# Aged Photo **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 6, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407 "2004-09-06T14:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![as\_clark20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@as\_clark20](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/as_clark20)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/1 "2004-09-06T14:59:01Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/2 "2004-09-06T15:03:44Z")
[http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/tutorials.htm](http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/tutorials.htm) That site has a aged photograph tutorial ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/3 "2004-09-06T15:39:43Z")
Look for tutes on grunge… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/4 "2004-09-06T16:08:41Z")
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: ![](http://www.mlkdesign.online.fr/files/kirupa/el_original.jpg) ![](http://www.mlkdesign.online.fr/files/kirupa/el_old.jpg) 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… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/5 "2004-09-06T16:13:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/6 "2004-09-06T16:53:39Z")
sweet im gonna have to get flaming pear;) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aged-photo/63407/7 "2004-09-06T17:08:25Z")
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.