Have you ever wanted to make a photo that you took look like it was old? If so, follow these steps and I will show how to turn a new photo, into an old looking one.
1. Open a picture that you would like to change
2. Click on the New Adjustment Layer button on the bottom of the Layers panel. ( The circle, half black and white)
3. Click on Hue/Saturation. Check the colorize box and set the hue to 40. Saturation will be 25.
4. Hold Alt, go up to Layers, Merge Visible
5. Rename Layer 1 to Glow
6. Filter, blur, Gaussian blur. Then, put 6.0 pixel's for the radius. Then push OK.
7. Go to Layer panel, where it says Normal, change it to Overlay. Change opacity to 70% or lower.
8. Hold Alt, push New Layer button on the Layer panel. (Next to garbage can) Name the new layer Edges.
9. Go up to Edit, Fill, and make sure to keep the color Black.Then push OK.
10. Now go to the Elliptical Marquee Tool. ( Might have to right click on the second tool down to use it) Start from the top left and drag to the bottom right. Make the circle as big as possible. Then hold Alt and push the Layer Mask button on the Layers panel. ( On the left side of the black and white circle)
11. Like in step 6, go to Filter, blur, Gaussian blur. This time, put the radius to 25 pixels. This softens the edges. Change the opacity to 35%.
12. Hold Alt and click the New Layer button. Name this new layer; Noise
13. Same as step 9.
14. Go up to filter, noise, add noise. Make the amount around 130%. Make sure Gaussian and Monochromatic are selected.
15. Change Normal to Soft Light in the Layers panel.
16. Make the opacity lower
17. One more layer to make, hold Alt, New Layer button, name it Grain.
18. Go up to Edit, fill, then black.
19. Go to filter, textures, grain. Change the intensity to 70, contrast to 80, and grain type to vertical.
20. Change Normal to Screen in the Layers panel
21.Go to New Adjustment Layer ( black and white circle) on the Layers panel, then select levels.
22. When the Levels dialog box pops up, drag the black marker to 30 output level, and the white to 235. Click OK
23. Flatten image. Save as a JPEG
Then the picture should look like an old photo.
