How can I achieve this "look"?

[joietan]

Lately, I've been losing sleep (dreaming about the things that we.. well you get the joke.)

Seriously though, I would like to ask on how to achieve this trendy "look" of today's teenage shutterbug (well, the style and feel of the edit strikes me). It's been months since I started searching for answers but ended up almost empty-handed. If you all could be so generous and share your wisdom to starters like me, sharing some specific tips would be greatly appreciated

Here are the dooblidoos (my slang for links HAHA):
Instagram
Instagram
Instagram
Instagram
Instagram
Instagram

PS. all photos belong to their respective owners, i will never ever intend to steal anyone's photos, just mimic their general awesomeness.

 

[IronMaskDuval]

One post with external links. You'll get more success if you embed them.

 

[SCraig]

One post with external links. You'll get more success if you embed them.

If they aren't the OP's photographs then that would be against forum rules. The OP did what he was supposed to do, that being show links only to photographs that he does not have the rights to.

 

[IronMaskDuval]

One post with external links. You'll get more success if you embed them.

If they aren't the OP's photographs then that would be against forum rules. The OP did what he was supposed to do, that being show links only to photographs that he does not have the rights to.

ok. I'm just weary of clicking on one post links. I am active in another forum where doing so would get you no where fun.

 

[Braineack]

First start with taking bad pictures...

 

[Ysarex]

And then abuse the H*ll out of them with really cr*ppy software.

 

[Zyr55]

If you mean the edit style? try this.

 

[KmH]

Some of those photos have the way over used 'vintage' look, which adds a yellow color cast, a haze, and reduces the color saturation or the color vibrance to simulate color fading.

What editing software do you have available?

Using just about any raster graphics editing software (GIMP, Photoscape, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc) use the Curves tool/feature/function.
Select just the blue channel to add the yellow color cast by moving the top right point down.
The haze is also created using Curves. Go back to RGB and move the lower left end point up.
Use whatever tools your software has to de-saturate the colors in the image slightly.

 

[Tee]

Seriously though, I would like to ask on how to achieve this trendy "look" of today's teenage shutterbug (well, the style and feel of the edit strikes me).

Use Instagram?