More like an expired negative than simply underexposed, but it has a great retro look for lots of stylised color-grading fun. Great for vintage fashion.
Back to more realistic stuff, and like the profile version you’ll notice a real shift from orange to red in under Tungsten light. Not a huge difference from the Daylight styles in cooler images, the real differences are in the oranges and reds.
6) Ektar 100 – Pushed
Pushed Ektar is just fun. Gobs of saturation and contrast, with that distinctive blue tonality that adds a clarity to just about everything. Try reducing the opacity if it’s a little too much.
TWEAKS AND TOOLS
GRAIN
An important part of realistic emulation is replicating the film grain and acutance (detail) of the film. However, doing both clean and dirty versions of every preset would’ve doubled the size of the pack and made it harder to use. So we simply separated these adjustments, after applying your film style simply click one of the 5 grain presets to add a realistic analog look to your images. 35mm has coarser and more noticeable grain than 120 due to the smaller size of the negative, and the stronger versions are modelled on the underexposed/faded shots.
For maximum realism, these grain presets also reduce the sharpness of the image to simulate the lower resolution of film – we find this helps the grain look like an intrinsic part of the image rather than an overlay, and gets you closer to the look of a film scan. If you find it too much, hit the ‘Reset Sharpness’ style or use the Subtle grain style. Remember you can easily remove an applied style in C1 simply by clicking it again.
FADING
We’ve also supplied a few styles which will add a faded look to your image. You can apply these directly or use them as a layer to adjust opacity. Have a play and see what works for you.
UTILITIES
Finally, a couple of utilities to help you fine-tune the styles the way you want them. Ektar can be rather unforgiving with skintones, especially paler caucasian skin, so we’ve included the Pink Skin Reduction tool to help with this. It’s very subtle and just takes the edge from skin which is a little too saturated (rosy cheeks, pink noses etc).
There’s also a simple Pink Highlight Reduction style which uses the Color Balance panel to counteract the magenta cast you sometimes get with Ektar (especially on the Noritsu scanner). Again it’s rather subtle but can be handy.
We’ve included quick contrast boosts too, if you find the default style isn’t pushing it quite hard enough for you. These manipulate the Contrast and Brightness sliders for a little boost; you’re probably quite capable of doing that yourself so feel free to delete them if they’re just wasting space.
Finally, there’s Cooling Blue Tones and Warming Orange Tones, quick grading shortcuts that slightly shift the tonality without touching the white balance.
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