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Make a photo look like the distinct style of David Lynch's film Eraserhead? I realize this was done using specific film, and lighting and what-not, but I hope that I could accomplish the effect on a normal picture. Any ideas?


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EDIT: Added pictures because moxio said it would help, plus, wondering now that I've really looked at the pictures, can I just desaturate and boost the contrast?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Eraserheadposter.jpg/200px-Eraserheadposter.jpg
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/directors/02/eraserhead.jpg
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/19/eraserhead.jpg
http://davidlynch.de/cfq14a.jpg
 
Are there any pictures you could post of said film? Like, examples?

If the effect is because of the film itself and/or the lighting, it can probably be emulated but never really cloned.
 
[quote name='Moxio']Are there any pictures you could post of said film? Like, examples?

If the effect is because of the film itself and/or the lighting, it can probably be emulated but never really cloned.[/quote]

Added.
 
That doesn't look too hard. In general you could probably go with your idea of Desaturating it (Ctrl+U) and than increasing the contrast via Brightness and Contrast. For a grainier feel, you could even apply some threshold, which would have the image modified to raw black and white pixels, with the black spaced out to create the "gray" shading.

For a more glowing effect, you could try to Desaturate, than Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) and perhaps apply a Gaussian Blur (setting of 3ish) and set it with a Layer Effect like Hard Light or Soft Light many times over. It would create contrast while softening up the image.
 
[quote name='Moxio']That doesn't look too hard. In general you could probably go with your idea of Desaturating it (Ctrl+U) and than increasing the contrast via Brightness and Contrast. For a grainier feel, you could even apply some threshold, which would have the image modified to raw black and white pixels, with the black spaced out to create the "gray" shading.

For a more glowing effect, you could try to Desaturate, than Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) and perhaps apply a Gaussian Blur (setting of 3ish) and set it with a Layer Effect like Hard Light or Soft Light many times over. It would create contrast while softening up the image.[/quote]

Wow it came out really good! Once I fine-tune a pic. I'll post it up here
 
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