Ok gurus - this is kind of one of those annoying 'how do you do that' thread, but really I'm hoping for more of an open discussion about the technique as well as learning how things are done. Trying to broaden skills without saying, "Spoon-feed me the knowledge". 
You lot know me well enough by now, anyway...stop rambling P~, yeah sure...
This app claims to make these lovely effects on images for a mere £2.99 (pennies, I tells ya!) - I love the look of the last three examples given - but it would be cool to learn how to do that to my own RAW images in Photoshop.
My guess is just good knowledge of using the levels and exposure, but I think I'm being too much of a simpleton.
P~
http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/photo-editing/rain-with-photoshop-in-under-a-minute.16688.html
and then make some colorchanges
The effect in that tutorial looks pretty turd, actually mate. It's the ageing/colour effects that I think horn me up the most about the original link.
Originally posted by Phantom
The effect in that tutorial looks pretty turd, actually mate. It's the ageing/colour effects that I think horn me up the most about the original link.
Use some of these in combination with the rain eefect:
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/40-vintage-and-retro-photoshop-actions
In the raw editor, your saturation + clarity settings are your friend for most of the aging/color effects.
Then once in PS, lens corrections, to add vignette.
Ok, started playing - no vignette added...just trying to create tonal similarities :
PRE :
POST :
Thoughts so far RDS mate?
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I think that's a good start - then it's just a matter of dirtying it up.
A vignette, some gaussian noise, maybe an overlay layer or color wash (hue/saturation colorize on a new layer with varying opacity)... have fun with it.
I feel somewhat less than useless knowing that I could still do that if my life depended on it.
What a weird scenario that would be.
You can do the vignetting in PS's raw tool as well.
It's a tough effect to get to look right, the vignette. So easy to be heavy-handed or look obviously post-processed.