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Simulating film colors Anonymous
Is it even possible to simulate film colors in photoshop?

For example color in No Country of Old Men was just awesome. I'd like to try reproduce the look somehow, but I've failed so far :(

Any ideas?
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>> Anonymous
Practice.
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
adjustment curve after adjustment curve.
>> Anonymous
Mmmm. Puffy nipples.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
Kawl it.

Warm white balance is most of it. To get the sky looking like that, it's actually a little desaturated, and there might be some hue adjustments done on it. Play with hue masks. You'd be surprised how much work is done on the color of these films. If you don't get it right the first time, don't get discouraged, these people are more professional than all of us put together.
>> Anonymous
I thought the same thing after I saw "The Island" directed by Michael Bay. The colors in that film were fucking awesome.

Turns out a lot of movies (and even tv shows) have someone named a colorist in the credits, and it's their job to go back and digitally alter the colors. Aside from that, I imagine that a lot of modern films use polarizers while shooting (someone feel free to correct me on this).
>> Anonymous
Note, I've never tried this myself but I've heard some good things if used sparingly:

http://www.unfocusedbrain.com/projects/match_color/

It's meant to map images to colours in paintings, but I could see a similar mapping to another photographic image, in this case a film still.
>> Anonymous
pick up an american cinematographer or an ICG. pick up some test rolls of motion picture stock, and a variety of filters.
>> eku !8cibvLQ11s
CSI Miami has some pretty surreal colors. If only I could imitate those on Lightroom...
>> beethy !HJGkSBB3Ao
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not exactly the same (due to different kind of image)
but
hue saturation
curves
color balance

that's all.

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>> Anonymous
you shoopan so well, ah ^______________________^
>> Warren !WSxruxpIJs
A quick way to get some great film looks is to just use some of the presets in Capture One, which is a raw-processing software. Past that, learn color theory, pay attention, and experiment.
>> Anonymous
>>142374
SUNSET FILTER
and you're done.