Aged Photo

By on November 22, 2005 in Effects, Photoshop, Tutorials

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With this tutorial I am going to show you one of the ways I use to give a photo a vintage, aged look.

I am starting with this 2MP stock photo of a mannequin.

Original stock photo

1. First of all we are going to desaturate the photo. Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate or just press Ctrl+Shift+U.

2. Then we are going to add some noise to our photo. Go to Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise and use these settings (If your photo is very large you may need to add some more noise)

Photoshop filter noise settings

3. Go to Filter -> Render -> Lighting Effects. Here are the settings I used.

Photoshop filter lighting settings

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My name is Dimitris and I am from Greece. I created this blog as a learning tool for Photoshop both for other but for me as well. I am definitely no Photoshop Guru or a professional graphic designer, I am just an amateur trying to learn as much as I can about Photoshop.
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9 Responses to Aged Photo

  1. Kevin December 2, 2005 at 5:23 pm #

    Thanks! Easy to copy your technique, and it turned out great here.

  2. Dustan December 4, 2005 at 12:49 am #

    This was a great help. Very easy to use with the instructions and photos given. Thank you!

  3. KISHEN December 4, 2005 at 2:25 am #

    its nice and good

  4. hotspod December 7, 2005 at 11:39 am #

    i love the outcome of the photo, but the scratch? looks a bit strange.

    nice tut though.

  5. lianne December 11, 2005 at 8:09 am #

    This is really good, and a great effect ^^

  6. jei December 19, 2005 at 6:49 am #

    great tutorial!
    didnt’ know about the vertical grains so, thx!

  7. waddah December 21, 2005 at 2:39 am #

    It is a great effect . thanx deer

  8. Brandy January 13, 2006 at 12:54 pm #

    I cant get my lighting effects link to work…can you help me?

  9. Dimitris January 13, 2006 at 2:07 pm #

    Sorry Brandy, I can’t think of a possible reason that can cause the lighting effects filter not to work other than a corrupted installation of Photoshop.