Ageing A Photograph

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Steps On How To Age A Photo.

This is about taking a modern photo, making it look old. Results may vary depending o your definition of how an old photo appears. A lot of the old cameras didn’t pick up many of the shadows and highlights as with today’s modern camera. Firstly You need to create a new layer of you can work non destructively. To create an old photo image>adjustments>levels, output levels slightly drag to the right to about 43. This sucks out the shadows of the image. To give the image the authenticity of an old image image>adjustments>hue/saturation it is a colourised overlay. Click on colourise in the bottom right hand corner, your aim is to create a sepia type colour [hue;33, saturation;27, lightness -11] and press ok. Filter>noise>add noise, this is to add a bit of speckle [amount;9, ensure that uniform and monochromatic is checked off] click ok. Hold down alt/option key and press delete to create a white background, make sure white is your support colour [white as your foreground and black as the background colour]. Filter>render>fibres, your are looking for a little bit of white and a lot of black where the white is going the act as the scratches [variance;4, strength;35, for just a few scratches] click ok. Make sure layer 2 is selected, click on where it says normal [side pallet – right hand side] then select screen, basically hides all of the black. This creates a scratchy effect. Just decrease the opacity a little bit to show less scratches.

Notes
As mentioned in my step by step process, I didn't mention on the actual presentation is that when you begin each process you need to create a new layer for each step. This is so you can go back and alter particular processes with out affecting the other steps.

Reference

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-age-photos-photoshop-221859/