How To Create a Toy Camera Effect

How To Create a Toy Camera Effect

In this special step-by-step tutorial Mark Galer shows you how to recreate a 'toy camera' look in Photoshop Lightroom.

In this project we’ll show you how to create a preset that you can easily apply to a range of Raw images. The preset can also be applied to JPEG images, though since JPEG images have already been processed once (by the camera), you may find the effect causes excessive tonal banding.

The resource image used in this project was captured with a Sony NEX-7 24 megapixel camera but has been resized and compressed to six megapixels, courtesy of the new lossy compression option in Photoshop Lightroom 4 and Adobe Camera Raw 7. Let the grunge begin!

This story was first published in the Australian Photography + Digital January 2013 issue.

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