Antique

          This post is going to show you how to make a regular picture look old. Most people are thinking why would you want to make your pictures look old? Well, antique photographs are more of an art peice. These photos will be awesome to look at, and it will creat new editing techniques that you can use for the future!

starting photo:

          You can really pick any picture for this edit. Just be careful because something editing people with an antique finish can be a lot harder than just outside, or an object. First step will to add slight contrast and then secondly you will want to make your photo a dark sepia. You will want this sepia to be dark brown and not light brown because of the future edits to come.

                                            contrast:                                                sepia:

          Next you will want to make your photo look grainy. You will do this by darkening your photo and then adjusting the saturation. Next I decided to lighten the picture because most old photographs were not fully developed. It left copper in the photograph creating the look below. I also decided to round the edges to personalize the photo. You do not have to do this, but if you want to it is really easy to do in paint with the shape tool. Unless you have photoshop then there is an automatic edit.

                                               grain:                 personalization:

          The fifth step will be to wash out your photo by lowering contrast and lightening your photo yet again. You are probably wondering why did you add contrast at the beginning and now you are taking it away. Because the ordering of your edits it will make a difference on how your photo looks. Next I lowered the tempurature of the photo to make sure that the copper brown wasn't to present. If the photo is too brown it will look forced.

                                           wash out:              tempurature:

          The final step is a little advance so you do not have to do this step if its too complicated for you. This step you are going to crop your photo and then over lap and rotate those croppings. This edit is easiest in photoshop, but do-able in paint. Then you need to blur the overlaped peices and this will create the effect of the photo being bent or wore-down. This is the ultimate antique photograph and hope these steps helped you understand more about old photo's!



FINAL PHOTO: