no semi about it, this is super convincing! im envious, I've always wanted to try that but im not particularly photoshop savvy. i remember when I was a kid, I used to sit way too close to this little tv we had in our kitchen to the point I could see the individual pixels. i was fascinated by how it worked. just a bunched of colored dots! and the fact that it was only three colors blew my mind at that tender age lol

Thank you, very much. :>
Oh, I remember I did that too. It was bloody fascinating! :)

There are a few details I'm not very happy about, but it sort of works. I'll try to develop it a bit further and maybe make it into a loooooong action. Also, I added some tutorials in the description.

whoa thanks for the resources, that first vhs one looks especially helpful

...mmm, yes.

It does make me wonder though what low-fi aesthetics will mean for the coming generations.

My guess is it'll feel about the same as WW1/2 footage to us.

"Hey, check out that old TFT look. So crap."

very much reminds me of the music of oneohtrix point never. try it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/mus.....-never-replica

Wonderfully eerie music. Thanks!

you're welcome. just remember.

Thanks. :>

Excellent start with the color shading - that looks really convincing - but to truly emulate old b/w TV, there should be no vertical lines showing in the image like there are here. None at all.

I do not agree. Both CRT monitors and the TVs we had clearly show the vertical trinitron mesh. It is much more evident than horizontal scanlines, which tend to blend. The vertical mesh lines is the one thing I think turned out well here.

Sorry, I thought you were trying to emulate a vintage black-and-white TV image. I watched nothing but black-and-white sets for the first 30 years of my life, so I kind of know what they look like.

Ooh, I haven't even seen those. I'd have to do some research about them.
I was going more toward the 70s-80s aesthetic, with TV via antenna and VHS. I see how the b/w image might have mislead. :)

The texture really is convincing. The colors.

Ah, good to know. Thanks.

Incredible

Excellent result, and thank you for the process tips!

Glad to be of use.
And thanks. :]

I think you nailed the effect!

Great references too! Thanks for those!

Thanks.
And you're welcome. :)

Oh yeah, I did something like this a while back, but with just the specular reflections (the particularly bright ones that are reflecting sunlight) and it looked a bit like a digital camera took the photo.

Regardless, I'm a big fan of the experimentation involved and it really turned out nicely. Thanks for explaining it too. :)

Oh, I'm intrigued. So you started with an analog photograph? And what did you do to the highlights?

Just to make it clear, when I said "I'm a big fan of the experimentation involved and it really turned out nicely" I was referring to yours. What I did was just a fun little experiment :P

As for my own experiment I was just messing around with an illustration I was working on. It was seriously simple compared to what you've done.

I took the really sharp specular highlights (like, the specular reflection of the sun that you would find on a wet or metallic surface) and duplicated them twice. I made one of them cyan and the other red. I separated them diagonally with the white specular inbetween, kind of like how you have the red/blue separation in your picture. It's more noticeable in outdoor digital photos of course, lol, but yeah. An effect like that on a really finely rendered piece could produce some cool results. For example, the whole TV effect caused me to actually think that your picture was an acrylic/oil painting that you photographed, lol :()

Ah, the color shift. That's a lovely retro effect, especially when switched to CMYK, moved the channels a bit and then back to rgb - looks like misregistering in print. :)

The first tutorial has a nice macro for making the lense abberation effect in case you need to fake it again. It involves basically spherizing slightly every channel - red least, blue most. It's a bit more accurate than a separation, because you should get the opposite abberations on opposite sides of the lense, not a shift the same direction throughout the whole image. I remember A few years back the abberation thing puzzled me to no end.

I still can't figure out how exactly the slight color shift in a VHS recording works. You sort of see a more saturated edge on one side and a less saturated one on the other. But I can't figure out what is happening exactly.

I actually did this sort of a thing to salvage a file when the PC froze mid-work and the file was a veeery long way away (practically before the block-in stages). Used the nikon to snap the image then re-imported and carried on painting on top.

Hell, I'd totally do the same. If I didn't screw it all over first by trying to switch to other windows and "painting" it over...

Reason why two monitors can be helpful in those times, when you feel like browsing for reference a little.

This is too cool for school. All the more so for your sharing all your process with us. Thou art awesome!

Oh, thank you very much, kind sir! :3
Also, my pleasure.

I admire your thoroughness. Your dedication to chasing the concept down to the finest point--that marks the line between the dabblers and the dedicated--it puts you in a pretty small segment of the population. (Which is a good place to be. That's where the best work comes from anyway.)

Wow, thank you. Now you're certainly trying to spoil me with compliments. :>

Ah, if only I had the patience... I'd prolly work on one image all my life.
But doubts set in and I drop stuff that instant. Sometimes I drop entire activities because of a dissapointment. I'm not sure if that's considered good dedication. :]

I think it depends on where you have your focus. Ditching something because it isn't working--that's not a bad thing, at least not to me. My tendency is to wrestle with a piece until I get the bastard pinned on the mat. Stubbornness runs deep in my family. The bad side to that is failing to quit and start over when that's the best solution. I think I spent more time in the Land of Dead Paintings because of that stubbornness.

I guess my point would be this: your habits can only be called "bad" if they lead you away from The Mission: honing and maintaining your skills as an artist. What you suggest is hasty behavior sounds to me like decisiveness. Being decisive isn't a bad thing at all.

Nor are compliments, when they've been earned--and you earn more with every post. :)

Such a cool overall effect, though I wonder how it looks with great blooms of color...

Amazing!
You makes me surprised by means of the reproduce of TV screen without analog approach.

Thank you! Very much appreciated. :]

I also have plans of making it into a photoshop action to automate the process, but I see a few problems so far. If I succeed, I'll put it up for download and let you know. :)

I'm in the hope that you can put it.

What.... the fuck... where.. have you been!?!? Your art is fucking incrediable! Seriously!?!

This is amazing and disturbing.

Thank you SO much for putting up links for the effect, I'm trying to do some work with analog TV effects, this really helps

Ah, great to know it's of use. :]
(And thanks for all the comments!)

Looks that much more real.
TV makes things more real than reality.

Very emotional!

oh man! thanks for shearing this lovely image! it was enriching!