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Vintage Effects On Photos With Photoshop: Step 1

This Photoshop tutorial provides steps to make an ordinary photo look vintage or old in 3 sentences or less: This tutorial shows how to apply effects like noise, adjustments to hue and saturation, exposure, and overlays to give a photo a nostalgic and antique look by making it appear faded, worn, and monochromatic. Additional layers are used to add grain and textures to further enhance the vintage appearance. The tutorial requires basic filters, layers, and tools and provides specific settings to transform a modern photo into a retro-style image in under 10 steps.

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Vintage Effects On Photos With Photoshop: Step 1

This Photoshop tutorial provides steps to make an ordinary photo look vintage or old in 3 sentences or less: This tutorial shows how to apply effects like noise, adjustments to hue and saturation, exposure, and overlays to give a photo a nostalgic and antique look by making it appear faded, worn, and monochromatic. Additional layers are used to add grain and textures to further enhance the vintage appearance. The tutorial requires basic filters, layers, and tools and provides specific settings to transform a modern photo into a retro-style image in under 10 steps.

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Vintage Effects on Photos with Photoshop

in photoshop

Vintage aka Old school effect when used properly will give a nostalgic,


antique, and unique impression. The vintage impression can be
applied to various graphic elements such as letters, pictures/photos,
layouts, etc. In this Photoshop tutorial , we will try to turn an ordinary
photo into a vintage photo . This tutorial requires no complicated
techniques and is quite simple to follow, just check it out!   :)

Step 1

You can use any photo, but in this tutorial, I'm using a photo I found
on Flickr . Download the photo, and enter it into
the Photoshop application . Previously, I set the canvas size to
1024x731 px (according to the size of the photo). Rename the photo
layer to 'image'.

Step 2

Select the 'image' layer in the layer palette, then go to Filter > Noise >
Add Noise . Set the Amount value to 5, select Gaussian in
the Distribution section , then tick the Monochromatic check mark . If
so, click OK.
Step 3

Click the 'Create new fill or adjustment layer' icon at the bottom of the
layers palette and select Hue/Saturation . Set the values for Hue,
Saturation, and Lightness as shown below. Don't forget to check
the Colorize section . Up to this point, we have determined the color
'tone' of the photo.
Step 4

Click the 'Create new fill or adjustment layer' icon again. This time,
choose Exposure . Set the Exposure , Offset , and Gamma values as
shown below.

Step 5

Now click on the masking-thumbnail on the Exposure layer (see


image). Change Photoshop's foreground color to black by pressing
the D key on your keyboard. Then brush the brush (B) on the center
of the canvas to mask the adjustment filter on the image. A
black brush is used to remove the Exposure effect in the middle of the
canvas so that the dark part (due to the Exposure effect) stays at the
edges.
Step 6

Next, change the foreground color to white by pressing the X key on


the keyboard. Create a new layer and fill it
with foreground color (white) by pressing Alt + Delete keys on the
keyboard. Select the layer, then select Filter > Noise > Add
Noise and adjust the noise settings as shown below.
Step 7

Now use the Magic Wand Tool (W) to randomly erase part of 'layer
1'. When the Magic Wand Tool is active, in the Control Bar at the top
set the Tolerance value to 30 and check the Contiguous section , then
click anywhere on the canvas and press the Delete key  to delete
it. The result will be something like the image below. Press Ctrl +
D keys on the keyboard to exit selection mode.
Step 8

Still on 'layer 1', use a Brush (B) size of 1px and hardness of 100%,


then scribble randomly on 'layer 1' to give the photo a broken and
worn look.
Step 9

Change the blend mode of 'layer 1' to Overlay and opacity to 50%.


Step 10

Create a new layer, fill it with color #c9ae8e . This layer will be


automatically named 'layer 2'.

Step 11

Select 'layer 2' then go to Filter > Texture > Grain . In the Grain
window , set the Intensity to 15 and the Contrast to 5, click Ok when
you're done.
Step 12

Change the blend mode of 'layer 2' to Softlight and opacity to


70. Done!

Final Result

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