This historic theatre in Denver, Colorado was built in 1915 and took the name Bluebird in the 1920s. Edits: In Lightroom, I straightened and cropped the image. Then I uploaded it to Firefly and asked for 1930s attire on people. (It erased the existing people and created new ones.) Back in Lightroom, I removed half of the AI-generated people, as well as the traffic lights, street lights, and bike racks. Then I tinkered with curves, clarity, texture and mask adjustments in order to lift blacks, soften image and emphasize light emanating from the windows. Generally, I do not use AI features to create something that was not already there but I broke my own rule for this EraShift challenge.

#ECK #PostProcess #EraShift
Original image from @rjrock.bsky.social
These theatre patrons have time-traveIed from Firefly to an era that predates traffic signals and bike racks on the sidewalk. The theatre was built in 1915 and took the name Bluebird in the 1920s. See Alt-text for edits.

Welcome to the Tron: Legacy Era. Daft Punk sends their regards.

I used several adjustment layers in Photoshop, but the key is a desaturated Glowing Edges filter and the Darken blend mode.

For challenge #PostProcess #EraShift #ECK #EastCoastKin

Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

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#erashift #postprocessing challenge

Attempted to recreate the tones of a "good old days" paint by number image.

A color photo of a neon theater marquee called Bluebird. The original photo is by Rock. I have an old snapshot from 1970 that has faded dramatically from light exposure. I tried my best to replicate this by only using Snapseed edits.

Pro tip: Don't leave your snapshots laying around in the sun

New Photo Challenge: #EraShift by @rjrock.bsky.social #ECK #EastCoastKin #PostProcess

All edits made on my Apple iPhone and Snapseed mobile app

Using memory, this #PostProcess #EraShift is an attempt to recreate a Vivian Maier vibe: smooth, intimate and warm.

Please see and follow @rjrock.bsky.social for former, current, and future #PostProcess photo prompts ♥️

Outstanding edit Katherine!! 🤩🤍🩶🖤👍🏼 Love this one 😌👍🏼

Since everyone is mostly wearing black I made it matte black and white to look like newspaper print. 📰

I also added myself to the photo because I'm like that. ✌🏻

#PostProcess #EraShift challenge and image by
@rjrock.bsky.social #ECK

@rjrock.bsky.social #Eck #erashift #postprocessing challenge
I went with giving it a look of more incandescent lighting and from an Instamatic camera that maybe didn’t have such good focus or definition and maybe in a time with a bit of smoke and pollution
#eastcoastkin

Black-and-white photo of the Bluebird Theater at night, with a glowing marquee and group of people gathered on the sidewalk beneath it.

Since everyone is mostly wearing black I made it matte black and white to look like newspaper print. 📰

I also added myself to the photo because I'm like that. ✌🏻

#PostProcess #EraShift challenge and image by
@rjrock.bsky.social #ECK

Photo by @rjrock.bsky.social There are so many edits... I used Snapseed to take down the saturation, add the vintage coloration. Then used Google photos on the big screen to adjust contrast and shadows.

For these edits of Rock's photo, I went to my physical archives - boxes of photos taken in the 70's. Who knows what kind of camera, 50 years later. Most of them have this hazy, brown/green look, so that's what I went with.

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#EastCoastKin #photography
#artchallenge

This photo marked the first time I seriously edited an image in ACDSee Ultimate 2025. It was a challenge, as I come from a school of thought where a photo should, in principle, be perfect in one go – apart from cropping and brightening, that is. I boosted the saturation slightly, shifted the colour tone towards yellow, and adjusted the calibration and partial tone slightly. Finally, I applied vignetting to create a softer transition towards the edges.

My aim in editing this photo was to evoke the atmosphere of a balmy summer evening in the 1960s or 1970s. I softened the harshness of the neon lighting and slightly enhanced other light sources.

Thanks for this initiative to @rjrock.bsky.social and #ECK. It’s been great fun!

#PostProcess #EraShift

A couple standing on the left beneath a glowing lamppost on a quiet street, with a brick building behind them in moody black and white. I edited the photo by using the tools in my iPhone 16 pro, and underlayed it with the editing option ’cardboard paper’ via the app BeCasso, in order to give it a grittier look.

#ECK #PostProcess #EraShift
Photo provided by @rjrock.bsky.social

I cropped the photo rather radically (sorry! 😅) to focus on the couple on the left. They gave me such a 1940s noir vibe that I just couldn’t resist. I only hope I managed to capture at least a little of it.
(Editing info in alt text)

A color photo of a classic movie theater edited to look like a faded postcard from the 70s. Multiple filters applied in Canva and Snapseed, layered and adjusted to get the retro look and fading. Used Google Photos to remove people wearing summer clothing. Design in Canva to add lettering. Final edit in Snapseed to add some scratches and wear.

Greetings from the 70s.

This photo provided by @rjrock.bsky.social for the #PostProcess challenge #EraShift just felt like an old postcard. The lights wrapped around the lamposts looked Christmasy, hence the Seasons Greetings. See alt text for additional info.

#ECK #SensoryArt #urban

Black and white photo of the front of a theater with half toning to look like an old newspaper photo

I went with newsprint for this #PostProcessing challenge. Halftone mono seemed like the #EraShift for me. #ECK #photography #ClassicMono

A rough approximation of noir (not a student of film history)
—Deepened blacks and added a vignette
—Highlighted one individual
—Bumped contrast and sharpness
—Tweaked perspective to suggest extreme camera angle

Original photo by ‪@rjrock.bsky.social‬

#ECK #EastCoastKin #PostProcess #EraShift

Photo by @rjrock.bsky.social -DNG edited in Affinity 3 (Canva), basic RAW edits. Exposure, shadows, highlights, white balance, clarity -HSL color edits to take out the red light on the marquee and focus on the blue and yellow on the sign and the ambient light around the theater. -Image cropped and straightened to show the streetlight on the sidewalk and stop light. I used the horizontal line of lights as the guide.

#ECK #EastCoastKin
#PostProcess Challenge: #EraShift

Photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

-HSL color edits to take out the red light on the marquee and focus on the blue and yellow on the sign and the ambient light around the theater.
-Image cropped and straightened.
-More details in #ALTtxt

This one I changed to a dark contrasty bw using NikTools' Silver Efx Pro, and then add grain using the Color Efx Pro. I have a Robert Frank recipe preset, but I didn't use that one for this.

I added the wet plate effect using NikTools' Analog Efx Pro and muted the colors using the same tool. I made a sepia version, but I decided I liked imagining if color were readily available to 19th century photographers, so I went with this one.

So, this will be my first go at the #ECK #PostProcess #EraShift challenge from Rock (@rjrock.bsky.social).

Being me, part photographer and part sci-fi weirdo, I've done 2, both using the Niktools suite. The 1st is reimagined Robert Frank. The 2nd imagines if 19th century wet plates used color.

Edited in Lightroom and Analog Efex plug-in. I'll spare the boring details. Period costume as I've said is a problem if you want to shift eras. Very time consuming if you want to remove people, although AI could do it in a tick, but we're not going there are we? Not 100% happy with this might have another pop.

Edited image - original by @rjrock.bsky.social for the #postprocess #erashift challenge. #EastCoastKin

Late 80's early 90's when folk didn't know if they were hair metal or grunge, all because Rock left humans in there 😉
Not sure if people wore baseball caps and shorts in the 40's 🤔 Deets in ALT

#postprocess challenge this week is #erashift

I was going for 70’s Polaroid at night. How did I do?

Original photo courtesy of @rjrock.bsky.social

My attempt at the challenge proposed by @rjrock.bsky.social and relayed by @bloodraynes.bsky.social.

#ECK
#EastCoastKin
#PostProcess
#EraShift
#PhotographyChallenge
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

Photo of the Bluebird Theater on Colfax Avenue in Denver taken by @rjrock.bsky.social and processed by me to look as though it is a faded physical print of a photo taken in the 1990's. The image was processed in Darktable. I rotated the image a little to—in theory—give a more straight-on "holiday snapshot" feel. I then increased the exposure a little to counter the darkening that happens during subsequent steps in Darktable. I messed (the best way to describe my editing style!) with Darktable's Tone Equalizer, Color Balance RGB, and Grain modules. Then, in Darktable's Colour Zone module, I lowered the saturation of the blues and greens a little as I noticed they seemed to have degraded much more than anything else on the sample prints I used as a reference.

Photo of the Bluebird Theater on Colfax Avenue in Denver taken by @rjrock.bsky.social and processed by me to look as though it is a freshly printed physical photo taken in the 1990's. The image was processed in Darktable. I rotated the image a little to—in theory—give a more straight-on "holiday snapshot" feel. I then increased the exposure a little to counter the darkening that happens during subsequent steps in Darktable. I messed (the best way to describe my editing style!) with Darktable's Tone Equalizer, Color Balance RGB, and Grain modules.

#EastCoastKin #ECK #PostProcess #EraShift challenge.

Photo taken by @rjrock.bsky.social and sliders semi-randomly thrown around in Darktable by me.

The excuse for my choices are in the threaded post, and a brief process for each image is in its alt text.

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Wait what…

This one only joking, not serious filter edits but used Ai first of all…

#Erashift #marjamjars #PostProcess #ECK #AIGenerated #Bluesky #Photography

In Snapceed I have done those steps. First I have set in in square and than playing around with the Grunge and drama tools.

For @rjrock.bsky.social #Postprocess #Erashift I have to try to go back to early 19 century, and give it the look from a old photo, that i have seen in old photoalbum. Every advice is more than welcome. More in Alt.
#ECK #Snapceed

Night shot of a vintage theater with about 10 people on the sidewalk. Two blue neon signs above the marquee say bluebird theatre in cursive.The marquee says Sun, Christian Loffler, orbit. Most of the image is dark except foot stopping the lit sign

My take on the #PostProcess #EraShift challenge. I looked through several point-and-shoot 35mm photos from the early 2000s and tried to replicate the look without obvious processing flaws. Details on my process in the thread

#ECK #EastCoastKin

Thanks @rjrock.bsky.social for the challenge

Coming from a Darkroom background and early Photoshop I’m constantly experimenting in ways to get digital images to act more like film and paper. The concept to give an experimental traditional darkroom look with a mid century treatment. Square aspect ratio like TLR camera of the time In Snapseed I copied cropped image. Creating a Negative image using curves. Overlaying positive and negative images and shifting slightly to create Mackie lines. I adjusted opacity to desired effect. Lastly adjusted a variety of filters until a believable result was attained.

My obsession with
Mid Century Modern Synthesized Solarization, or the Sabattier effect created in Snapseed more in alt.
For #PostProcess #EraShift #ECK #EastCoastKin
Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

#ECK #EastCoastKin #PostProcess #EraShift

The Bluebird in the 1970s.

#PostProcess challenge by @rjrock.bsky.social, transforming a photo of a modern theatre into one existing in the mid-1800s. Software: ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate/Nik Analog Efex Pro 2.

The Bluebird theater, 'shifted' back to circa 1860
#PostProcess challenge #EraShift

Inspired by wet plate photography.
Manipulated grain, contrast, color, clarity, saturation, etc. Wet plate effect from Analog Efex Pro 2 w/scratches and stains.

#ECK #ArtYear #PhotographersofBluesky #EastCoastKin

All changes made in my Samsung phone editor. Street scene outside the Bluebird Cinema, housed in an old art deco style yellow brick building, with period details. The marquee is lit up, and the words on the left side of it are obscured. The words on the right of it are mostly off frame, So only the B of Bluebird and the word SUN is visible. There's a turquoise blue glow coming off the sign against the building, matching the door frame and trim. There's movie posters displayed in frames, with the larger one Back to the Future. Inside the theatre is orange with warm lighting. There's a reflection of lights in one of the upper windows from across the street. A trashcan covered with stickers and an illuminated streetlamp with string lights wrapped around the pole are near the curb to the left of the marquee. On the very left are a couple talking. One has their back to the camera and is looks like they have Marty McFly's orange vest on, which was made using my finger to draw with the Samsung phone editor.

#PostProcess #EraShift challenge & raw image by @rjrock.bsky.social

On my phone, I cropped it & upped the contrast. Went 80's colour. Since we're playing with time, used Back to the Future palette. Removed all but 2 people, & changed his shirt to look more like Marty McFly's garb. Added the poster.

A photo of the Bluebird's neon marquee with people hanging out. "Bluebird" is written in blue neon and the photo is blue tinged throughout and faded. It's in a Polaroid white frame.

Polaroid time machine

My 80s edit for the #PostProcess #EraShift challenge.

Photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

Edited in Snapseed to play up the blue, then used MySquare to add a Polaroid frame and a filter to fade it.

A photograph of a Theater at night.

A high-contrast, black and white photograph of a Theater at night.

A photograph of a Theater at night.

A high-contrast, black and white photograph of a Theater at night.

Cinema

This isn't my image it was supplied by @rjrock.bsky.social for this new challenge, thanks 👍🏻

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