Lord of the Rings effects?

[M_Jackson]

Quite a few movies have been converting a filmed image into final products that have a color shift, grain, and usually a higher contrast. Much of Lord of the Rings has a blue cast, especially in the darker scenes. Saving Private Ryan had a gritty, contrasty, sepia tone throughout.

I can usually recreate the effects, but I was curious if there is a site that spells out exactly how they are doing the post production effects?

Thanks in advance,
M. Jackson

[Lyla]

the effect is achieved using bleach bypass processing which is essentially skipping the bleaching stage when processing the film . there are a whole bunch of plugins available for photoshop which simulate the effect

more info on the process here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_bypass

plugin available here

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...pass-PRO.shtml

cheers - hope this helps!

[M_Jackson]

Yes, that's it. It's kinda funny my examples were the exact ones they used as examples for the effect. Thanks for the link.
M. Jackson

[M_Jackson]

I just proecessed a few images and it is a very nice filter. Interestingly, the NIK Color Efexs Pro 2.0 has an Old Photo Color filter that does a very similar effect.

M. Jackson