How do we make an aging (old photo) effect to our photographs with Photoshop ?

1. Get your photo files ready,

and also the most important is the textures file which you can get by scanning a rumpled brown paper as below:

2. Duplicate your background, and change the new layer level (image>adjustment>level). In my case, i use 52, 1.44, 255
3. Give it sephia effect using the color balance tool (ctrl+b). I enter 64,-4,-73 for my sephia effect.
4. Adjust the level again (image>adjustment>level). Now I enter 34,0.89,255
5. Get your paper layer file on top your photo, and change the layer mode to ‘overlay’
6. Use the dodge and burn tool to make your photo really looks old.
8. Add some noise (filter>noise>add noise) to your photograph
7. Here’s the final result:

Submitted by Donny (d00ni_ney@hotmail.com)
nice tutorial! well made!!
it is very nice.very helpfull.thanks.
Thank you for sharing – very helpful!
this is quite cool. thanks. looks very much realistic.
Great tut! Thanks!
I’ve wanted to learn doing such things for ages! For those (fellows like me :)) who still are not quite good at Photoshop – have a look here
Old photo Effect 🙂
Photos come up pretty cool! 🙂
Great tip !!! Thanks for your help…
Is there a similar tool as the link for tool given in comment above, that makes smog overlay on photos as in here.
Great tutorial – very helpful, thanks very much for that!
excellent work.very useful thanks
that was easy…nice thanks for sharing ….keep it up..
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Great tutorial! You should also note that if you don’t have the time or equipment to start scanning paper for the texture you need, you can always use a free textures site like http://www.cgtextures.com – although it’s primarily for game textures, it’s an invaluable tool to any designer!
I will try it…thanks
hi, this tutorial is very interesting, especially for beginners like me. may I publish this tutorial on my blog? I would be very grateful if you would allow it.thanks
everything is fine, the only problem is that unfortunately picture does not bend this way.
That’s cool. very cool, thanks for sharing.
Interesting…I’ve have some photos from Angkor and I would like to apply vintage effect on it before posting it on my blog. Thanks for this!