Method One
1. Crop it square. Holgas have square negatives, like many other medium format cameras. Use the crop tool, make sure you don’t have any sizes entered and hold shift to keep it perfectly square.
2. Use Filter > Distort > Lens Correction to darken the edges. Under where it says Vignette, drag the darken/lighten slider almost all the way to the left. Now pull the midpoint slider just a little to the right. Don’t worry about copying my numbers exactly, just make sure yours looks good.
3. Copy your Background layer and rename it Sharpen. Use Filter > Other > High Pass… at a low value (I used 2.2) to sharpen it up a little bit, set the layer blending mode to Hard Light and the opacity to 20%.
4. Copy your Background layer again, drag this one above the Sharpen layer and name the new copy Blur. Use Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur… at a fairly low value (I used 3.0) to get the image nice and fuzzy. Set the layer mode of this layer to Overlay and the opacity to 60%.
5. Create a Curves adjustment layer. Create an S in the line (see the screenshot) to give the picture a good amount of contrast.
6. Select the layer mask for the Curves layer and use a big brush with 0 hardness and low flow (0 – 20) to paint black on most of the middle part of the picture. You’re basically just enhancing the vignetting with this, so you want a little left around the edges.
7. Since most people usually use black & white film with these cameras for ease of home developing, I usually use a Black & White adjustment layer to complete the effect.
Method Two
1. If you have retouched the image and made density corrections, press crtl-shift-alt-E to make a merged copy of the image. If you are working from the original image, press crtl-J.
2. Now go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Apply the filter with a 5px radius.
3. Add a layer mask and apply a Radial Gradient with white set as your foreground colour. I usually apply this over a face in the photo. If there are no people then just apply it in a random place on the image.
4. Now press crtl-shift-alt-E to create a new merged copy of all the layers. Go to the Layer Style palette and tick Gradient Overlay. Use the following settings: Blend mode to Multiply | Opacity: 100% | Reverse ticked | Style: Radial | Angle 90 | Scale 100%
5. Create Solid Color Fill adjustment layer. Use black as the color and set the blend mode to colour and the opacity to 15%.
6. Create another adjustment layer on top of the color fill layer, this time the photo filter. Use Warming Filter (81), with the density set at 55%. Make sure the preserve luminosity box is ticked.
By using adjustment layers and layer styles, you can go through your layers and adjust the effect to suit the image that you are working with. Here's the final image:
sources:
http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-how-to-fake-a-holga-photograph/
http://www.allykatdesign.com/2009/12/07/holga-effect-tutorial/
http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-how-to-fake-a-holga-photograph/
http://www.allykatdesign.com/2009/12/07/holga-effect-tutorial/
