Vintage Cross Processing in Photoshop

(The Photoshop video tutorial in this post is just under the introductory text below)

Vintage Cross Processing is a very popular post production technique. From editorial, to fashion, to weddings, vintage cross processing is all over the place. What you may not know is how simple it really is to do in Adobe Photoshop. In fact, teaching the entire technique takes less than 2-3 minutes and doing it on your own will take less than one.

In this tutorial we are not only going to teach you how to cross process your images in Photoshop, we are also going to briefly touch on how the cross process developing process was created in the first place. In addition, we will also talk about what exactly makes an image look like a vintage image in order to help you all understand exactly how to process an image to make it look vintage.

Cross Processing in Lightroom

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As cameras produce higher and higher quality of images, the desire for creating vintage and lo-fi looking images seems to increase as well. Regardless of why, the vintage cross processed look has become quite popular today.

In this Lightroom video tutorial, we are going to teach you how to create a vintage cross processed look without having to touch Photoshop at all. Now, while we will have more flexibility and control in Photoshop, I think you will find that Lightroom does a fabulous job creating this effect as well.