Mrs. Caramel, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 24, Art Gallery/Museums
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Engineer
Engagement Date: January 8, 2007
Wedding Date: October 6, 2007
Venue: a beautiful church and hotel reception
About Me: I love dancing, singing, eating out, eating in, surfing on the net, and brainstorming fantastic ideas. I also love cats, coffee, and know every quote written on Sex & the City. I'm known to laugh really loud and have really crazy hand gestures while I talk. My fiance writes songs and I take pictures. What else? We're just a crazy young couple in love, trying to make a fabulous wedding!
A Vintage Look
April 28th, 2008 @ 8:27 am by Mrs. Caramel
Mr. Caramel and I contemplated buying the digital proofs of our wedding pictures, and I’m so glad we decided to buy them! If you’re in the same boat and wondering if you should ever purchase the digital proofs, I really suggest you do it. You can store the digital files and wait to print them later on. It turns out that there are so many more pictures that we had never seen and I liked some of them just as much as the ones our photographer had picked for our website.
I started to google ways to photoshop the digital images and I was able to find a few helpful websites to get that vintage look that’s really popular now. It’s really easy to follow the steps and you can get beautiful effects! I think I prefer that darker vintage look, just to contrast the prints I already have from my photographer.
Does anyone else have any easy-to-follow websites for photoshopping digital proofs?
Some examples:
9 Responses to “A Vintage Look”
Did you have to buy the full version of Photoshop to do those?
You can now download a FREE version from the Adobe website.
I think this is the best way to do it 
Just make sure you don’t represent your altered photos as the being from the wedding photographer. You might confuse people if they think what you have done is representative of the original photographers work.
I am 100% with Photo guy.
You may want to double check with you photographer before you alter the photographs. Some do not mind but some will and you don’t want to get into any sort of legal snafu if you aren’t permitted to! Typically with the digital proofs you get Reproduction Rights and that doesn’t include photo manipulation.
If your photographer OKs it (and if not ask them if they can edit the pictures you want to have more of a vintage look! it may be free or not too terribly expensive if there is only a few you would like altered) I do NOT suggest the new free Adobe. Any images per their TOS agreement they retain the rights to and can use them for promotional work without credit to the photographer and that could just get ugly. Either use one of the full versions of Photoshop, or Paint Shop Pro and I even really like Google’s Picasa! It’s a free pogram and very easy to use!
Just wanted to chime in and saw the others posts as well - so not trying to overkill but it is extremely important to talk to your photographer and look at your contract before doing any alterations to your photos. Reproduction rights (as given to brides) generally do not allow for photo manipulation such as running actions, etc. Your pictures are beautiful. See Erica, Moore and Hanguarder.
I just want to make sure that everyone reading is aware of the potential legal liability in doing this.
You’ve got some great post processing there! These days that’s one thing to consider when you choose a photographer, do you like how they process their images?
Do you like bright poppy colors? or muted sepias and texture overlays? Is that what they deliver on the disc? It may not be, you may have to order products to get those special edits (and it’s tough to argue with that since getting paid for ones work is important… but knowing what to expect is important too!).
I tell my clients that the work after the shoot is 2/3 of the work and 1/3 of the creativity (If I shoot for 8 hours, you can bet I’m doing edit and design work for 16). And in my case I do deliver those basic creative edits on the disc if they purchase it.
I second (or third?) the recommendation to talk to your photographer if you want some special edits on your disc or emailed or FTPd to you later, they may be able to do what you want in a matter of minutes with professional software that will return the best possible results.
