Beautiful, Nostalgic Screenshots

[Arcturus]

I stumbled upon the Flickr account of [kodama_SS], and was thoroughly amazed by their Photoshop handiwork. Nostalgic feels ensued. Peruse the beautiful images [here].

Some examples:










Additional information:

If you can read Japanese (or can bear the Google Auto-Translate version) there are several tutorials and step by step walkthroughs/guides on the artist's blog. Check it out~ http://kotodamaecho.blog3.fc2.com/

They seem to be taking screenshots with shadows off followed by shadows on, then picking the shadow colors from the "shadows on" pics and painting more realistic shadows this way on a copy of "shadows off" screenshot.

So it's not a matter of converting them (it's never that easy)