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Belated Birthday Lunch & How To Replicate Film

On Saturday we visited Tom’s mom and her husband for a little belated birthday gathering, and she spoiled us with some fabulous vegan food and deserts (cinnamon infused cherry cobbler, oh my gosh) and we spent all day talking about life and visiting. (We always spend several hours over there talking before realizing that it’s been as long as it has.) And aside from spilling water on my desk and spending fifteen minutes airing out my wallet, keyboard, and random papers with a hair dryer- my Sunday was fairly uneventful, but in a good way. It left me feeling rested and excited to start the work week! I hope yours was just as delightful.

On a different note, many of you have been emailing me asking me if it’s possible to “truly replicate” the look of film using the Reminisce action set, and so I thought I would process these photos to kind of show you the potential. Whether your film habit is too expensive, conflicts with your vegan values, or you just want to experiment- it’s definitely possible. While every type of film is different, and there are lots of different types of looks you may want to accomplish, it is possible to get fairly close to so many using what is provided in the set. I tried to keep it simple for this example and used only “Sage” (the “Reminisce” layer was between 80-100 opacity for each photo), sometimes with “Reminisce” added on top. After that I dropped this handy film style dust & particles layer [download full res] on top (set it to screen, 50-80% opacity) and voilà, film craving satisfied. Enjoy!

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16 Comments

  • Reply
    Sara
    4 Aug 2012 at 4:24 pm

    The download link as been updated! =)

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      Katheryn
      9 Aug 2012 at 2:10 am

      Thank you! (:

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    Katheryn
    4 Aug 2012 at 3:43 pm

    You really don’t know how to respond to your comments :\

    • Reply
      Sara
      4 Aug 2012 at 3:58 pm

      Hi Katheryn,

      I’ve been emailing it to each commenter and I must have missed you. Sorry about that. If ever you leave a comment and it doesn’t get to me, please don’t hesitate to email me instead!

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    Ana Jonessy
    25 Jul 2012 at 8:12 am

    Hi Sara..! Thank you for sharing this – I’d love to get the texture if you don’t mind (the link expired).

    Also, I just discovered your website a couple of weeks ago. So much love pouring already! x

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    Katheryn
    18 Jul 2012 at 3:23 pm

    The link expired 🙁 Re upload I’m dying to use it, simply beautiful. Thanks <3

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    Dania
    12 Jul 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Hi Sara! This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I’m eager to try. But your download link has expired. Please re-upload? Thank you. 🙂

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    Vickie
    18 Jan 2012 at 5:53 am

    the food (& the photos) look wonderful

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    Andrea
    17 Jan 2012 at 10:43 pm

    These are AMAZING!!! You convinced (actually you didn’t have to do much, cause these actions were on my wishlist since you released them) and now I’m having a lot of fun transforming my digital into film!!! 😀
    May I ask you, did you shoot these photos RAW or JPEG??
    Thank you <33

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      Sara
      4 Aug 2012 at 4:05 pm

      Thank you so much, and I shot these in JPEG!

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    Nik
    17 Jan 2012 at 9:19 am

    Nice photos! I’m looking forward for your new actions! Please release soon and putting some bundle discount with other sets 😀

  • Reply
    rose jp
    17 Jan 2012 at 2:41 am

    sara I do not know anything about pictures, but I love seeing your pictures are beautiful

    kisses rose jp

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    Jade Sheldon
    16 Jan 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Just lovely. And man, I need some cherry cobbler, like, right this very second.

  • Reply
    catarina
    16 Jan 2012 at 4:33 pm

    and the result is definitely amazing!

    • Reply
      Sara
      16 Jan 2012 at 5:01 pm

      Thanks so much, Catarina!

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