Aged Photo

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Hey all,

I’m putting together a photogallery of my friends and family and all that but I’ve decided to theme them to an aged photograph with scratches, making em look about 100+ years old. How do I MAKE scratches because all I seem to be able to find in photoshop is to remove them. I think Abobe should have foreseen that if people want to improve photographs, they’d want to artistically destroy them too.

Whats the most realistic effects for aging/scratching/dusting photos in Photoshop CS?

Any ideas?

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http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/tutorials.htm

That site has a aged photograph tutorial

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Look for tutes on grunge…

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sepia tone your images too, try to over/underexpose your pics, give them a washed out effect if you have access to it, flaming pear’s ‘Melancholytron’ is a great filter which gives this aspect:

Also once you’ve found a good scratch brushes library (the one i used here is Missm - Scratch), use brushes with dodge/burn, and use your ‘,’ and ‘.’ keys to go back and forth through the brushes so it doesn’t look repetitive…

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Many thanks,

mlk thats exactly the look I’m after!! Great one. I’ll have a trawl through the web and see what I can download.

Thanks guys.

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sweet im gonna have to get flaming pear;)

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yup and use alien skin to get a lil wrinkle in the pic and maybe dirty up the edges with a layer style inner glow with a texture to break it up.