Vintage Effect Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

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.

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