But their usefulness doesn’t stop there, as these can be extremely interesting looks on their own.Īdding a Distressed effect can dramatically change the look and feel of an image, regardless of its historical connection. Thus, by adding these sorts of effects to your photos and videos, you can give them a sense of history or nostalgia. In the photo space, 35mm has been the king of the consumer space for a long time, but many other smaller formats were released over the years, and similar film handling mistakes were fairly easy to make which could lead to these artifacts. (Roughly the 1930’s through the 1970’s) Especially in the consumer space, mistakes and mishandling artifacts were much more likely and hence the kinds of effects seen in VSCO’s Distressed category could have been part of that experience. In the times before cell phones, camcorders, and even VHS, personal videos would have been recorded on 8mm film and then projected for friends and family to see. First of all, these effects are like the dust and scratch effects in that they are less rooted in our lived experience and more rooted in our visual history.
#DISTRESSED FX V2 HOW TO#
Now that we know what the Distressed effects are, let’s explore how to put them to use. The a version includes the sprocket hole, the b version does not. Presented with this tension, we created special versions of some effects to allow for both possibilities with an a and a b version.
In early user testing, we found the sprocket holes especially to be something that some may want and others may not.
Several of the Distressed effects were over-scanned, meaning they were scanned beyond the image area to include sprocket holes and elements usually cropped out. Rip (Photo Only): This frame came from a very expired reel of film in which a piece of the film somewhere else came off and found it’s way onto this frame as it was being scanned.īad Scan (Video Only): Like the Broken effects, this clip came from film that was pulled off track during scanning, but in this case it caused the frame lines to get misaligned, which can only really be seen in motion. We’re not sure what caused this, but we like it.īroken 1-4: Everything in this category came from motion film that was pulled off-track near the end of reel, causing light from the scanner to get into the frame and wreak beautiful havok on the image. Glow: This is the most subtle of the Distressed category, containing only a blue glow on one edge and some speckled blue texture throughout the frame. There is inconsistency in how the chemicals reacted, creating clips, stains, and irregularities across the frame. Let’s look at the items in this category:īurn 1a & 1b (Photo only): This is a piece of film that has lost some layers on the edges, leaving only a blue glow, likely from being an extremely old film that couldn’t hold together completely when processed decades later.Įxpired: This is another collection of an old film that didn’t come out perfectly when processed years after its expiration date. These effects can be powerful tools to shape the mood and feeling of an image or video, as well as giving them a sense of nostalgia. All of these effects are “happy accidents” from 8mm motion film that has been bent, ripped, melted, neglected, scanned wrongly, or otherwise mishandled. “Distressed” is a broad term that we’re using to describe film that has been severely mistreated, creating some of the most aggressive looks in the entire set of new effects. This week, we’re excited to add the Distressed category to this new list of film FX. In the last blog, we introduced the updated FX tab and the new categories for Light & Texture.
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