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28 October 2006

GIMP: Lomo Effect

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The 35 mm LOMO LC-A camera employed an unusual lens which produced large amounts of distortion at the edges of the image whilst keeping the center sharp, it alos increases the contrast and colour saturation of the photos. The camera was promoted by businessmen from Austria with international gallery shows. You can see an example of Lomo like photos here, and here.
The GIMP, is a open-source software, which can be considered as an alternative to Photoshop. It has the ability to add Plug-in's and Scripts (Script-Fu). One of the scripts that I found lately has the ability to give photos taken by cameras other than Lomo LC-A a Lomographic effect.
To install the script -for Linux users only - save the file "lomo2.scm" into the following path, "/usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts", given that you have GIMP version 2.0.
Script URL: Lomo2 Script-Fu

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4 comments:

  1. lomo is soooooo 90s khalas ba2a, what next how to dance the macarena?

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  2. You're right, but remember that art has no age, and also if you go to Flickr you'll see many photographers still using the LC-A cameras.

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  3. Nice one ,,I guess my cybershot can reach this effect some how :)

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  4. Cybershot, so it is not Kodak nor Agfa Miss Kidak-Agfa !?

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