The Old Cream Separator

Loved this piece of antique machinery – a vintage cream separator (check out this link if you ever wondered how this works like I did) – that was outside one of our local Cracker Barrel restaurants (and where I bought my office friend Ted). Had to take a picture! I actually opened this image up on an old laptop and applied Nik’s legacy plug-in Color Efex Pro 3.o’s Cross Processing L08 at 80% strength. I did have to paint in some light curtains over the window using my Adobe Chalk 60 Brush set to 19% Angle Jitter to remove the reflections in the glass – used a Gaussian Blur on the layer afterwards to soften the effect. Then Nik’s Analog Efex Pro 2 was used to get the real vintage feel. Just the Basic Adjustments, Lens Vignette, Frames, and Levels & Curves filters were used. What makes this vintage look work is that the Luminosity curve is adjusted to make the object show up sharply. This is my favorite feature in this plug-in! That was it and a really nice vintage effect is achieved!…..Digital Lady Syd