I was playing around in photoshop today and found you could recreate the look of an old scan fairly easily. i really like the look of these pics below which are ones I took just last year but look like they came out of old naturist mags or something.
Just curious to get some feedback on these. I could start a whole thread for "imitation scans" - like 'em? I can post more. The nostalgia feel that these have is kind of "alluring" to me.....
heh, heh.....takes me way back. And I could maybe fool some people into thinking Oregon Country Fair was featured in Nude and Natural Magazine??
What you do in Photoshop is basically create a negative in layers (using "invert"), then reconstruct the positive using another layer in vivid light (or multiply, hard light, etc) blending mode. Just experiment, then post your results here. There are endless variations, including some that will look pretty psychedelic. Also, you have to add a little noise.
thanks,
klondike