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How to Create a Retro Film Effect in Canva
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Nov 25, 2024
👉 Learn how to transform your digital designs into nostalgic masterpieces with Canva's retro film effect. In this video, we’ll guide you step-by-step to achieve that classic cinematic look effortlessly. 🎙 Microphone: https://geni.us/KVRt 🦾 Boom arm: https://geni.us/FU6y 💻 Web hosting: https://geni.us/BestWordPressHosting ❤ Subscribe if you find this video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/@asapguide?sub_confirmation=1
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hi in this video I'm going to show you
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on how you can create a retrofilm effect
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to a photo in confest so it's
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essentially going to make your photo
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look like was taken more than 100 years
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ago and I think there is some really
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good aesthetic of it because it just
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looks very different than what we have
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today and fortunately achieving that
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effect is not difficult at all so the
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first thing that you need to do is you
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have to insert a photo to your canas
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document and I'm going to insert this
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photo of a woman sitting in a rice field
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and I'm going to set it as a
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background and yeah I think this is good
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enough click done and after that you
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want to download the photo with a
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smaller resolution because camera back
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in the day don't have the same
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resolution that we have today they
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usually much much lower so we have to
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introduce that uh pixelation at effect a
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bit by by reducing the resolution click
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download and uh the file typ is it could
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be jet page it could be PNG I'm going to
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use BNG and you want to reduce the
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resolution to maybe just half of the
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original size and after that uh you can
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also compress the file if you want to
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make it even more uh look lower quality
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if you want and you can click
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download now just wait until it is
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downloaded to our computer okay when
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it's done I'm going to remove this photo
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because we don't need this anymore we
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are going to upload the photo that has
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been reduced its resolution
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and I'm going to set it as a
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background now just wait until it is
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uploaded and set it as a background as
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you can see it is definitely less sharp
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compared to the original photo but
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that's exactly what we want to achieve
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and after that you want to click
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edit go to
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adjust and this is where we can play
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around with the parameters there are a
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lot of things here but uh the most
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important thing here is actually the
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saturation so camera
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from more than 100 years ago they don't
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have the same amount of colors so we
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want to reduce that Colors by reducing
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the saturation as you can see if you set
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it to zero it's almost like black and
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white but we don't have to do that we
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just want to reduce it slightly to
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appropriate amount I think between 30
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and 40 is good enough and I'm going to
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apply some fet effect so there's going
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to be some dark area surrounding this
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subject maybe not uh not too much around
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50 is good enough and you can also play
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around with other numbers like the
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temperature for example I'm going to
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increase the temperature so it looks a
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bit more orange and after that I will
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increase the contrast a little bit just
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a little bit maybe 10 or
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20 and you can also play around with the
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whites and highlight so it's going to
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make the white area to be kind of
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Overexposed because again that's just
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look very old I'm going to increase the
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white
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uh just a little bit around 20 and
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highlight is maybe just
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10 okay so after that when you're done
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you can uh you can actually go to
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elements and you want to search for
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vintage overlay that's the keyword that
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we are looking for and you can navigate
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to the graphics or the photo section
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it's totally up to you I think graphic
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is better because we have plenty of uh
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transparent options right here and I'm
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going to like for example this one or
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maybe not this one let's try something
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else I guess I want to try
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this okay so let's make it
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bigger and this is one style you can
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apply but if you don't like it you can
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try something else like maybe this
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one and yeah I think this is good enough
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but of course let's try something else
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from the photo section because they
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usually have more variety so there are
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there are many options but they are not
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transparent so that's uh one thing that
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keep to keep in mind if you want to
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apply them you have to add your uh add
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the transparency to this element so if I
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put it here I have to adjust the
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transparency and yeah around here it's
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good enough and this is the result if
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you want to adjust the look of the photo
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further you can click position and then
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you can click layers and you can click
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the background and then you can play
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around with the adjustment number if you
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still want to make it look a bit
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different so you can reduce the
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saturation again you can
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also increase the dark area to make it
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more prominent and yeah that's basically
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it I think this photo looks old enough
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and uh you know it's very very close to
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the redro style that we have in uh more
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than 100 years ago so that's exactly how
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you can get the retrofilm effect in Cana
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