker.

Internal brightness: refers to the constant surroundings, and the central point becomes brighter or darker (the central point can be moved).

In addition to the internal and external positions can be moved, the range can also be controlled at will.

The adjustment effect diagram is as follows:

Original picture:

The second method of adjusting film winding curve

Original film analysis: the characteristics of the film have been analyzed above, so I won't go into details here. To change this picture to a movie style, you need to:

Transparency-the left half of the picture looks too dark, but there are too many bright parts in the right half, which need to be adjusted separately.

Black is immortal, white is not dazzling-there is too much black on the left in the picture below, which needs to be improved.

Generally, there are dark corners, and all four corners of the picture are dark-you need to add dark corners later.

Unique particles add particles.

Import snapseed- click the curve

Enter the curve adjustment page:

RGB curve: brightness, red, green and blue curves are controlled as a whole.

Red curve: pull up is red, press down is cyan.

Green curve: green when pulled up, and magenta when pressed.

Blue curve: blue means pulling up and yellow means pressing down.

Click the brightness curve and press it in an inverted "S" shape to improve the brightness of the dark part of the photo and depress the highlights of the bright part at the same time:

Then adjust the curves of red, blue and green respectively, which is not unique and can be adjusted according to your favorite movie style:

Finish the renderings: (If you feel that there is a problem, you can adjust the saturation, atmosphere and color temperature in case 1 and then go back to "map adjustment").

Original picture:

Curve adjustment is about operation, and the principle has been explained in this paper. For details, please refer to the previous article:

Lazy people retouch, a curve brings up any ideal color |Snapseed Tutorial 5

The film style also has the same characteristics: it tends to be in the middle tone, that is, there is no large area of pure black, no large area of highlights, low color saturation, graininess, dark corners and so on. But there are many kinds of movies, such as different styles of pictures, such as retro style, fresh tone, high-grade gray, black and white tone, so for a certain movie, it also has different characteristics from other movies.

When repairing the film-style picture in the later stage, we should try various tools according to the tone of the original film and our favorite style, so that the classics can be continued.