With retro effects such as lomo, vintage, diana and chrome becoming increasingly popular its probably a good idea to see how you can manipulate your photos in that way. In this tutorial we will follow a handful of easy steps (promise!) to turn a conventional photograph into a lomo piece of art!
We will use a rather plain photograph that will make …

Begin your Photoshop filters by making a Merged Visible layer above all of your work to this point. This is a way of making a flattened copy of everything you see.
In order to make a new layer hit: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E

Label the Merged Visible Layer by double-clicking its name in the Layers palette. Duplicate this Merged Visible Layer several times. The goal …