HELP! How to get CLASSIC MOVIE LASERDISC LOOK?

[jimmycobb]

Hello. I’m a Photoshop beginner and I’d like to know how to get the look you can see on the image below: It seems to be a combination of Curves, Colorization on selected areas, and some blur on the skins and background. I’ve tried with these parameters, but I can’t get the same soft pastel painting. I wonder if this technique is based on a combination of Photoshop basic parameters, or if they used a plugin to give to the image that pastel texture. That look was used massively on vhs, laserdisc and dvd covers from 90’s to starting 00’s. It was on every classic movie edition. So, if they created the sleeves so fast, they should have a standard technique. I hope your requests. Thanks. ---------------------------------------- PD: I’m Spanish. My message in English could be confuse. If you don’t understand it, tell me and I’ll re-type it.

 

[sammyandco]

Hello. I’m a Photoshop beginner and I’d like to know how to get the look you can see on the image below: View attachment 19221View attachment 19222 It seems to be a combination of Curves, Colorization on selected areas, and some blur on the skins and background. I’ve tried with these parameters, but I can’t get the same soft pastel painting. I wonder if this technique is based on a combination of Photoshop basic parameters, or if they used a plugin to give to the image that pastel texture. That look was used massively on vhs, laserdisc and dvd covers from 90’s to starting 00’s. It was on every classic movie edition. So, if they created the sleeves so fast, they should have a standard technique. I hope your requests. Thanks. ---------------------------------------- PD: I’m Spanish. My message in English could be confuse. If you don’t understand it, tell me and I’ll re-type it.

Looks very much like a airbrushed illustration, many old movie's posters were done by airbrush artists to get this effect. The picture above is merely a reference for the illustrator to use (the white streak in the hair is much much longer in the second "image" showing that it isn't a photo edit, as back then it was almost impossible to do such editing without some kind of illustration)

In other words, most kinds of advertising design such as movies and album cover's only started to become digital-only in the 90's once computer's started to have design capabilities that were relevant to professionals.

If you want this effect the only way to get it to any professional grade would be to buy a digital tablet and learn how to draw with soft brushes. Plugins or effect's wouldn't cut it imo