Left: Original | Center: Photoshop | Right: Aperture
Yesterday, I came across a great tutorial called Curvy Cross Processing by Mark Fleming, on using Photoshop’s s-curve to approximate a cross-process look for digital images. Reading my way through Mark’s curves-only tutorial, it became clear that I could probably replicate his approach using Aperture’s levels tool. Since Aperture’s initial release people have been clamoring for a xprocess adjustment block or plugin and I wanted to see if I could get a pretty good xprocess look using levels combined with a little contrast and A2’s new Vignette tool (which rocks!).
Above are two example images. On the left is the original image, in the center the Photoshop image and on the right the Aperture image. The altered images are pretty similar. The photoshop image is slightly punchier. Further along in the primer I’ll get in to the differences.
