On this video tutorial Aaron Nace from Phlearn demonstrates how to take an image and give it a Polaroid-like look in Photoshop.
The days of Polaroid photography are (mostly) behind us, but a lot of people still love the look of the square framed image and this quick guide Nace shows us how to take a regular image and turn it into a vintage looking Polaroid one.
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To start with you will need a Polaroid image to be used as the background (Nace used a specific one which doesn’t seem to be around any more – you can find a million others online – just make sure that you can legally use it). You need to select the area inside the Polaroid and than create a layer mask and play with it until you have the composition just right (remember that you can unlink the mask from the original layer – just remember to re-link it later on).
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The next step is to add an adjustment look by adding a sepia tone – adding a clipping mask will only effect the layer below (i.e. the image not the Polaroid). Finally you can add a flare and even add a little bit of a Gaussian blur. If you you really want you can even add some text (and with layer style make it blend with the Polaroid).
Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009.
Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.
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