few days ago I corresponded with a follower of the blog I wanted to dig a little More on this in the retro style and vintage editions. Without much time to devote to it, I referred directly to the old tutorials and actions of this blog and would like to leave here, especially her and in general all / as you / as a tutorial more about how to get this effect. In the end, many roads lead to Rome and this is just one more.
I hope that you find useful and most importantly, you enjoy
Alexandra:)
To begin, it is important to know that the final outcome of this issue involved two textures you already know: Let's take a look at the left frame camera and developed with ACR:
At first glance, as you can get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe differences between the two frames. We will shut down and age the color and contrast and soften the cold light providing it a warmer tone.
Our first step is to create an adjustment layer hue and saturation and desaturate all colors with a value of -50.
In this same layer you just created will double click with the mouse / pen and open a window
layer style. We will select the box color overlay
:
observe that the image is covered by a layer of gray. In the layers palette, see the changes we have implemented and will again double-click the icon overlay color effects (1). Reopen another layer style window. It will click color (2) and open the color picker where the pantone look 4535EC or any other warm tone you like for your photography. Always keep in mind, here we are editing a specific example that you should guide you to your instinct and criteria to qualify when your own work.
now, and ending now with this first part of the issue, we will give a final touch of color by adding a adjustment layer
color balance. Modify the values \u200b\u200bat -20 Yellow-Blue for the midtones, always keeping the box checked to preserve luminosity. Well, with this I'm done with the first part of this issue. At this point we know as aging and give warmth to the colors of a picture, and this is the resulting action that you can download by clicking on the image.
To speed up the process, we will apply this action to the two textures we use to finish this year giving a touch of photo paper / canvas and the typical scratches own and wear an old photograph.
To do this, I used two of my textures: gold and scrawled
insomnia. I pass the warm vintage action and resized to the same size of my photography. Once done, I'll drag these two textures on my photography as well:
Photoshop CS5, in its new interface, offers a more direct and easy to segment your screen with various presets, I usually choose the vertical segmentation and, with the visible layers palette, I drag the textures on the original photograph. then I have only to return to consolidate all I can see my picture in full screen with the two textures and layers. I have cast a very simple way:
This would result
Remember to give more emphasis on vintage effects, an interesting resource may be to smooth the edges of your photographs. I do it with rounded edges
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