Thread: How-To: Make Your Digital Pictures Look Antique

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They look good! I like those pictures .

Thanks for the tutorial. I'm looking forward to trying this out!

Zeltino here is one that I mixed your tutorial with a few steps I use for some of my work:

Looks good Arastorm . I like it!

That's a pretty neat effect. I'm big into automation with regards to photoshop so I took the liberty of creating an "action" in photoshop based on your method.

To make it work, unzip the attached file called "antique effect" into your "photoshop actions" folder which in my case is found under the following file path:

adobe>adobe photoshop CS2>presets>photoshop actions

If you have a different version of photoshop, it may be located under a different folder.

Then load photoshop, load up the photo to be antiqued and look to find the actions pallette which is usually right next to the history pallette (see image below, green circle)

Usually the default actions are there already and you need to click on the little circle with a triangle (blue circle below) then click on "Load Actions..."

In the menu that comes up, double click on Antique Effect and it will load into your actions pallette as shown in the image below. Click the little triangle to open the sub-menu and then click on antique effect so it is highlighted as shown below.

Then simply click on the green "play" arrow button (circled in red) and all of the steps will instantly be applied to whatever image you have loaded.

You can then open as many photos as you want and apply the same set of effects by just hitting that same green play button. (just make sure antique effect is highlighted.) Photoshop also has a bunch of other actions included standard that you can load and play around with. Hope this is helpful.

EDIT... I forgot to mention, my automation does omit one step which is the one where you paint in black to make the edges look weathered. Since the effect has to be differed based on the photo, I left that step out but the rest saves you several clicks per photo.

Wow that's cool Garnisher. I'll have to check this out . Am I able to throw this up on my site (assuming I figure out how to do this)?

Yes absolutely. Feel free. If you have any questions about it, let me know.

Very nice Garnisher. The black is actually not a paint but a "burn" using the burn tool becuse of the effect you may get on other photos. I used two settings highlights, and midtones for the burn. One other thing I added was parchment overlay so that effect will happen with what ever picture you use. I can make a tutorial video if you would like to see.

Cool Arastorm. When I referred to the black paint I was referring to the step in Zeltino's tutorial as he used the paintbrush tool, but your method sounds effective also. I particularly like the strands of paper visible in the edges. Nice touch.

Thanks Garnisher we working on making old style letters for a game. The parchment is another layer that is erased using 2 - 3 brushes and used as an overlay. The strands come from a brush erase. I was thinking about adding in a crease and bubbling or rolling the edges.