Holga/Lomo Photoshop Plugin/Action Download

Posted on November 3, 2008 by By Andrew
tags: action, editing, photoshop, plugin

If you are after a little set of actions to ‘holga-fy’ a photo, look no further!

I have created a handy little action list that will do the job perfectly.

Here’s some instructions

1.Download the holga photoshop action (right click>save as will work best), it’s probably a bit dodgy with some undo’s thrown in as I was recording it! But it should work ok.
2.Double-click on the file to import it into photoshop.
3.Create a canvas 2048*2048 and paste in the photo of your choice
4.Flatten the image or merge down(ctrl+e, cmd+e whichever for pc/mac).
5.Click on the Holga folder in the actions panel and click on the play button.
6.That’s it…one instant holga style black and white photo. If you don’t want it in black and white, simply expand the holga action and untick the final ‘make adjustment layer: hue/saturation’ to leave it in colour.

You may be able to edit the action list contents to change the settings for different size photos, as I understand 2048*2048 is quite big. I may release another one for smaller pictures soon.

Comments

Posted by Ogum on December 23rd, 2008, 23:00 (Reply to this comment)
Great plug in. I’ve used it on quite large files (4000×6000) with no problems at all.

The effect is spot on – well done.
Posted by piecemain on February 17th, 2009, 09:51 (Reply to this comment)
it’s great action im sure…
Posted by ALEK on March 7th, 2009, 20:06 (Reply to this comment)
GREAT!!
Posted by ALEK on March 7th, 2009, 20:07 (Reply to this comment)
it’s great action
Posted by Lauren on July 22nd, 2009, 18:25 (Reply to this comment)
thank you so much for this!!
Posted by digichick on July 23rd, 2009, 14:52 (Reply to this comment)
This looks great! However, alas, I am having serious problems running it and could do with some assistance. When I start the action it all behaves fine until it gets to the step “Move current layer to: Layer 3″ at which point a dialogue box pops up on my mac saying “The Move command is not currently available”. I’m not clear why this is. I just stop the script at this point and manually move the current layer to the top, but why is the action not doing it automatically?

I’m using PS CS on a Powerbook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4. Any clues? I’ve followed the above instructions to the letter btw. Thanks for an otherwise excellent action
Posted by Andrew(Admin) on July 23rd, 2009, 19:01 (Reply to this comment)
Hi digichick, that’s peculiar, I wonder if it’s something to do with the different versions of photoshop. Will take another look at it
Posted by lou on July 28th, 2009, 00:08 (Reply to this comment)
is the “holga” link supposed to lead you to the download? it only shows up as html. or am i an idiot? =D
Posted by pigletnoi on August 3rd, 2009, 09:04 (Reply to this comment)
good
Posted by CFS LOVES 33 | Code For Something on August 5th, 2009, 06:12 (Reply to this comment)
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Posted by hilmi on August 16th, 2009, 13:29 (Reply to this comment)
I’ve tried and it doesn’t work..Can someone help me by showing your photo as example?Thanx
Posted by jon van dine on February 4th, 2010, 17:28 (Reply to this comment)
this did not work well at all.
Posted by Lindsey on March 30th, 2010, 02:56 (Reply to this comment)
umm…
how do you download it? i clicked the underlined ‘holga’ and it just led me to a bunch of random letters and symbols.. help?
Posted by Andrew(Admin) on March 30th, 2010, 09:52 (Reply to this comment)
Hi Lindsey,

Try right clicking in the file and choosing ‘save as’.
Posted by Ari on May 4th, 2010, 06:17 (Reply to this comment)
Hmm. Didn’t work in Pshop CS4
Posted by aerobat on July 4th, 2010, 03:07 (Reply to this comment)
It runs fine in PS5 Ext (Mac 10.6.4). Fun effect/ Thanks for posting this action.
Note to those that seem to have trouble getting it started. Right click (Ctrl+Click on Mac) and save it to your desktop. Then double click on Holga.atn on your desktop. That should open PS and install the action. You will find the action under “Window -> Actions … probably at the bottom of the list. Open a picture, HIghlight the Holga action and then click the run button at the bottom (Right triangle like on a DVD player)
Posted by CopyCatFilms on July 21st, 2010, 22:08 (Reply to this comment)
Hmm…too bad. It doesn’t wanna work with PS CS5–it just bleaches out the image.
Posted by quique on September 15th, 2010, 17:57 (Reply to this comment)
hello,..howe i can donwnload this plugin ???
Posted by The Dane on November 22nd, 2010, 07:40 (Reply to this comment)
The emperor has no clothes on – and this plugin doesent do the job!
Posted by Krissy on October 14th, 2011, 14:01 (Reply to this comment)
This really doesn’t look like a Holga image to me. It is an interesting effect, but not what I was looking for. False advertisement.
Posted by Geeves on October 23rd, 2011, 20:51 (Reply to this comment)
Wow! Thank you so much. This works beautifully.