Need somebody with some photo effects knowledge

[KAO]

does anybody know if there is some program that I can use to achieve an effect similar to this:

painlessly and easily?

[KingAirDriver]

I'm not sure exactly which effects you're speaking of, but I celebrate my "inner-Nerd" with Paint.net when I create liveries for my airline in my online airline management sim. It's a free program and you can make some pretty cool stuff with it. I'm sure I only use a fraction of its potential. Excuse me while I provide examples of my Nerdiness:

and my "throwback" retro livery...

[KAO]

by effect I mean the black-and-white grainy television camera effect that is seen in every Lunar probe picture

[KingAirDriver]

I'm pretty sure there's an effect to change things to B&W in the program. Try Googling PDN (Paint.net) and the type of changes you want to make- there may be some info posted about it. Download and have fun!

[semininja]

You might also look into GIMP, which is a little more in-depth, but has a /ton/ of capability if used correctly.

It's not as hard as it might sound.

[Shpaget]

In Gimp you can go to Filters -> Noise -> RGB Noise... Play around a bit with the settings.

Then go to Colors -> Desaturate.

That's it.

In PaintNET:

Effects -> Noise

Adjustments -> Black and White

If you have Lightroom, you can add some nice grain in the Effects section of Develop

If you want to add those lines where the film was damaged (scratched or bent) you'll have to draw those lines (or get them someplace) and layer them over the image, then adjust the opacity to suit your taste.

KingAirDriver, I love the black and white livery.

Edited September 4, 2012 by Shpaget

[Ydoow]

It's a bit more involved than what you mentioned in Paint.NET, there's also some nice effects you can download that really add an old grain effect for Paint.NET

It's very possible, but more than just slapping some noise on it

[KingAirDriver]

Thanks, Shpaget.

[KAO]

I've decided to go with GIMP

does anybody here know by any chance how to apply a set of effects to an entire gif? or more specifically apply the same set of effects to every layer/frame in a gif

[semininja]

If you're talking about an animation, I think that depending how you do it, you might wind up with the same grain pattern, etc., on each frame. I'm not sure, though. I'd say if it's short enough and you have enough patience, do it frame by frame.

[KAO]

but the whole point is to not do it frame by frame

I could come up with a ridiculously detailed 117 frame gif.

that's an excellent example when you don't want to apply effects frame by frame

I'll try asking on the gimp forums

[Shpaget]

Gimp has a batch edit plugin.

Are you trying to edit the gif you got from a video?

In that case I would apply all the editing and effects to the video and recreate the gif.

[KAO]

no I'm trying to MAKE a gif

well, kinda, I merely imported an already created gif into gimp, I just want to add filters and such

gimp just breaks gifs down into separate layers(frames)

[gristar]

no I'm trying to MAKE a gif

well, kinda, I merely imported an already created gif into gimp, I just want to add filters and such

gimp just breaks gifs down into separate layers(frames)

Hi you may try online tools such as picasion.com, makeagif.com, gickr.com or photojus