Vintage photo manipulation tutorial

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In this tutorial im gona show you how to make a nice looking vintage foto, in just a couple of easy steps.  For the vintage look i used a custom shape for the border wich can be found on my deviantart page http://xaliasx.deviantart.com they are called Texture brush pack (big brushes) [download here]. The Border custom stape can also be found on my deviantart page its called
vintage border customshape.[download here]

 

 

Step 1
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Start by opening your photo to turn in to a vintage one.

Step 2
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Now make a new curves layer and adjust it, make the darker colors darker the bright ones brighter.

 

 

Step 3
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Make a new layer fill it with a yellow tone, i used :#faec04. set that layer to multiply on 80% opacity.
Now make a new layer and fill it with a dark blue, i used : #0409d4 set that layer to screen also on 80% opacity.
You might need to play around with the opacity depending on what you like and your photo but always keep them the
same, if one is on 50% put the other on 50%. I prefer both on 80%.

 

Step 4
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Now to make some vintage corners, make a new layer, take out a big default softbrush and brush the corners. Then go
to filter/blur/gaussian blur and use a radius around 70. after that you can adjust the layer opacity to your likings and use a eraser with a softbrush to remove parts you dont like so that it isnt getting to dark. Mine is set to 80% opacity.

 

Step 5
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Now nake a new layer and go to image/apply image and gaussian blur it on a distance from 0.5 to 1 no more. Then you have a blured layer, take out the eraser with a soft round brush and erase the center part, not to close to the edge, just to maintain focus on the center of the picture.

 

Step 6
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Now make a new layer, take out a grunge brush ore the texture brush you can download from my deviantart. and brush on a new layer in white. adjust the layer to a blending style that you think looks good, and lower the opacity, mine is on 65%. set to overlay.

 

Step 7
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Now you can make a square border but im gona make a rounded shape, so make a new layer and take out the customshape tool. If you downloaded the border from my deviantart load it into photoshop, and use it to draw a border in a white tone, not completly white. i used #fffef2

 

Step 8
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Make new layer, above the border and right click the layer, the select create clipping mask. Now take out the grunge/texture brush and brush a little on the layer in a light gey tone, so that the border starts looking dirty, you might wanna change the opacity i lowerd mine to about 65%.

and then your photo is done, below is the outcome.

 

Turtorial writen by Johan Schats 2012

Stylish b/w tutorial

In this tutorial i am gona explain how i made this taq,

 

To see the larger image click on them.

 

For this tutorial i used this stock image to start with,

First start of with a new document, i used 400x200 pixels for the taq.

After i made the new document, i droped in the stock image, and scaled it down to fit my taq, then i made it greyscale by pressing ctrl+shift+u. Now i have this,

Now i duplicated the stock layer, and used gaussian blur to blur it. Filter/blur/gaussianblur.

Then after i did that i hit ctrl+f a couple of times to repeat the blur filter. And now i have this,

Now i used the erasser to remove parts i did not want to look blurred. I used a small default soft brush to do this.

Now i did the same thing again, duplicated the stock layer, draged it above the blured layer and used the gaussian blur filter, only this time i did it only ones, i didnt use ctrl+f to repeat, and again i used the eraser to remove unwanted parts from the layer.

The difference is minimal, but just enough to ad a little more depth to it.

 

Then i made new layer and used the pentool to ad some stylish looking blood to it. If you dont like this look then you can skip this part.

i like the red bits in it kinda ats a artistic bloody feel to it

 

After this ive added a new layer , and i applyed the image to it. (image/apply image) This gives you a layer whit the taq merged as one on it.

 

Now what i did is i wend to filter/render/lightning effects. This opens a new window and here you can just play with the round thing you see drag it and scale it until the light lookg to your likings.

Now after this it might look way to bright in some places, so use the eraser to remove parts and clean it up. i removed al parts that where to bright.

 

And now the taq is donne

 

If you have any questions you can always use the comment box to ask them

 

Johan Schats

 

 

 

Under construction

Hi, and welcome to Art by me 4 U,

 

This blog is stil under construction, and when its finnist i you can find stuff related to making small art on your computer using Photoshop here.

 

Some of the things you are going to find here are:

 

Tutorials, PSD files, Resources like brushes, and offcourse some of my own work.

 

You can also find me on my devaint art acount you can find by clicking right HERE .

 

The idea of this blog is offcourse to show you what ive made, but also to share with you how i made it :-)

 

Some examples of what i made, and for wich i am currently working on the tutorial for are these to taqs,

 

 

 

The tutorial for the bottom taq is already posted on my Deviantart acount.

 

Hope to see you around on my blog.

 

Johan