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.
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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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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