The new becomes old…

Posted on July 10th, 2007 in Digital, Photography by Rebel Fish

Lots of folk love to get that old-school look to their new-school photos. It’s pretty simple and only requires a couple seconds.

Take a photo.
Make it black and white or sepia.
Find a cool textured background (search for ‘old paper’ or ‘old photo’ on google).
Place the background texture above your image on a new layer in PS.
Choose “hard light” as the form of blending for the layer.
Adjust opacity to suit taste.

Here’s a quick example that took about 15 seconds:
oldphoto.jpg

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  1. Yvette said,

    on July 15th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    How do I find “hard light”? Sorry to be a rube!

    :)

  2. Rebel Fish said,

    on July 19th, 2007 at 1:06 am

    On the layers palette, under blending mode.

  3. Mark W said,

    on January 30th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Thank you so much, wasn’t sure how to get these effects correctly till now!

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