Old Photo Effect Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Old Photo Effect Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.

This old effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is extremely useful when you have boring images that need sprucing up.

Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, and discover new things in Photoshop.

This tutorial was added on April 8th 2008

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Old Photo Effect Tutorial - The Steps

Firstly, duplicate your layer. -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer or the handy shortcut CTRL/Control + J

Now go, Filter -> Other -> High Pass -> change your current setting to 10 and then go to your layers pallet, find the drop down menu which currently says “Normal”, change that to “Softlight

Next go, -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 74b1a

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient… when the first box appears, change the mode/drop down menu (which displays “Normal”) to “Overlay” then press OK. Take a look at this screenshot change your settings so they match mine. Don’t worry about the actual gradient bit at first. Once you’ve changed all the settings then click on the gradient strip, another box will appear, change the first gradient color to FF7200 and then the second to 000000

This time go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient… when the first box appears, change the mode/drop down menu (which displays “Normal”) to “Overlay” then press OK. Take a look at this screenshot change your settings so they match mine. Don’t worry about the actual gradient bit at first. Once you’ve changed all the settings then click on the gradient strip, another box will appear, change the first gradient color to 000000 and then the second to FFFFFF

Next go, -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: b17487

And again go… -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Color Burn”, then find the opacity, change that to 18% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: f8f77a

Once more… -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Screen”, then find the opacity, change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 00ffb4

Lastly… -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Overlay”, then find the opacity, change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: FF0084

Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Old Photo Effect Tutorial.