Applying Vintage Retro Effects on Photos

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Today with two short Photoshop Tutorials I will show you how to make a Retro Effect on your images. These artistic effects also have a vintage style effects, it makes a photo appeared like a classic image in a prime standard with Drawing Pencil Effects and Water Color Effects with the usage of some filter tools such as Gassian Blur, Noise, and Surface Blur with the clever way of using the History Brush to create the wonderful water color effect.

By pureromance88, on November 04, 2010, under Photoshop Tutorials
 

Today with two short Photoshop Tutorials I will show you how to make a Retro Effect on your images. These artistic effects also have a vintage style effects, it makes a photo appeared like a classic image in a prime standard with Drawing Pencil Effects and Water Color Effects with the usage of some filter tools such as Gassian Blur, Noise, and Surface Blur with the clever way of using the History Brush to create the wonderful water color effect.

Part I: Retro Pencil Drawing Effect

 

Final Result Preview

 
 
 
 

Step 1:

 

Duplicate your pic and turn it to black and white ( there are many ways to do it but I choose simplest one is desaturating it by Ctrl+Shift+U). Remember you should not make high contrast between black and white.

 
 

Step 2:

 

Duplicate desaturated layer. Apply Gassian Blur:

 
 

Step 3:

 

Use Add noise filter:

 
 

Step 4:

 

Then apply Brush Strokes - Angled Strokes:

 
 

Step 5:

 

Set this layer to Multipy 100%:

 
 

Step 6:

 

Duplicate it and set to Color Dodge 50%:

 
 

Step 7:

 

Create a new fill solid color with color mode 9d8e8f, set it to Multipy 100%.

 
 

Final Result:

 

With this Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial you can use any color you like . Here is result without copying desaturated layer and fill with light yellow in last step:

 
 
 
 
 
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