Emulating variable color film stock colorization effects

[Synthetik]

It seems like a big trend right now is emulating various old color film stock 'looks' in digital photos.  All of the old color film technology has characteristic distortion of the color tonality of a photograph. There are articles describing how to do individual tone curve adjustments in digital photo manipulation programs to the 3 color channels of a digital image to emulate certain film stock looks.

You can do something similar pretty easily in Studio Artist if you like these kinds of effects.  I've supplied a simple MSG preset below that runs a nonlinear bias and gain tone adjustment processor on each of the 3 color channels individually. You can either adjust the individual MSG bias and gain processor controls in the MSG Advanced editor to generate custom colorization effects.  Or you can use the Evolution Editor to mutate variations without getting under the hood of the MSG preset or having any conception of how it works.

For those of you interested in building your own MSG presets from scratch, this is a very simple one that might be useful to examine in depth to understand how it was constructed and works.

3Chan BiasGainMap.zip

[Thorrific]

Thanks John!

[Synthetik]

Here's a link to a discussion on Synthetik Lomography effects that utilize the above simple MSG preset in the context of emulating lomography analog photography effects within Studio Artist. The discussion includes a small folder of example PASeq presets to help get you get started thinking about how to build these kinds of processing effects.