Comments on: The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light...

The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light...

KokuRyu — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:32:25 -0800

Use this ancient photo generator (in JP, but a cinch to use) to give your photos that certain Edo look. Via C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

By: cyphill

cyphill — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:31:11 -0800

That is super awesome.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:33:10 -0800

Great find! It reminds me how excited I was the first time I found Photoshop's "Dust & Scratches" filter, followed immediately by disappointment that it didn't add dust and scratches.

By: localhuman

localhuman — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:35:06 -0800

I dis-agree with cyphill. This isn't super awesome. It is beyond the realm of awesomeness al-together. A better place. I hope to meet you (pl) there at some time.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:42:55 -0800

Thanks heaps, now I can invent some ancestry. I now have a lovely image of great grandfather mattoxic holding what looks to be a very early prototype Asus eee

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:49:40 -0800

neat-o.

By: billyfleetwood

billyfleetwood — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:01:21 -0800

this is great. surely someone here knows how they're doing it? Cause I want one that does 1972

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:05:48 -0800

Getting nunchucks and camera.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:12:17 -0800

Daguerreoriffic.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:02 -0800

This is just fantastic. I've already turned some of my mediocre temple/gate shots into awesome-looking classic imagery.

By: gen

gen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:47:04 -0800

Yep, this is a very famous site in Japan. In fact it has over 1000 bookmarks at Hatena Bookmarks, (the del.icio.us of Japan.)

By: adamt

adamt — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:01 -0800

Hmm... it seems to be the same mask every time. The single images look great by themselves but a few together look, well, faked. But well... it's still crazy fun. Picture of my daughter and I on the train the other day now looks like we were going somewhere awesome and exotic and not just to the mall.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:22:56 -0800

Neat. I'd love to see similar services for various effects, if anyone knows of any.

By: divabat

divabat — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:42:38 -0800

so cool!

By: ORthey

ORthey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:49:24 -0800

SO cool.

By: squasha

squasha — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:07:44 -0800

I couldn't resist Edo-fying a very youthful picture of myself under a tattoo artist's needle. Now it looks like it feels: part of my ancient history.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:44:00 -0800

For some similar filters, check out the online (and IMO better than the free Photoshop recently rolled out) Picnik. This is a cool post, but on Picnik you have a lot more control about what happens to your photo.

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:46:18 -0800

I sell software (self-links follow) that simulates traditional chemical photographic processes. The Andy plug-in simulates light being transmitted through a negative and onto photographic paper, with the results varying depending on chemicals and temperatures. The plug-in is in constant use by many professional photographers as it eliminates the digital look of modern cameras. The fading can be simulated with the TonyREAL plug-in by remapping the full tonal range of an image to the compressed range of old print; it can simulate the appearance of any monochrome sample you feed it. (The deep black level of the demo images is not an inevitable result.) I don't however, add dust and scratches... that'd be another plug-in.

By: noble_rot

noble_rot — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:04:43 -0800

adamt is right. It would be much better if the scratches and speckle were inserted randomly. Instead they are in the same place every time, making it look mad cheesy if you see more than a couple of them.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:26:05 -0800

Great find! It reminds me how excited I was the first time I found Photoshop's "Dust & Scratches" filter, followed immediately by disappointment that it didn't add dust and scratches. It's not like it would be hard to manually add dust and scratches to an image in photoshop...

By: kcds

kcds — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:46 -0800

billyfleetwood - you can fake the 1972 look to some extent with "fake cross processing". Would love to see your results!

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:38:57 -0800

From the via link: Is MeFi being blocked in Thailand? seanmpuckett: the Andy filter sounds pretty cool, but can it reproduce the smells from the darkroom? Because thats what I really miss.

By: bettafish

bettafish — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:04:31 -0800

For someone who can read Japanese - how does it work, exactly? I tried uploading a file and a URL and both times got "403 forbidden" as a result. Sadface!

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:14:37 -0800

The site seems to be borked.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:16:46 -0800

borked : (

By: thebellafonte

thebellafonte — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:23:01 -0800

no worky for me neither.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:29:29 -0800

403 forbidden.

By: gallois

gallois — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:29:41 -0800

works for me.

By: benfitts

benfitts — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:44:07 -0800

Didn't work for me either? Maybe someone who can read Japanese can let us know. Maybe they only accept certain file types or something and we're trying to upload the wrong kind of files?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:26:51 -0800

Files must be Fuji.

By: zzazazz

zzazazz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:47:51 -0800

This is damn fun.

By: zzazazz

zzazazz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:48:26 -0800

Quick, someone create a Flickr group.

By: billyfleetwood

billyfleetwood — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:02:06 -0800

billyfleetwood - you can fake the 1972 look to some extent with "fake cross processing". Would love to see your results! I'll check out Your Plugins seanmpuckett as well. A friend of mine also suggested Exposure I'm more curious as to how the web based simple version works. In my head I imagine that page with a simple dropdown menu...1982, 1972, 1962, 1952, etc... Maybe an askme is in order.

By: billyfleetwood

billyfleetwood — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:17:45 -0800

> For some similar filters, check out the online (and IMO better than the free Photoshop recently rolled out) Picnik. This is a cool post, but on Picnik you have a lot more control about what happens to your photo. I missed that link. that's it exactly.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:22:25 -0800

The site is working for me again. I wonder if the site temporarily blocks IP addresses after a certain amount of bandwidth has been exceeded.

By: ReiToei

ReiToei — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:36:19 -0800

Oh wow... that's cool!

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:14:53 -0800

Yo, OP. Maybe consider adding "japan" or "japanese" or something similar to the tags? I just searched for this for like twenty minutes before finally just going back page after page to find it. Thanks!