Create old-school photographs with these Digital Tools
High-class cameras, electronic handy cams, and photo/sound editing applications were some of the digital tools that bring quality outputs to users. However, some of us were still searching for that device that will give us results similar to those cheap and old digital tools. Meaning, we don’t want something great, we’re seeking for imperfections. So if this is the case, we’ve provided some digital tools that will meet your interests.
First in line is the Hipstamatic. This is a device used to mimic an old school analog camera. With a variety of lenses, and film rolls providing virtual analog textures, Hipstamatic is a fun app that re-kindles nostalgia for those who had the opportunity to use a toy camera in their childhood. This digital tool makes a phenomenal job of replicating an analog camera’s rear side.
Hipstamatic iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past. It filters images made with the device’s camera to make them look as though they were taken with an unreliable plastic camera.
Digital typefaces are handwriting, including idiosyncratic jots or messy scrawls in dashed-off marker or childlike crayon; users may strive to capture the quirks of the hand-painted signage at ease.
IZotope Vinyl is tool is a recording software; It is said to be the ultimate lo-fi weapon that uses 64 bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and re-sampling to create authentic “vinyl” simulation, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player. Through this software, you can have complete control over the parameters of mechanical noise, electrical noise, dust, scratch, warp, or even the record player year.
The Geocities-izer is a tool designed to make any web site look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996. This tool instantly reworks any slick contemporary site into a jarring mess of loud colors and pointless animation reminiscent of an earlier and more individualized version of the Internet.
Users can also unperfect their images with the use of Holgamods. Holgamods cut down extreme-angle light reflecting into the lens and therefore reduces hardcore sun-flaring which results to nice effects.
Lensbaby is said to be the “hybrid love children of an old-fashioned bellows camera and an up-tight tilt-shift lens, producing photographs with the same soft, roughed-up look produced by a Holga.” The Lensbaby mounts on your camera in the same way as your other camera lenses. This tool allows you to control what is in focus in your photographs from left to right as well as back to front.
Silver Efex Pro, from Nik Software, is probably the most powerful tool for creating professional quality black and white images from your photographs.
The Vintage Video Maker (iPhone) is an application that makes any of your iPhone videos look like authentic old school movie from the 20′s, or like a groovy home video from the 60′s.
And the last digital tool in our list would be the Poladroid. Poladroid is a software that lets you easily create “high-resolution Polaroid-like pictures from your digital photos.”
