VINTAGE TONE PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

One of the highly requested blog post is this particular tutorial. I have been receiving so many questions (and *ahem* compliments) about the tone that I am applying for the pictures on the blog and Instagram, but truth be told, I am not 100% satisfied with my works because my blog concentrated on restaurant reviews and each restaurant has different setting and lighting situation and for some reasons, what I had in mind about the pictures can't always be translated as how I wanted them to be, I can't always shoot with natural daylight because some restaurants don't even have the sunlight access. Aside from that, I am still having so much fun tho!

So many of you ask me how to create a Vintage tone on Photoshop. I love creating filters using Photoshop and I have almost one hundred color settings in my drive. I can't help not making more because it's almost like a challenge and on top of all, I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN! The downside is that at some cases, it's like another challenge to actually set my heart on the filter that I REALLY wanted on a single photo because I could be loving 3-4 post-filtered ones! Anyway, here I am showing you the most simple one, but the most simple doesn't mean the bad ones. I've been using this tone setting a lot!

Hey it's Chinese New Year and I am thinking about doing something good, the least I can do (online) is to teach you guys this tutorial. Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year bitches!

I am using this picture that I took at Publik Markette and I am going to transform the photo from this...

to this!

ENOUGH YAKKING, LET'S GET STARTED!
For me, Vintage tone means something classic, a bit old-school but on top of that, dreamy with that beautiful sense of warmth and cool and I am trying to translate this using my style and I believe that each person has their own style, but I do hope you'll love this tutorial, changes are always easy to make and you can always set everything depending on your standard.

1. I feel like certain areas of my photo is quite dark, so I am pushing the brightness and contrast up! I set the brightness to (+20) and contrast (+15), and to get that old photo look, I desaturate the photo to (-30).

After brightness (+20), contrast (+15) and desaturate (-30)

2. Create a new fill layer and type in the number "B2B2B2" in the box, then set the blending mode to "Hard Light" and set the opacity to "30%". This to create that soft misty faded look. I honestly starting to feel and lovin that vintage faded look. If you're satisfied enough, you can stop here :p.

3. Create a new level layer and adjust the numbers to your settings. I only adjust the settings for the RGB, Red and Blue. After this, your photo will turn very blue and purple-ish, but don't worry you're on the right track!

4. Create a new fill layer and type in the number "A25DA1" in the box, you'll have a layer of purple-pinkish color fill and change the blending mode to 20% and set the opacity to "20". Again, your photo will appear purple-ish and slightly faded.

5. Create a new level layer and adjust the numbers to your settings. I only adjust the settings for the RGB for contrast and Blue for the tonal setting. This following step will transform your photo to have this warmer undertone: yellow with the touch of green.

6. Create a new fill layer and type in the number "575245" in the box, this will create a greyish tone with a touch of brown (for some reasons didn't show up on the screen), set the blending mode to "Soft Light" and set the opacity to "40%".

7. This is the final touch! Create a new fill layer and type in the number "2F4660" in the box to create this blue color fill, set the blending mode to "Lighten" and set the opacity to "60%", this will make the shadow area layered by the moody blue color and added that extra magic touch!

I finished everything by managing all the setting in one group (drag the whole thing into the group) to make the overall opacity setting much much easier.

Here are some of the sample photos that I edited using this vintage tone, but I didn't always set the opacity to 100% because each picture has different amount of lighting, shadows and highlights, but it obviously works better on the daylight!

Opacity 80%

Opacity 50%

Opacity 70%

Opacity 65%

Opacity 80%

Opacity 50%

Opacity 80%

Opacity 70%

Opacity 75%

Opacity 80%

Opacity 60%. I love the tone for portraits!

Opacity 90%

Opacity 100%

Gosh I miss Sydney lights like A LOT! I barely put any effort to shoot </3

Remember, the key is basically play around with the settings! Exploring is a part of experimenting and trust me if you're into editing, this is so much fun, and you could probably find your soul and style ;).

GOOD LUCK AND THANKS FOR READING! If you're satisfied with my tone, show me because it's exciting and I am very happy knowing people are using my tone to edit their pictures. I don't need you to credit me or what, but if you can show me your works (by emailing or tagging me on Instagram), that would be very nice of you guys :).

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Pizza E Birra, Plaza Indonesia Extention.

Hi my lovely readers, I just want to say thank you so much for your supports on my new segment on this blog "Culinary Journal". I received so much love from Facebook, Twitter and emails who supports me and also have the same idea of making food our new journal and it's just never ending. I'm going to wonder how someone doesn't have the love for food, sometime,s even when my sister said she's on a diet, I believe that's just a denial of her love for food.

Yesterday, me and my friends went to Plaza Indonesia to have our dinner, but sometimes, the very common issue is that it's sometimes very hard to decide where we're having the dinner at (and I believe it happened to everyone of you LOL), so we decided to go eating at Pizza E Birra which located at the Plaza Indonesia Extention, 5th fl. It's a little late to put a review of this restaurant since it's been there for yeaaaars, but you know what they say, it's better late than never :p.

I've been here a couple of times and I must say they serve very great food, especially the pizzas! They have a lot of variants of pizzas, starting from meats, spicy ones to the sweet ones, yeas with oreo, chocolate and a lot more, you need to visit this restaurant to try them all just can't get enough. You can also visit the other outlets of this restaurant at Setiabudi Building and Central Park.

FYI, Pizza E Birra is also another great invention from the culinary master, Ismaya Group. Ismaya oh Ismaya, keep on satisfying our neverending lust for food with your top creations.

I'm going to take you first to my "on the way" journey. Fasten your seat belts. This is also going to answer questions I've been receiving through emails and comments.

Route: Glodok - Plaza Indonesia

I received tons of questions on how I created tones for my photos and how do I take photos? Okay, the second question is probably the hardest, I don't know but I just love to play around with my camera, snap this snap that, I am not a thinker when it comes to shooting, I always shoot what I see is beautiful, I sometimes don't stick to the metering, I can have over-exposured or under-exposured pictures but I think they're beautiful so I just love it, it always starts with the inside, when you're happy with your results and fortunately you have people who share the same love for what you've done, that's great, but if not, stick with your own style and tone :).

I am currently more into vintage and desaturated tones, there will always be deliberation or pros and cons on what you're doing, people will always have things to say: "Why would he desaturate photos when the original color is beautiful? What was he thinking?", "I love your tones!". These two are probably what you're going to hear or read, but it's always going to be back to your own state and idea, if you love what you're doing, do it, never be afraid of being creative.

Just like this blog, I always have my way of capturing food and even though sometimes I created vintage tones for food which I sometimes believe the original color is beautiful, but I like what I'm doing and fortunately for me, my readers support me and I never experience an extreme contrast comments for what I'm doing and I respect people for that, but if they have negative or critics to point out, why not, I would love to hear that, no hard feelings of course, critics build, but never change who you are :).

I'm going to take you to see the little part of the interior of this restaurant, I love the design :).

I love their idea of applying messy woods for the walls decoration, it's somehow just makes everything looks alright and beautiful.

 Vintage alert! Love.

RETRO! Look at the illustration they're using for the food utensils wrap, it's like vintage comics, FYI, inside you'll find spoon, fork, tissues, and depends on the food, you'll also find knife.

Let's surf what we got yesterday night! They're awesome.

Meat Me in Heaven

IDR 85.000 (before tax)

This is the large round of pizza, the large round is divided to 8 slices. From the title itself, it's obvious that the pizza's going to be filled with tons of delicious meats (beef) as topping and it's indeed delicious! I have always loved the nice smell of baked meats, mixed with the smell of "fresh from the oven" baked pizza dough and smell of melted Mozarella cheese! Yumster!

Beef Lasagna
IDR 65.000 (before tax)
Hands down! One of the best lasagna I've ever tasted, the portion is quite large with delicious cream and minced beef (ala bolognaise). I just love the fact that even though the cream is cheesy, but the taste is not overrated and dominating the whole dish, works well with the other elements of the dish. Obviously must try!

Chicken and Cream with additional spaghetti.
IDR. 55.000 (chicken and cream) + 15.000 (spaghetti) -- (before tax)
This dish is originally on the menu to be only the chicken and cream, but I guess a little touch of pasta (spaghetti) will be nice, so there it is, my beautiful dish which I happen to love so much! This is also must try, I love how the chicken is cooked, it's very well seasons, and the cream is just beyond delicious. I'm only hoping that maybe if there's a glimpse of spinach inside, it's going to be even wonderful, but it's so close to becoming chicken and spinach spaghetti. Try this friends, it's a nice one :).

Strawberry Sparkling Soda
IDR 29.000 (before tax)
Fresh, it's not very sweet, not very sour. Perfect for the night :).

Conclusion: need to try! You're going to love it! I once during my last visit (months ago), I ordered the meat ball aglio olio spaghetti, it's also nice.

Pizza E Birra

Plaza Indonesia 5th Fl.

Jalan MH Thamrin Kac, 28-30

Ph: 021-2992 3907

Tribeca Park at Central Park Jakarta

Setiabudi Building.

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