Old Worn Effect in Photoshop

August 5, 2008 · Print This Article

In this Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how you can create the similar effect.

With the below image I wanted to create a dream like, in the past effect, and in this tutorial I will attempt to explain what I did and how you can also do it. This technique is very simple and can be used and manipulated for lots of other things.

Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.

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Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps

Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.

Duplicate your layer -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer…

Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Photo Filter - once you’re there click on this for my settings and change your settings to match mine. The colour in the box that I used was 663708 - You can have any colour but it’s important to keep it a dark orange/brown colour.

Now duplicate your photo filter layer -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer…

You should now have two image layers and two
Photo Filter layers. Click on your first (e.g. bottom)
Photo Filter layer and then go -> Layer -> Merge Down - Once that’s done you should now have two image layers and one
Photo Filter layer! Set your second image layer to Overlay.

I hope the above makes sense… it’s a bit tricky to explain. Moving on, go to your remaining
Photo Filter layer and change the Opacity to 70%

Now press M on your keyboard and you should be using the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Once you have that at the top of Photoshop you’ll see a toolbar and there you will find a little box that says ‘Feather’ next to it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, Take a look here. - Now inside that little box I want you to replace 0 with 5 (ignore the fact that mine has 55 in it, old screen shot).

Go to your image and create a rectangle in the middle of your image. Take a look at what I did.

Once you’ve selected your shape go -> Select -> Inverse - Once that’s done you’ll notice a change to your image.

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… on this image I picked black, but you can do anything really, I feel black works best here.
Select your colour and click OK!

Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.