Old Photo Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
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.
Vintage Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Vintage Effect Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.
This 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.
Feel free to request something similar to this vintage effect tutorial.
Before (first image) & After (second image):
Vintage Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- For this tutorial I would suggest you use the image I have used - download it!
- Assuming you’ve downloaded the image I’ve used I’m going to ask you to open it in Photoshop and continue read…
- Firstly make sure you have your “Layers” section - Look at mine! If you don’t have it then press F7 on your keyboard - or go -> Window -> Layers (Window can be located along the top of your computer, along side File & Edit - make sure you are in Photoshop though)
- Assuming you have Layers, I want you to look at it closely and hopefully you’ll see three miniature tabs: Layers, Channels, Paths - Photoshp automatically has it set to Layers - Please click ‘Channels’.You should now see this - once you’ve got the same as I have, please click on the one called blue and then select all (Mac users: Command/Apple + A Window users: CTRL + A) - you should see little running ants/dotted lines going around the image. Once you’ve got that, please copy the image - (Mac users: Command/Apple + C Window users: CTRL + C)
- Once you’ve copied the image then please press CTRL/Command + D - you’ll notice the running ants/dotted lines have disappeared. Then please click on the very top layer in your Layers section - the one that’s coloured - You’ll notice your image has gone back into colour - Your layers will look like this.
- Now you need to look at your layers section and click Layers - once you’re on layers, please paste what you copied a minute ago - CTRL/Command + V - You should now have two layers (like mine), one coloured and another black & white - assuming you do, please merge your layers - to do that go ->Layers -> Merge Visible - once that’s done you’ll be left with one layer.
- Now for the easy part… go -> Layers -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Layer - firstly a little box should appear, like this - change your mode from Normal to Multiply and Opacity from 100% to 26% - like mine.Once you’ve pressed OK another box will appear asking for a colour - enter FDDA39 and press OK - you’ll notice a new layer has appeared.
- Now we have to do the same all over again… go -> Layers -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Layer - in the little box that appears change the mode to Softlight and Opacity to 22% - then when the colour box appears add the colour FFABE8
- And that’s it. With the two coloured layers you can always lower or raise the opacity to give it a different feel.
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Vintage Effect Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
Antique Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Antique Effect Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.
This 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.
Feel free to request something similar to this antique effect tutorial.
Before (first image) & After (second image):
Antique Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- For this tutorial I would suggest you use the image I have used - download it!
- Assuming you’ve downloaded the image I’ve used I’m going to ask you to open it in Photoshop and continue read…
- Firstly make sure you have your “Layers” section -
Look at mine! If you don’t have it then press F7 on your keyboard - or go -> Window -> Layers (Window can be located along the top of your computer, along side File & Edit - make sure you are in Photoshop though)
- Assuming you have Layers, I want you to look at it closely and hopefully you’ll see three miniature tabs: Layers, Channels, Paths - Photoshp automatically has it set to Layers - Please click ‘Channels’.You should now see this - once you’ve got the same as I have, please click on the one called green and then select all (Mac users: Command/Apple + A Window users: CTRL + A) - you should see little running ants/dotted lines going around the image.Once you’ve got that, please copy the image - (Mac users: Command/Apple + C Window users: CTRL + C)
- Once you’ve copied the image then please press CTRL/Command + D - you’ll notice the running ants/dotted lines have disappeared.Then please click on the very top layer in your Layers section - the one that’s coloured - You’ll notice your image has gone back into colour - Your layers will look like this.
- Now you need to look at your layers section and click Layers - once you’re on layers, please paste what you copied a minute ago - CTRL/Command + V - You should now have two layers (like mine), one coloured and another black & white - assuming you do, please merge your layers - to do that go ->Layers -> Merge Visible - once that’s done you’ll be left with one layer.
- Now for the easy part… go -> Layers -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Layer - firstly a little box should appear, like this - change your mode from Normal to Multiply and Opacity from 100% to 26% - like mine.
Once you’ve pressed OK another box will appear asking for a colour - enter FDDA39 and press OK - you’ll notice a new layer has appeared.
- Now we have to do the same all over again… go -> Layers -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Layer - in the little box that appears change the mode to Softlight and Opacity to 22% - then when the colour box appears add the colour FFABE8
- And that’s it. With the two coloured layers you can always lower or raise the opacity to give it a different feel.
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Antique Effect Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
Aged Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Aged Effect Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.
This 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.
Feel free to request something similar to this aged effect tutorial.
Before (first image) & After (second image):
Aged Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- For this tutorial I would suggest you use the image I have used - download it!
- Assuming you’ve downloaded the image I’ve used I’m going to ask you to open it in Photoshop and continue read…
- Firstly make sure you have your “Layers” section - Look at mine! If you don’t have it then press F7 on your keyboard - or go -> Window -> Layers (Window can be located along the top of your computer, along side File & Edit - make sure you are in Photoshop though)
- Assuming you have Layers, I want you to look at it closely and hopefully you’ll see three miniature tabs: Layers, Channels, Paths - Photoshp automatically has it set to Layers - Please click ‘Channels’.You should now see this - once you’ve got the same as I have, please click on the one called red and then select all (Mac users: Command/Apple + A Window users: CTRL + A) - you should see little running ants/dotted lines going around the image. Once you’ve got that, please copy the image - (Mac users: Command/Apple + C Window users: CTRL + C)
- Once you’ve copied the image then please press CTRL/Command + D - you’ll notice the running ants/dotted lines have disappeared.Then please click on the very top layer in your Layers section - the one that’s coloured - You’ll notice your image has gone back into colour - Your layers will look like this.
- Once you’ve copied the image then please press CTRL/Command + D - you’ll notice the running ants/dotted lines have disappeared.Then please click on the very top layer in your Layers section - the one that’s coloured - You’ll notice your image has gone back into colour - Your layers will look like this.
- Now you need to look at your layers section and click Layers - once you’re on layers, please paste what you copied a minute ago - CTRL/Command + V - You should now have two layers (like mine), one coloured and another black & white - assuming you do, please merge your layers - to do that go ->Layers -> Merge Visible - once that’s done you’ll be left with one layer.
- Now for the easy part… go -> Layers -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Layer - firstly a little box should appear, like this - change your mode from Normal to Multiply and Opacity from 100% to 26% - like mine.Once you’ve pressed OK another box will appear asking for a colour - enter FDDA39 and press OK - you’ll notice a new layer has appeared.
- Now we have to do the same all over again… go -> Layers -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Layer - in the little box that appears change the mode to Softlight and Opacity to 22% - then when the colour box appears add the colour FFABE8
- And that’s it. With the two coloured layers you can always lower or raise the opacity to give it a different feel.
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Aged Effect Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
Photoshop Vintage Effect
June 29, 2008
This photoshop vintage effect tutorial will explain how to add colour to your images.
This effect is great when you want to add a more interesting look to your plain black and white images. Depending on the image you are trying this on you can tweak it to suit your images. This also works on coloured images, although it depends on the colours and if it’s not quite right, you can alter the effect simply by changing the opacity, fill and channel mixer (continue to read for more info).
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Before
After
Photoshop Vintage Effect - The Steps
- With this effect I was working on the idea of creating colour to a black and white image… without doing some kind of colourization - however, this should also work with coloured images too.
- Firstly, download this gradient. Save it somewhere easy to remember and then go into Photoshop…
- Now go -> Layers -> New Layer Fill -> Gradient -> Load… search for the gradient you just downloaded and then press OK
- Locate your layers pallet and then the drop down menu which says “Normal” - change that to “Lighten”… and just to the right of it change the opacity to 78% and close to that change the fill to 77%
- Now go -> Layers -> New Adjustment Layers 0> Channel Mixer - and change your settings so they match mine: here & here. Once that’s done click OK.
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this photoshop vintage effect then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
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