Post #588008 by DejaVoodoo on Thu, May 5, 2011 8:05 PM

On 2011-05-05 19:41, Sweet Daddy Tiki wrote:
this isn't going to help you with your question, but I have a question of my own: why do your pictures look like that? Why do they have rounded corners? Do you run them through some kind of nostalgia filter?

I'm hoping you like the pictures looking like that? :)

No, I didn't run them through a nostalgia filter. I just made a quick border/frame in Photoshop and aged the whole image with an LP paper sleeve graphic I made a while back that actually has a bit of film grain and some dark and light "burnt" areas built right into it.

I find that whenever something needs a yellowed, sepia-toned look, I recycle the LP paper sleeve graphic cause I'm too lazy to make something new for each project. Anyway, I'm divulging too many of my graphic design secrets. :wink:

So, there's the bottom coconut cup photo, then the white rounded corner border/frame, and on top of everything is the LP paper sleeve graphic with the layer blend mode set to "Multiply." That's why my pictures look like that.

And actually, I think I saw another post on TC that had a similar effect applied to the pictures, with the rounded corners. There's no reason why my pictures can't also have a little style to them. Who says they have to have square corners? I only added a "mood" to my pictures. I didn't retouch or airbrush their contents.

I hope this answers your question! :D