How can I make my photos look like 35mm photos?

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This may seem kinda silly to ask to anyone with photo expertise, but How can I take high-quality shots with my normal 6 megapixel digital camera and make them appear like 35mm pictures? (I can't afford a digital 35mm at the moment)

I want to capture the color-saturated, grainy, out-of-focus feel in my photos, are there any photoshop techniques that can do this?
 
Well, there is no such thing as a digital 35mm. You either get a digital or film camera. There are full frame digital cameras that give the quality of 35mm but they are professional cameras and high dollar. Not to be nit-picky. I wish they could combine 35mm and digital. It would make a hell of a camera. Like someone else advised, you can use editing software to add a vintage look or a film grain to your image, depending on which you were really leaning toward.

You can get a 35mm for much less than the same quality digital camera by the way. It will probably cost about half as much to get the 35mm version of a digital camera.

There are three main downsides to using 35mm. It costs much more ($15-20 per roll once you add the cost of the roll of film, processing costs and a picture cd) to shoot a roll of film than it costs to print the same number of digital prints (less than $2 from my current lab). And you can't see what your pictures look like until you get them back after processing and cannot just take a picture and post it online. And, for someone who is used to digital, there is no live view screen with 35mm. I am not trying to talk you out of a 35mm, but just be aware of these things.
 
(Adobe) Photoshop and (Adobe) Lightroom has "vibrance" function that will make your photos looks more saturated, but not bleeding saturated.

The "black level", when used properly, will almost make it look like it's taken on a Kodachrome.

Grains can be easily added. But I usually don't do that to my photos. :-)
 
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